Performative Aspects of Assyrian Celestial Divination and Babylonian Astronomical Diaries

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Manuscripts for Performances
5. Making and Using Manuscripts in Theatre: The Material Dynamics of Two Nineteenth- Century Nathan der Weise Prompt Books 17
6. Performative Aspects of Assyrian Celestial Divination and Babylonian Astronomical Diaries 39
7. Pocket-Sized Liturgy: A Fifteenth-Century Breviary from the Abbey of San Zeno Maggiore 55
8. Performing Multiplications Beyond the Text of Some Sanskrit Mathematical Commentaries 73
9. A Bibliophile Performing Eclipse Computations: Lewis Caerleon and His Notebook 117
10. Manuscripts in Performances
11. Medieval Music Rolls, Scribes and Performance: The Extant Rolls of Thirteenth- Century English Polyphony 189
12. Astronomical Computation as a Performance: Determining Planetary Positions with the Manuscript Erfurt, Angermuseum, 3134 211
13. The ‘Orchestration’ of Manuscripts: Ottonian Gospel Books from Bamberg Cathedral and Their Liturgical Use 241
14. Reading the Psalms: The Relationship between Visual Organisation and Ritual in Medieval Latin Psalter Manuscripts 273
15. The Use of Anisong Manuscripts at Funerals in Northern Thailand and Laos 303
16. Manuscripts as Performers
17. The Palace as ‘Theatre of Knowledge’: Performing with Manuscripts in the Alfonsine Court 337
18. Performing (with) Multiple-Text Manuscripts in the Making of the Ethiopian Sainthood: Matter and Devotion in Ethiopia between the Fourteenth Century and the Present Time 371
19. Performing Renga with Manuscripts 425
20. Liturgical Practice in the Light of Medieval Liturgical Books 453
21. Objects or Actors? Medieval Latin Manuscripts in Ritual Performances 471
22. Contributors 511
23. Index of Written Artefacts 515