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Textual Situations : Three Medieval Manuscripts and Their Readers / Andrew Taylor.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Material TextsPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) : 32 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812236422
  • 9781512808001
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 091/.0942 22
LOC classification:
  • Z106.5.G7 T39 2002eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Medieval Materials -- 2. Bodleian MS Digby 23 -- Interstice: The Minstrel and the Book -- 3. British Library MS Harley 978 -- 4. British Library MS Royal IO.E.4 -- 5. The Manuscript as Fetish -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Discography/Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: Generations of scholars have meditated upon the literary devices and cultural meanings of The Song of Roland. But according to Andrew Taylor not enough attention has been given to the physical context of the manuscript itself. The original copy of The Song of Roland is actually bound with a Latin translation of the Timaeus.Textual Situations looks at this bound volume along with two other similarly bound medieval volumes to explore the manuscripts and marginalia that have been cast into shadow by the fame of adjacent texts, some of the most read medieval works. In addition to the bound volume that contains The Song of Roland, Taylor examines the volume that binds the well-known poem "Sumer is icumen in" with the Lais of Marie de France, and a volume containing the legal Decretals of Gregory IX with marginal illustrations of wayfaring life decorating its borders.Approaching the manuscript as artifact, Textual Situations suggests that medieval texts must be examined in terms of their material support-that is, literal interpretation must take into consideration the physical manuscript itself in addition to the social conventions that surround its compilation. Taylor reconstructs the circumstances of the creation of these medieval bound volumes, the settings in which they were read, inscribed, and shared, and the social and intellectual conventions surrounding them.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Medieval Materials -- 2. Bodleian MS Digby 23 -- Interstice: The Minstrel and the Book -- 3. British Library MS Harley 978 -- 4. British Library MS Royal IO.E.4 -- 5. The Manuscript as Fetish -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Discography/Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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Generations of scholars have meditated upon the literary devices and cultural meanings of The Song of Roland. But according to Andrew Taylor not enough attention has been given to the physical context of the manuscript itself. The original copy of The Song of Roland is actually bound with a Latin translation of the Timaeus.Textual Situations looks at this bound volume along with two other similarly bound medieval volumes to explore the manuscripts and marginalia that have been cast into shadow by the fame of adjacent texts, some of the most read medieval works. In addition to the bound volume that contains The Song of Roland, Taylor examines the volume that binds the well-known poem "Sumer is icumen in" with the Lais of Marie de France, and a volume containing the legal Decretals of Gregory IX with marginal illustrations of wayfaring life decorating its borders.Approaching the manuscript as artifact, Textual Situations suggests that medieval texts must be examined in terms of their material support-that is, literal interpretation must take into consideration the physical manuscript itself in addition to the social conventions that surround its compilation. Taylor reconstructs the circumstances of the creation of these medieval bound volumes, the settings in which they were read, inscribed, and shared, and the social and intellectual conventions surrounding them.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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