Scraped, Stroked, and Bound
Materially Engaged Readings of Medieval Manuscripts
Edited by Jonathan Wilcox
This collection of essays makes an original contribution to medieval manuscript studies through deep engagement with the material side of book creation. The volume brings together major scholars of medieval manuscripts with leading contemporary book artists. The result is a groundbreaking collection which will be of interest both for
This collection of essays makes an original contribution to medieval manuscript studies through deep engagement with the material side of book creation. The volume brings together major scholars of medieval manuscripts with leading contemporary book artists. The result is a ground-breaking collection which will be of interest both for its methodological implications and for the insights that the case studies provide. In a sequence of interconnected essays, experts in the field of literature, history, art, and manuscript studies enact readings of medieval manuscripts that incorporate extreme attention to the materiality of the object of their study. While the digital revolution has provided unparalleled visual access to medieval manuscripts, these essays are attentive to what has got left behind-not just the aura of the original, but also the engagement of the other senses, such as the feel of the binding, the heft of the volume, the smell of the parchment, or the sound of the pages. By bringing together experienced medievalist scholars with practicing book artists of today, this volume brings back an artisanal sense of the complete book to an understanding of medieval manuscripts.
Epigraphs Contents Acknowledgements List of Plates and Figures Introduction - JONATHAN WILCOX Scribes in Action Anglo-Saxon Scribal Habitus and Frankish Aesthetics in an Early Uncial Manuscript - MATTHEW T. HUSSEY On the Nature of Matched Scribal Hands - PATRICK W. CONNER A Modern Scribe Views Scribes of the Past - CHERYL JACOBSEN Substrata: Skin and Paper Parchment Production: A Brief Account - JESSE MEYER Unruly Reading: The Consuming Role of Touch in the Experience of a Medieval Manuscript - JENNIFER BORLAND Parchment, Paper, and Artisanal Research Techniques - TIMOTHY BARRETT Structure Material Quality of Medieval Bookbindings - GARY FROST The East-West, Then-Now Binding Nexus - ELSI VASSDAL ELLIS The Cistercian Manuscript, Trent 1711, Version One and Its Exemplar - CONSTANCE H. BERMAN The Whole Book Dismembering and Reconstructing MS Durham, Cathedral Library, A.IV.19 - KAREN LOUISE JOLLY "Lymned to his awne vse": The Illuminated Realm of John Lacy, Book Artisan and Anchorite, in MS Oxford, St. John's College Library, 94 - MARTHA RUST Plates List of Contributors and Participants
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Accounts and Accountability in Late Medieval Europe
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Digital Philology and Quantitative Criticism of Medieval Literature
Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature II
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Transforming the Medieval World
Uses of Pragmatic Literacy in the Middle Ages (A CD-ROM and Book)
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Spoken and Written Language
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Epigraphic Literacy and Christian Identity
Modes of Written Discourse in the Newly Christian European North
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Ruling the Script in the Middle Ages
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Diplomatics in the Netherlands
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Sins of the Tongue in the Medieval West
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