The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107636760 ISBN 13: 9781107636767

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This is the first history of the book in Britain from the Norman Conquest until the early fifteenth century. The twenty-six expert contributors to this volume discuss the manuscript book from a variety of angles: as physical object (manufacture, format, writing and decoration); its purpose and readership (books for monasteries, for the Church's liturgy, for elementary and advanced instruction, for courtly entertainment); and as the vehicle for particular types of text (history, sermons, medical treatises, law and administration, music). In all of this, the broader, changing social and cultural context is kept in mind, and so are the various connections with continental Europe. The volume includes a full bibliography and 80 black and white plates.

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About the Authors

Nigel J. Morgan is Honorary Professor of the History of Art at the University of Cambridge and Emeritus Professor at the University of Oslo.

Rodney M. Thomson is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Tasmania.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107636760
• ISBN 13: 9781107636767
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 640
• Editor: Morgan Nigel J.