Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences
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Edited by:
Antonella Brita
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
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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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - Manuscripts for Performances
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Making and Using Manuscripts in Theatre: The Material Dynamics of Two Nineteenth- Century Nathan der Weise Prompt Books
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Performative Aspects of Assyrian Celestial Divination and Babylonian Astronomical Diaries
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Pocket-Sized Liturgy: A Fifteenth-Century Breviary from the Abbey of San Zeno Maggiore
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Performing Multiplications Beyond the Text of Some Sanskrit Mathematical Commentaries
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A Bibliophile Performing Eclipse Computations: Lewis Caerleon and His Notebook
117 - Manuscripts in Performances
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Medieval Music Rolls, Scribes and Performance: The Extant Rolls of Thirteenth- Century English Polyphony
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Astronomical Computation as a Performance: Determining Planetary Positions with the Manuscript Erfurt, Angermuseum, 3134
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The ‘Orchestration’ of Manuscripts: Ottonian Gospel Books from Bamberg Cathedral and Their Liturgical Use
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Reading the Psalms: The Relationship between Visual Organisation and Ritual in Medieval Latin Psalter Manuscripts
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The Use of Anisong Manuscripts at Funerals in Northern Thailand and Laos
303 - Manuscripts as Performers
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The Palace as ‘Theatre of Knowledge’: Performing with Manuscripts in the Alfonsine Court
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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
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Performing Renga with Manuscripts
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Liturgical Practice in the Light of Medieval Liturgical Books
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Objects or Actors? Medieval Latin Manuscripts in Ritual Performances
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Contributors
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Index of Written Artefacts
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