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Scraped, Stroked, and Bound: Materially Engaged Readings of Medieval Manuscripts (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 23) - Hardcover

 
9782503545493: Scraped, Stroked, and Bound: Materially Engaged Readings of Medieval Manuscripts (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 23)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 2503545491 ISBN 13: 9782503545493
Publisher: Brepols Pub, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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Review

"...the volume does manage to 'enact the value of crossing scholarly and artisanal boundaries, of engaging manuscripts with a full sense of their materiality.' It convincingly argues that a material reading of manuscripts is essential to their full understanding and proper interpretation, and will hopefully lead to several further studies on the same subject." --Tjamke Snijders, The Medieval Review

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Publisher
Brepols Pub
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
2503545491
ISBN 13 
9782503545493
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
240
Editor
Wilcox Jonathan