Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book Production in the Douce Piers Plowman (Medieval Cultures, V. 15) - Hardcover

Despres, Denise Louise

 
9780816629763: Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book Production in the Douce Piers Plowman (Medieval Cultures, V. 15)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0816629765 ISBN 13: 9780816629763
Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Oxford Bodleian Library Douce 104 is the only extant manuscript of William Langland's fourteenth-century poem Piers Plowman that is both illustrated and annotated, thereby providing material evidence of interpretation by professional readers - the artists, scribes, and annotators who constructed the work's meaning in an early fifteenth-century Anglo-Irish colonial context.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Denise L. Despres examine this evidence for what it can tell us about the politics of late-medieval manuscript preparation and the scholarly direction of manuscript use. A study of great significance for medieval scholars, Iconography and the Professional Reader forcefully argues the importance of professional readers and utility-grade manuscripts in comprehending the meditative, mnemonic, performative, and subversive nature of late-medieval reading.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton is professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University.

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Verlag
University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0816629765
ISBN 13 
9780816629763
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
268
Herausgeber
Kerby-Fulton Kathryn
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