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Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences

  • Edited by: Antonella Brita , Janina Karolewski , Matthieu Husson , Laure Miolo and Hanna Wimmer
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2024
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Throughout history, manuscripts have been made and used for religious, artistic, and scientific performances, and this practice continues in most cultures today. By focusing on the role manuscripts have in different kinds of performances, this volume contributes to the evolving field of investigating written artefacts and their functions.
The collected essays regard manuscripts as points of intersection where textual, material, and performative aspects converge. The contributors analyse manuscripts in their forms and functions as well as their positioning in the performances for which they were made. These aspects unfold across the volume’s three sections, examining how manuscripts are (1) used backstage, for preparing and giving instructions for performances; (2) taken onstage, contributing to the enactment of performances; and (3) performers in their own right, producing an effect on the audience.
The diversified, interdisciplinary, and innovative methodologies of the included papers carry great potential to expand the traditional approaches of manuscript studies and find application outside the contributors’ respective fields.

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Antonella Brita, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy; Janina Karolewski, Universität Hamburg, Germany; Matthieu Husson, CNRS SYRTE PSL-Observatoire de Paris, France; Laure Miolo, University of Oxford, UK; Hanna Wimmer, Universität Hamburg, Germany.


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Antonella Brita, Janina Karolewski, Matthieu Husson, Laure Miolo and Hanna Wimmer
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Manuscripts for Performances

Alexander Weinstock and Martin Jörg Schäfer
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Mathieu Ossendrijver
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Eva Ferro
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Agathe Keller
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Laure Miolo
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Manuscripts in Performances

Karen Desmond
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Matthieu Husson and Samuel Gessner
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Jochen H. Vennebusch
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Karin Becker
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Silpsupa Jaengsawang
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Manuscripts as Performers

Laura Fernández Fernández
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Antonella Brita
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Heidi Buck-Albulet
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Laura Albiero
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Felix Heinzer
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eBook published on:
December 4, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9783111343556
Hardcover published on:
December 4, 2023
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111343471
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
6
Main content:
520
Illustrations:
26
Coloured Illustrations:
83
Coloured Line drawings:
5
Tables:
7
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