Writing in Context
Insular Manuscript Culture 500-1200
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
192 pages
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5 3/4 x 7 2/5
Gathering essays from prominent scholars of medieval insular manuscripts, Writing in Context explores various aspects of written culture, with the emphasis on the physical appearance, including the development of insular scripts, book culture in Mercia, the layout of Anglo-Saxon charters, and the transition from Anglo-Saxon to Norman-inspired script and book production. Ultimately, the book highlights, in different ways, the relationship between the paleographical and codicological features of manuscripts and the culture in which the objects were produced and used.
Elaine Treharne | Stanford University
"This collection represents a very valuable contribution to our understanding of early book history in its most capacious sense."
Jonathan Wilcox | University of Iowa
"This is a strong collection of essays. The broad topic of the materiality of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman manuscripts is capacious enough to happily embrace the diversity on offer here and yet tight enough to give some kind of chronological, geographical, and methodological cohesion. . . . All in all, this is an interesting volume that contributes to a burgeoning field of manuscript materiality in relation to medieval studies."
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