International standard book number
9781107636767
Shelfmark
Qc.2
Title
The Cambridge history of the book in Britain. Volume 2, 1100-1400 / edited by Nigel J. Morgan and Rodney M. Thomson.
Edition
1st paperback ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Physical description
xxiv, 615 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English.
Note
First published: 2008.
Note
Publisher's paperback covers.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Preface / The roles of books -- Books and society / Language and literacy / Book production -- The format of books -- Layout and presentation of the text / Technology of production of the manuscript book -- Parchment and paper, ruling and ink / Illumination -- Bookbindings / Handwriting in English books / Monastic and cathedral book production / Urban production of manuscript books and the role of the university towns / Readership, libraries, texts and contexts -- Library catalogues and indexes / University and monastic texts -- Biblical exegesis, theology, and philosophy / Latin learning and Latin literature / Encyclopaedias / Law / Books for the liturgy and private prayer / Compilations for preaching and Lollard literature -- Compilations for preaching / Lollard literature / Spiritual writings and religious instruction / Vernacular literature and its readership -- The Anglo-Norman book / Middle English literary writings, 1150-1400 / The Welsh book / History and history books / Archive books / Scientific and medical writings -- The introduction of scientific texts into Britain, c. 1100-1250 / University books and the sciences, c.1250-1400 / Music / Illustration and ornament / Rodney M. Thomson and Nigel Morgan -- Christopher de Hamel -- Rodney M. Thomson and Nigel Morgan -- M.B. Parkes -- Rodney M. Thomson -- Michael Gullick and Nicholas Hadgraft -- M.B. Parkes -- Rodney M. Thomson -- M.A. Michael -- Richard Sharpe -- Jeremy Catto -- Jan Ziolkowski -- Michael Twomey -- Nigel Ramsay -- Nigel Morgan -- Alan J. Fletcher -- Anne Hudson -- Alexandra Barratt -- Tony Hunt -- Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards -- Daniel Huws -- Geoffrey Martin and Rodney M. Thomson -- Nigel Ramsay -- Charles Burnett -- Peter Murray Jones -- Nicolas Bell -- Martin Kauffmann.
Summary, etc.
Summary: 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.
Subject
Books Great Britain History 400-1450.
Added entry--name
Morgan, Nigel J. editor.
Added entry--name
Thomson, Rodney M. editor.
Added entry--name
Cambridge University Press publisher.
Added entry--place
England Cambridge.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B53121