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The dimension and layout of books containing Old English

Abstract

In the final chapter in the book Donald Scragg focuses on the very practical issue of the size and the layout of Old English manuscripts from the eighth century to the first half of the twelfth, in order to explore the role of books in the transmission of thought, knowledge and practical experiences of the age. The chapter considers how the dimensions of surviving books can give clues ‘about their intended use, about how they were created and about what that may tell us about the role of the written vernacular in the society of early England’.

Abstract

In the final chapter in the book Donald Scragg focuses on the very practical issue of the size and the layout of Old English manuscripts from the eighth century to the first half of the twelfth, in order to explore the role of books in the transmission of thought, knowledge and practical experiences of the age. The chapter considers how the dimensions of surviving books can give clues ‘about their intended use, about how they were created and about what that may tell us about the role of the written vernacular in the society of early England’.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of figures vii
  4. List of tables ix
  5. List of contributors x
  6. List of abbreviations xi
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Part I Anthologies of Knowledge
  9. 1 Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books 23
  10. 2 Knowledge of the weather in the Middle Ages 53
  11. 3 The Cambridge Songs as anthology of musical knowledge 79
  12. 4 Cristes leorningcnihtas 97
  13. 5 Seeing Jerusalem 116
  14. 6 The emergence of devotion to the name of Jesus in the West 142
  15. 7 ‘Ther are bokes ynowe’ 163
  16. Part III Past and Present
  17. 8 Meet the pagans 185
  18. 9 Reading and writing St Margaret of Scotland from Turgot’s Vita to the Blackadder Prayerbook 210
  19. Part IV Knowledge and Materiality
  20. 10 The Jellinge Stone 235
  21. 11 Mise en page 252
  22. Index 280
Aspects of knowledge
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Aspects of knowledge
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526107015.00022

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of figures vii
  4. List of tables ix
  5. List of contributors x
  6. List of abbreviations xi
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Part I Anthologies of Knowledge
  9. 1 Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books 23
  10. 2 Knowledge of the weather in the Middle Ages 53
  11. 3 The Cambridge Songs as anthology of musical knowledge 79
  12. 4 Cristes leorningcnihtas 97
  13. 5 Seeing Jerusalem 116
  14. 6 The emergence of devotion to the name of Jesus in the West 142
  15. 7 ‘Ther are bokes ynowe’ 163
  16. Part III Past and Present
  17. 8 Meet the pagans 185
  18. 9 Reading and writing St Margaret of Scotland from Turgot’s Vita to the Blackadder Prayerbook 210
  19. Part IV Knowledge and Materiality
  20. 10 The Jellinge Stone 235
  21. 11 Mise en page 252
  22. Index 280
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