By Nigel J. Morgan
ISBN-10: 052178218X
ISBN-13: 9780521782180
This is often the 1st background of the e-book in Britain from the Norman Conquest until eventually the early 15th century. The twenty-six professional individuals to this quantity speak about the manuscript ebook from quite a few angles: as actual item (manufacture, layout, writing and decoration); its function and readership (books for monasteries, for the Church's liturgy, for basic and complicated guideline, for courtly entertainment); and because the car for certain types of textual content (history, sermons, clinical treatises, legislations and management, music). In all of this, the wider, altering social and cultural context is saved in brain, and so are many of the connections with continental Europe. the quantity contains a complete bibliography and eighty black and white plates.
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17 Richard of Bury, Philobiblon. 9 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 The roles of books of canon law to Christ Church, Canterbury. 18 It sounds as though he was dividing his wealth where it would be most appreciated. Thomas Farnelow (d. 1379) had been a member of Balliol and afterwards bursar of Merton, and he went on to become chancellor of York from 1369. 19 Stephen de Kettelberghe (d. 20 Simon Holbeche (d. 1335) was a medical doctor who had been a member of both Oxford and Cambridge universities.
If so, that is significant in the present chapter, since for most of his medieval audience it would be an extremely rare glimpse of a real book, even if only the binding was visible. One can assume that the congregation in a parish church in the Middle Ages would have had a distant view of books in use by the clergy. A Missal is physically 25 D’Avray 1980; and ch. 13 (1) below. 26 Jacobus de Voragine, Golden Legend, ii, p. 49. 27 Lewis 1987, p. 63, fig. 28. 28 Saint Paul preaching is a standard subject for the Epistles in thirteenth-century Bibles as in Survey, iv, nos.
28–33 and Brand 2000. Suggett 1946 documents continued use of French in the first half of the fifteenth century. 31 Dean and Boulton 1999, no. 696. 32 Anglo-Norman Holkham Bible; Dean and Boulton 1999, no. 472. 33 Berndt 1969, 1972, 1976 discusses the linguistic situation from the Conquest to the fifteenth century from the sociological viewpoint of class usage. Short 1979, Legge 1980 and Kibbee 1991 exclusively discuss the use of Anglo-Norman. 34 Richter 1979, pp. 206–17, gives a list of the witnesses and the languages used, and as a summary in Richter 2000.
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