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Franciscan Books and their Readers : Friars and Manuscripts in Late Medieval Italy / René Hernández.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789048544981
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 091.0945/3210902 23//eng/20220518eng
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Transcriptions -- Introduction -- 1. The Ideal: Regulations and Franciscan Manuscripts in Padua -- 2. The Space: Libraries and Franciscan Manuscripts in Padua -- 3. The Form: The Manuscripts -- 4. The Readership: Reading Franciscan Manuscripts in Padua -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The book explores the manuscripts written, read, and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in Northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and readership. The ideal is studied through the regulations that determined what manuscripts should aim for. Space refers to the development and role of Franciscan libraries. The form is revealed by the assessment of the physical configuration of a set of representative manuscripts read, written, and manufactured by the friars. Finally, the study of the readership shows how Franciscans were skilled readers who employed certain forms of the manuscript as a portable, personal library, and as a tool for learning and pastoral care. By comparing the book collections of Padua’s reformed and unreformed medieval Franciscan libraries for the first time, this study reveals new features of the ground-breaking cultural agency of medieval friars.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Transcriptions -- Introduction -- 1. The Ideal: Regulations and Franciscan Manuscripts in Padua -- 2. The Space: Libraries and Franciscan Manuscripts in Padua -- 3. The Form: The Manuscripts -- 4. The Readership: Reading Franciscan Manuscripts in Padua -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Bibliography -- Index

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The book explores the manuscripts written, read, and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in Northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and readership. The ideal is studied through the regulations that determined what manuscripts should aim for. Space refers to the development and role of Franciscan libraries. The form is revealed by the assessment of the physical configuration of a set of representative manuscripts read, written, and manufactured by the friars. Finally, the study of the readership shows how Franciscans were skilled readers who employed certain forms of the manuscript as a portable, personal library, and as a tool for learning and pastoral care. By comparing the book collections of Padua’s reformed and unreformed medieval Franciscan libraries for the first time, this study reveals new features of the ground-breaking cultural agency of medieval friars.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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