Medieval Textual Cultures
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Medieval Textual Cultures
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Author : Faith Wallis
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-08-22
Medieval Textual Cultures written by Faith Wallis and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-22 with Religion categories.
Understanding how medieval textual cultures engaged with the heritage of antiquity (transmission and translation) depends on recognizing that reception is a creative cultural act (transformation). These essays focus on the people, societies and institutions who were doing the transmitting, translating, and transforming -- the "agents". The subject matter ranges from medicine to astronomy, literature to magic, while the cultural context encompasses Islamic and Jewish societies, as well as Byzantium and the Latin West. What unites these studies is their attention to the methodological and conceptual challenges of thinking about agency. Not every agent acted with an agenda, and agenda were sometimes driven by immediate needs or religious considerations that while compelling to the actors, are more opaque to us. What does it mean to say that a text becomes “available” for transmission or translation? And why do some texts, once transmitted, fail to thrive in their new milieu? This collection thus points toward a more sophisticated “ecology” of transmission, where not only individuals and teams of individuals, but also social spaces and local cultures, act as the agents of cultural creativity.
Textual Cultures Of Medieval Italy
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Author : William Randolph Robins
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Textual Cultures Of Medieval Italy written by William Randolph Robins and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Based on papers presented at the 41st Conference on Editorial Problems held at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., from Nov. 6 - 8th, 2005.
Vehicles Of Transmission Translation And Transformation In Medieval Textual Culture
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Author : Robert Wisnovsky
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Release Date : 2011
Vehicles Of Transmission Translation And Transformation In Medieval Textual Culture written by Robert Wisnovsky and has been published by Brepols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Europe categories.
In this volume the McGill University Research Group on Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Cultures and their collaborators initiate a new reflection on the dynamics involved in receiving texts and ideas from antiquity or from other contemporary cultures. For all their historic specificity, the western European, Arab/Islamic and Jewish civilizations of the Middle Ages were nonetheless co-participants in a complex web of cultural transmission that operated via translation and inevitably involved the transformation of what had been received. This three-fold process is what defines medieval intellectual history. Every act of transmission presumes the existence of some 'efficient cause' - a translation, a commentary, a book, a library, etc. Such vehicles of transmission, however, are not passive containers in which cultural products are transported. On the contrary: the vehicles themselves select, shape, and transform the material transmitted, making ancient or alien cultural products usable and attractive in another milieu. The case studies contained in this volume attempt to bring these larger processes into the foreground.They lay the groundwork for a new intellectual history of medieval civilizations in all their variety, based on the core premise that these shared not only a cultural heritage from antiquity but, more importantly, a broadly comparable 'operating system' for engaging with that heritage.Each was a culture of transmission, claiming ownership over the prestigious knowledge inherited from the past. Each depended on translation. Finally, each transformed what it appropriated.
World Medievalism
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Author : Louise D'Arcens
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
World Medievalism written by Louise D'Arcens and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
Explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms with the global present.
Models Of Change In Medieval Textual Culture
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Author : Jonatan Pettersson
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-12-30
Models Of Change In Medieval Textual Culture written by Jonatan Pettersson and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Change is a matter of central concern and interest in the study of history, and it has been approached with various methodological and theoretical means in different historical disciplines. The concept is, however, rarely addressed per se, despite its fundamental role for historical insight. This book addresses different kinds of change in medieval textual culture as examples or models of change. A model can take different forms: it consists of abstract representations, like a flowchart or a series of stages within a development, it might be a concept, like paradigm shift, or a single, but telling historical example. In their different forms, models serve as conceptual tools to enlighten historical instances of change. The contributions of this volume gather cases from a series of aspects of medieval textual culture which are subject to change: physical books, the acoustics of performed text, textualized worlds, scribes and authorship, genre, the choice of language in texts, and paleographic variance. The book also addresses problems of thinking in models and metaphors of change, as they also – as idols of the market – have the power to lead us astray if not carefully meditated.
Textual Cultures Cultural Texts
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Author : Orietta Da Rold
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2010
Textual Cultures Cultural Texts written by Orietta Da Rold and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Design categories.
New essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and texts. The dynamic fields of the history of the book and the sociology of the text are the areas this volume investigates, bringing together ten specially commissioned essays that between them demonstrate a range of critical and materialapproaches to medieval, early modern, and digital books and texts. They scrutinize individual medieval manuscripts to illustrate how careful re-reading of evidence permits a more nuanced apprehension of production, and receptionacross time; analyse metaphor for our understanding of the Byzantine book; examine the materiality of textuality from Beowulf to Pepys and the digital work in the twenty-first century; place manuscripts back into specific historical context; and re-appraise scholarly interpretation of significant periods of manuscript and print production in the later medieval and early modern periods. All of these essays call for a new assessment of the ways in which we read books and texts, making a major contribution to book history, and illustrating how detailed focus on individual cases can yield important new findings. Contributors: Elaine Treharne, Erika Corradini, Julia Crick, Orietta Da Rold, A.S.G. Edwards, Martin K. Foys, Whitney Anne Trettien, David L. Gants, Ralph Hanna, Robert Romanchuk, Margaret M. Smith, Liberty Stanavage.
The Making Of Textual Culture
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Author : Martin Irvine
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994-04-28
The Making Of Textual Culture written by Martin Irvine and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-04-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the a major study of the cultural work performed by grammatica, the central discipline concerned with literacy, language, interpretation and literature in medieval society. Grammatica was, with all aspects of Latin literary text, its language, meaning and value. Martin Irvine demonstrates that grammatica, though the first of the liberal arts, was not simply one discipline among many: it had an essentially constitutive function, defining language, meaning and texts for other medieval disciplines. Martin Irvine draws together several aspects of medieval culture - literary theory, the nature of literacy, education, biblical interpretation, the literary canon and linguistic thought - in order to disclose the more far-reaching social effect of grammatica, chief of which was the making of textual culture in the medieval West.
Transmissions And Transformations In Medieval And Renaissance Textual Cultures
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Author : Guyda Armstrong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Transmissions And Transformations In Medieval And Renaissance Textual Cultures written by Guyda Armstrong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Special Issue Transmissions And Transformations In Medieval And Renaissance Textual Cultures
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Author : Guyda Armstrong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Special Issue Transmissions And Transformations In Medieval And Renaissance Textual Cultures written by Guyda Armstrong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Textual Reception And Cultural Debate In Medieval English Studies
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Author : María José Esteve Ramos
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-27
Textual Reception And Cultural Debate In Medieval English Studies written by María José Esteve Ramos and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-27 with History categories.
This book is a rigorous and broad update of the state of the art in the investigation of Old and Middle English. The volume, written by some of the best known experts in this field, addresses different issues, such as etymology, manuscript sources, and medieval literary traditions, among others. Its contents will be particularly useful for those interested in the different perspectives of current research in the field, exhorting the reader to consider the relationship of the medieval textual heritage and language with both its contemporary medieval audience and the readers of the 21st century. This book will appeal to specialists in Old and Middle English language and literature and also to university students. In contrast with monographs, which focus on a specific aspect, these essays allow a broader panorama of what is being done and the approaches currently being used.