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Manchester University Press, Manchester
Front matter; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Anthologies of Knowledge; Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission; Knowledge of the...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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Front matter; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Anthologies of Knowledge; Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission; Knowledge of the weather in the Middle Ages: Libellus de disposicione totius anni futuri; The Cambridge Songs as anthology of musical knowledge; Part II Transmission of Christian Traditions; Cristes leorningcnihtas: traditions of the apostles in Old English literature; Seeing Jerusalem: schematic views of the Holy City, 1100-1300 The emergence of devotion to the name of Jesus in the West'Ther are bokes ynowe': texts and the ambiguities of knowledge in Piers Plowman; Part III Past and Present; Meet the pagans: on the misuse of Beowulf in Andreas; Reading and writing St Margaret of Scotland from Turgot's Vita to the Blackadder Prayerbook; Part IV Knowledge and Materiality; The Jellinge Stone: from prehistoric monument to petrified 'book'; Mise en page: the dimension and layout of books containing Old English; Index This book investigates the role of 'texts' - including books, maps, stones and caskets - in the conveyance and transformation of knowledge and ideas throughout the Middle Ages. It contains original contributions by leading medievalists, who explore the topic from different yet complementary angles, offering diverse interdisciplinary and multi-cultural approaches on a wide variety of subjects
