Paper in Medieval England - Orietta Da Rold

Paper in Medieval England

From Pulp to Fictions

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Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-84057-6 (ISBN)
99,75 inkl. MwSt
Detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. In this analysis, book production is one of the elements of a wider story. The book considers a wider matrix of historical, economic, social and cultural interrelations and people's networks.
Orietta Da Rold provides a detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. Looking beyond book production, Da Rold maps out the uses of paper and explains the success of this technology in medieval culture, considering how people interacted with it and how it affected their lives. Offering a nuanced understanding of how affordance influenced societal choices, Paper in Medieval England draws on a multilingual array of sources to investigate how paper circulated, was written upon, and was deployed by people across medieval society, from kings to merchants, to bishops, to clerks and to poets, contributing to an understanding of how medieval paper changed communication and shaped modernity.

Dr Orietta Da Rold is Lecturer in Literature and Material Text, 1100 to 1500 at the University of Cambridge. She is the Co-Director (with Elaine Treharne) of the successful AHRC-funded project and e-book, English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 and is currently editing the Cambridge Companion to British Manuscripts with Elaine Treharne.

Paper and culture in medieval England: an introduction; 1. Paper stories; 2. The economics of paper; 3. Writing on paper; 4. The character of paper and its use in medieval books; 5. Paper in the medieval literary imagination; 6. Epilogue: the age of paper.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 235 x 160 mm
Gewicht 580 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Journalistik
Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 1-108-84057-4 / 1108840574
ISBN-13 978-1-108-84057-6 / 9781108840576
Zustand Neuware
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