Inscribing Knowledge in the Medieval Book

Rosalind Brown-Grant, University of Leeds, UK, Patrizia Carmassi, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, Gisela Drossbach, Universität Augsburg, Germany, Anne D. Hedeman, University of Kansas, Lawrende, USA, Victoria Turner, University of St Andrews, UK, Iolanda Ventura, Université d'Orléans, France.

List of Figures

Editorial Principles

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction by the Editors




Part 1: Constructing Bodies of Knowledge

Juridical Late Medieval Paratexts and the Growth of European Jurisprudence by Mario Ascheri and Paola Maffei

Prefaces in Canon Law Books by Gisela Drossbach

"Depingo ut ostendam, depictum ita est expositio": Diagrams as an Indispensable Complement to the Cosmological Teaching of the Liber Nemroth de astronomia by Isabelle Draelants




Part 2: Negotiating Tradition, Creating Practice

From Text to Diagram: Giambattista Da Monte and the Practice of Medicine by Concetta Pennuto

Immortal Souls and an Angel Intellect: Some Thoughts on the Function and Meaning of Christian Iconography in Medieval Aristotle Textbooks by Hanna Wimmer

Writing in the Margin—Drawing in the Margin: Reading Practices of Medieval Jurists by Joanna Frońska

Structuring, Stressing, or Recasting Knowledge on the Page? Rubrication in the Manuscript Copies of the Pèlerinage de l’âme by Guillaume de Deguileville by Géraldine Veysseyre




Part 3: Adopting Tradition, Empowering Readers

From Troy to Aachen: Ancient Rome and the Carolingian Reception of Vergil by Sinéad O’Sullivan

Translating Prologues and Prologue Illustration in French Historical Texts by Anne D. Hedeman

Paratext and the Politics of Conquest: Questing Knights and Colonial Rule in Le Canarien by Victoria Turner

Prefaces and Frontispieces in Prose Romance Manuscripts by Rosalind Brown-Grant




Part 4: Appropriating Tradition, Expressing Ownership, Embodying the Book

Visualizing Pontifical Power: Paratextual Elements in Some French Liturgical Books, Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries by Alison Stones

Paratext in the Manuscripts of Hartmann Schedel by Outi Merisalo

Book Material, Production, and Use from the Point of View of the Paratext by Patrizia Carmassi




List of Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions Cited

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors and Editors

Index