Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Figures IX
4. Editorial Principles XVII
5. Preface and Acknowledgments XIX
6. Introduction 1
7. Part 1: Constructing Bodies of Knowledge
8. 1. Juridical Late Medieval Paratexts and the Growth of European Jurisprudence 21
9. 2. Prefaces in Canon Law Books 46
10. 3. “Depingo ut ostendam, depictum ita est expositio:” Diagrams as an Indispensable Complement to the Cosmological Teaching of the Liber Nemroth de astronomia 56
11. Part 2: Negotiating Tradition, Creating Practice
12. 4. From Text to Diagram: Giambattista Da Monte and the Practice of Medicine 95
13. 5. Immortal Souls and an Angel Intellect: Some Thoughts on the Function and Meaning of Christian Iconography in Medieval Aristotle Textbooks 117
14. 6. Writing in the Margin – Drawing in the Margin: Reading Practices of Medieval Jurists 141
15. 7. Structuring, Stressing, or Recasting Knowledge on the Page? Rubrication in the Manuscript Copies of the Pèlerinage de l’âme by Guillaume de Deguileville 160
16. Part 3: Framing Knowledge, Empowering Readers
17. 8. From Troy to Aachen: Ancient Rome and the Carolingian Reception of Vergil 185
18. 9. Translating Prologues and Prologue Illustration in French Historical Texts 197
19. 10. Paratext and the Politics of Conquest: Questing Knights and Colonial Rule in Le Canarien 224
20. 11. Prologues and Frontispieces in Prose Romance Manuscripts 247
21. Part 4: Appropriating Tradition, Expressing Ownership, Embodying the Book
22. 12. Visualizing Pontifical Power: Paratextual Elements in Some French Liturgical Books, Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries 267
23. 13. Paratext in the Manuscripts of Hartmann Schedel 289
24. 14. Book Material, Production, and Use from the Point of View of the Paratext 304
25. List of Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions Cited 331
26. Bibliography 339
27. Notes on Contributors and Editors 381
28. Index 387