European Book in the Twelfth Century, EPUB eBook

European Book in the Twelfth Century EPUB

Edited by Erik Kwakkel, Rodney Thomson

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The 'long twelfth century' (1075-1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration.

This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' as its point of departure to provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of Western Europe.

Written by senior scholars, chapters are divided into three sections: the technical aspects of making books; the processes and practices of reading and keeping books; and the transmission of texts in the disciplines that saw significant change in the period, including medicine, law, philosophy, liturgy, and theology.

Richly illustrated, the volume provides the first in-depth account of book production as a European phenomenon.

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