Bibliograph

The Cambridge history of the book in Britain, edited by Nigel J. Morgan, Rodney M. Thomson, Volume 2

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Label

The Cambridge history of the book in Britain, edited by Nigel J. Morgan, Rodney M. Thomson, Volume 2

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Cambridge history of the book in Britain

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

828742004

Responsibility statement

edited by Nigel J. Morgan, Rodney M. Thomson

Series statement

The Cambridge History of the Book in BritainCambridge Histories online

Summary

This is the first history of the book in Britain from the Norman Conquest until the early fifteenth century. The twenty-six expert contributors to this volume discuss the manuscript book from a variety of angles: as physical object (manufacture, format, writing and decoration); its purpose and readership (books for monasteries, for the Church's liturgy, for elementary and advanced instruction, for courtly entertainment); and as the vehicle for particular types of text (history, sermons, medical treatises, law and administration, music). In all of this, the broader, changing social and cultural context is kept in mind, and so are the various connections with continental Europe. The volume includes a full bibliography and 80 black and white plates--, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

The roles of books -- Book production -- Readership, libraries, texts and contexts

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