medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
For those of you interested who may not have seen the publishers'
announcement:
Manuscripts Changing Hands, edited by Corine Schleif and Volker Schier
and published by Harrassowitz, contains expanded versions of
presentations from a symposium held at the Herzog August Bibliothek in
Wolfenbüttel. The authors are Madeline Caviness, Nancy van Deusen,
Matthias Eifler, Barbara Haggh-Huglo, Hiram Kümper, Judith Oliver,
Corine Schleif, Volker Schier, Gabriela Signori, and Alison Stones.
Medieval manuscripts were conceived to move from one pair of hands to
the next. Holding a book presented possibilities, and possessing a book
implied power. Thus, books functioned as potent connectors. They bound
producers with consumers, givers with recipients, writers with readers,
writers with writers, and readers with readers. Books linked many
generations and were intended to last. Hands attached messages in
colophons, prayers, scribal notes, glosses, word plays, self-images, and
other inserted materials. Hands also left traces in the form of penciled
users’ names, threats, curses, corrections, erasures, worn and torn
pages, finger prints, and dirt.
Contributors to this collection of essays analyze the ways in which the
manuscript medium served and challenged communication. Sensorial
empathies helped to construct communal identities that overcame barriers
of time, class and calling. Diachronic communities formed around books
in both men’s and women’s monasteries. Librarians, collectors, and
makers of facsimiles strove to preserve these hand-made, handed down
objects. The volume reflects current issues relating to actor network
theory and eco-critical concerns. It appears at the moment in which
transient virtual media are replacing enduring material objects as means
of communication.
Additional information can be found on the publisher’s website:
https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_1238.ahtml
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