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Roman Liturgy And Frankish Creativity - The Early Medieval Manuscripts Of The Ordines Romani

by Arthur Westwell

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 Arthur Westwell closely examines the manuscripts of the Ordines Romani and reveals the surprising creativity of their compilers. His study addresses changes and reinterpretations of ritual texts before print, using manuscripts to shed new light on how medieval churchmen read and used the scripts for religious ceremonies.
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Roman Liturgy And Frankish Creativity - The Early Medieval Manuscripts Of The Ordines Romani

by Arthur (Universitat Regensburg, Germany) Westwell

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 Arthur Westwell closely examines the manuscripts of the Ordines Romani and reveals the surprising creativity of their compilers. His study addresses changes and reinterpretations of ritual texts before print, using manuscripts to shed new light on how medieval churchmen read and used the scripts for religious ceremonies.
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Illuminating The Word In The Early Middle Ages

by Lawrence (University Of Delaware) Nees

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 The array of features we take for granted in modern print and digital books â€" fonts, word spacing, capitalisation â€" were all invented in the early medieval period. This richly illustrated study tells how the impetus lay in changes to late Roman reading practices and not, as often assumed, within non-classical sources.
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Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books - Continuities Of Reading In The English Reformation

by Margaret (University Of St Andrews, Scotland) Connolly

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 Investigating the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, and the members of the Tudor gentry family who owned them, reveals an unexpectedly strong interest in works of the past, and the continuing intellectual and domestic importance of medieval manuscripts in an age of print.
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The Renaissance Reform Of The Book And Britain - The English Quattrocento

by David (University Of Kent, Canterbury) Rundle

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 The definitive study of humanist script in England before 1509, this book also provides an important re-interpretation of the success of Renaissance humanism. It introduces a range of Dutch, German, English and Scottish scribes in demonstrating humanism's cosmopolitanism.
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The Renaissance Reform Of The Book And Britain - The English Quattrocento

by David (University Of Kent, Canterbury) Rundle

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 The definitive study of humanist script in England before 1509, this book also provides an important re-interpretation of the success of Renaissance humanism. It introduces a range of Dutch, German, English and Scottish scribes in demonstrating humanism's cosmopolitanism.
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Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books - Continuities Of Reading In The English Reformation

by Margaret (University Of St Andrews, Scotland) Connolly

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 Investigating the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, and the members of the Tudor gentry family who owned them, reveals an unexpectedly strong interest in works of the past, and the continuing intellectual and domestic importance of medieval manuscripts in an age of print.
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The Production Of Books In England 1350â€“1500

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 This book gathers the best work on manuscript books in England made during this crucial but neglected period. A wide-ranging and innovative series of essays, this volume is a major contribution to the history of the book from the first commercial guilds to the advent of print.
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Women As Scribes - Book Production And Monastic Reform In Twelfth-Century Bavaria

by Alison I. (College Of William And Mary, Virginia) Beach

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 This is a study of the role of female scribes at three different religious communities in Bavaria in the twelfth century. It shows how the women's work - in extending the increased intellectual activity of the scriptoria - supported the revival of the monastic reform movements of that period.
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The Bobbio Missal - Liturgy And Religious Culture In Merovingian Gaul

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 The Bobbio Missal, written around the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century, is one of the most intriguing liturgical manuscripts to have been produced in Merovingian Francia. This book draws together a wide range of specialist knowledge to provide a major re-evaluation of this complex manuscript.
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The Palaeography Of Gothic Manuscript Books - From The Twelfth To The Early Sixteenth Century

by Albert Derolez

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 This book, first published in 2003, is a detailed survey of book scripts used in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530. Illustrated with hundreds of examples of the hands discussed, this book is an essential guide for those studying the manuscripts of the period and an invaluable reference work for scholars.
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Cultural Interplay In The Eighth Century - The Trier Gospels And The Makings Of A Scriptorium At Echternach

by Nancy Netzer

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 This is the first detailed study of the Trier Gospels, an important early medieval manuscript. Through an original analysis of the manuscript and its creation, Netzer sheds new light on early medieval book production, and on the cross-cultural influences among the Insular, Continental and Mediterranean worlds in the eighth century.
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The Harley Psalter

