Introduction: History, Manuscripts, Making
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Johannes Junge Ruhland
Abstract
This chapter introduces the volume by presenting key concepts and outlining contributions. Starting from the observation that various features of medieval manuscripts give material shape to the images of history with which manuscript makers worked, it explores the interrelation of concepts, medium, and practices in manuscripts dealing with history. In addition to being informed by ideas about history, manuscripts could serve to form and modify such ideas by drawing on the practices and conventions of making and using manuscripts of the milieus that produced and held them. With examples from Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi and the Grandes chroniques de France, it makes the case for the centrality of the manuscript medium and the makers of manuscripts in bringing into shape ideas about time, history, and meaning.
Abstract
This chapter introduces the volume by presenting key concepts and outlining contributions. Starting from the observation that various features of medieval manuscripts give material shape to the images of history with which manuscript makers worked, it explores the interrelation of concepts, medium, and practices in manuscripts dealing with history. In addition to being informed by ideas about history, manuscripts could serve to form and modify such ideas by drawing on the practices and conventions of making and using manuscripts of the milieus that produced and held them. With examples from Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi and the Grandes chroniques de France, it makes the case for the centrality of the manuscript medium and the makers of manuscripts in bringing into shape ideas about time, history, and meaning.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Contents VII
- Abbreviations IX
- List of Figures XI
- Notes on Contributors XVII
- Introduction: History, Manuscripts, Making 1
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I Strategies of Production
- Assemblages and History in a Medieval French Manuscript from Corbie, ca. 1295: Copenhagen, Kongelige Biblioteket, GKS 487 f° 23
- Writing with the Book: History through the Codex and the Materiality of Autography 47
- Miscellanies of Histories: Perception of the Past and Historiographical Agency of Late Medieval Compilers 71
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II The Stakes of Adaptation
- Writing History with Bede’s Martyrology, 800–1200 95
- Adaptation and Affect in Orderic Vitalis’s Historia ecclesiastica 117
- From Little Egypt to Zurich: Chronicling Romani Immigrants with Late Medieval Manuscripts 141
- Making History in the Renaissance with Medieval Manuscripts: Jean Le Féron and the Grandes chroniques de France 171
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III Configuring History
- Medieval Monastic Manuscripts after the Middle Ages: The Case of St. Nikolaus in undis at Strasbourg 199
- History Branches Out: Narrative and Chronology in Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 147 225
- Fabulous History: Painting History in Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, MS 5069 253
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IV Response
- Making History with Manuscripts: Response 287
- General Index 303
- Manuscripts Cited 315
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Contents VII
- Abbreviations IX
- List of Figures XI
- Notes on Contributors XVII
- Introduction: History, Manuscripts, Making 1
-
I Strategies of Production
- Assemblages and History in a Medieval French Manuscript from Corbie, ca. 1295: Copenhagen, Kongelige Biblioteket, GKS 487 f° 23
- Writing with the Book: History through the Codex and the Materiality of Autography 47
- Miscellanies of Histories: Perception of the Past and Historiographical Agency of Late Medieval Compilers 71
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II The Stakes of Adaptation
- Writing History with Bede’s Martyrology, 800–1200 95
- Adaptation and Affect in Orderic Vitalis’s Historia ecclesiastica 117
- From Little Egypt to Zurich: Chronicling Romani Immigrants with Late Medieval Manuscripts 141
- Making History in the Renaissance with Medieval Manuscripts: Jean Le Féron and the Grandes chroniques de France 171
-
III Configuring History
- Medieval Monastic Manuscripts after the Middle Ages: The Case of St. Nikolaus in undis at Strasbourg 199
- History Branches Out: Narrative and Chronology in Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 147 225
- Fabulous History: Painting History in Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, MS 5069 253
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IV Response
- Making History with Manuscripts: Response 287
- General Index 303
- Manuscripts Cited 315
