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Manuscript communication

Manuscript-communication277SNIJDERS Tjamke

Manuscript communication : visual and textual mechanics of communication in Hagiographical texts from the Southern Low Countries, 900-1200

Turnhout : Brepols, 2015, XVIII-493 p.

Collection Utrecht studies in medieval literacy ; 32

ISBN 978-2-503-55294-1

N 2660

Résumé éditeur :

This book investigates how medieval abbeys in the Southern Low Countries used hagiographical manuscripts as a communicative tool.
This study investigates how medieval abbeys in the Southern Low Countries used hagiographical manuscripts as a communicative tool. Four basic questions are addressed: How did layout influence a manuscript’s communicative potential? Was manuscript communication influenced by its composition? How did the flexibility of texts and manuscripts influence their communicative function? And how did the position of the monastery within the monastic landscape influence manuscript communication?
Ranging from in-depth case studies to discussions of structure and agency in manuscript terminology and layout in the aftermath of New Philology, this book argues that the High Middle Ages witnessed a fundamental process of manuscript diversification and specialisation, which was at the basis of the thirteenth-century revolution in manuscript layout. This led twelfth-century monks to start conceptualising the manuscript as an object with fixed contents, which was to be used and copied as a whole. Consequently, the production and spread of saints’ lives became part of a process of ideological homogenisation among Benedictine monasteries and started a crucial development in medieval literacy.

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OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Corinne HÉLIN (9 novembre 2015). Manuscript communication. IRHiS-Bibliothèque. Consulté le 24 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/lxkl


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