by William (University Of Cambridge) Noel

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 This is a fascinating study of the making of the Harley Psalter, an illustrated manuscript which was produced at Christ Church, Canterbury over a period of about 100 years, from c. 1020 to c. 1130.
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Vision And Meaning In Ninth-Century Byzantium - Image As Exegesis In The Homilies Of Gregory Of Nazianzus

by Leslie (University Of Birmingham) Brubaker

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 Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such visual communication worked and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in the aftermath of Iconoclasm.
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The Early Medieval Bible - Its Production, Decoration And Use

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 Eleven linked studies interpret the evidence of Bible manuscripts in their cultural context from late antiquity to the thirteenth century. Together these essays provide an authoritative treatment of themes of central importance for the history and culture of the early Middle Ages.
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Giles Of Rome'S De Regimine Principum - Reading And Writing Politics At Court And University, C.1275â€“C.1525

by Charles F. (Georgia Southern University) Briggs

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 This study uses an interdisciplinary approach towards the surviving manuscript copies of Giles of Rome's De regimine principum to show how people of the later Middle Ages read the text and appropriated it for both lay and clerical purposes.
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The Bobbio Missal - Liturgy And Religious Culture In Merovingian Gaul

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 The Bobbio Missal, written around the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century, is one of the most intriguing liturgical manuscripts to have been produced in Merovingian Francia. This book draws together a wide range of specialist knowledge to provide a major re-evaluation of this complex manuscript.
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Manuscripts And Libraries In The Age Of Charlemagne

by Bernhard Bischoff

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 In this book, Michael Gorman has selected and translated seven of Bernhard Bischoff's classic essays on aspects of eighth- and ninth-century culture. They include an investigation of the role of books in the transmission of culture from the sixth to the ninth century, and studies of the court libraries of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious.
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Reading In Medieval St. Gall

by Anna A. (Ohio State University) Grotans

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 Learning to read in medieval Germany meant learning to read and understand Latin as well as German. The manuscripts of the tenth-century scholar and teacher Notker Labeo display how the medieval pedagogic method combined Latin and vernacular literacy. This study has much to contribute to our knowledge of medieval reading.
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Vision And Meaning In Ninth-Century Byzantium - Image As Exegesis In The Homilies Of Gregory Of Nazianzus

by Leslie (University Of Birmingham) Brubaker

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 Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such visual communication worked and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in the aftermath of Iconoclasm.
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The Gottschalk Antiphonary - Music And Liturgy In Twelfth-Century Lambach

by Lisa Fagin Davis

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 This book reconstructs and studies the music, liturgy, and illustrations of a twelfth-century manuscript from the Austrian monastery in Lambach. The manuscript was taken apart in the fifteenth century and the pages are here brought together photographically for the first time since the original manuscript was dismantled five centuries ago.
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Cathedral And Civic Ritual In Late Medieval And Renaissance Florence - The Service Books Of Santa Maria Del Fiore

by Marica S. (Pennsylvania State University) Tacconi

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 Marica S. Tacconi offers the first comprehensive investigation of the sixty-five extant liturgical manuscripts produced between 1150 and 1526 for both Santa Maria del Fiore and its predecessor, the early cathedral of Santa Reparata. This fascinating study provides many new insights into late medieval and Renaissance Florentine ritual and culture.
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The Palaeography Of Gothic Manuscript Books - From The Twelfth To The Early Sixteenth Century

by Albert Derolez

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 This book, first published in 2003, is a detailed survey of book scripts used in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530. Illustrated with hundreds of examples of the hands discussed, this book is an essential guide for those studying the manuscripts of the period and an invaluable reference work for scholars.
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Physicochemical Mechanics - With Applications In Physics, Chemistry, Membranology And Biology

by Nikolai (University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Kocherginsky

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 Physicochemical mechanics is a modern theoretical framework that can be used to model physicochemical processes, based on well-known concepts taken from classical mechanics. This self-contained book provides a detailed summary of this theoretical approach and its many useful applications in biological physics, biochemistry and chemical engineering.
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