Medievalists.net » Book History http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Love of Books http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/11/the-love-of-the-books/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/11/the-love-of-the-books/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2015 06:33:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61717 Books delight us, when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/11/the-love-of-the-books/feed/ 0 Monastic Space and the Use of Books in Anglo-Norman England http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/21/monastic-space-use-books-anglo-norman-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/21/monastic-space-use-books-anglo-norman-england/#comments Wed, 21 May 2014 19:56:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49768 My summary of a paper given at the Institute of Historical Research on: Monastic Space and the Use of Books in Anglo-Norman England.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/21/monastic-space-use-books-anglo-norman-england/feed/ 0 Medievalism, the Beautiful Book, and the Arts and Crafts Movement http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/06/medievalism-beautiful-book-arts-crafts-movement/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/06/medievalism-beautiful-book-arts-crafts-movement/#comments Wed, 07 May 2014 00:06:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49471 My objective here is to examine briefly the influence of Medievalism on the emergence of the concept of the beautiful book in the Arts and Crafts movement, first in England and then its impact in publication design in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/06/medievalism-beautiful-book-arts-crafts-movement/feed/ 0 Spiritual ‘encyclopedias’ in eleventh-century Byzantium? http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/31/spiritual-encyclopedias-eleventh-century-byzantium/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/31/spiritual-encyclopedias-eleventh-century-byzantium/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2014 08:59:18 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48667 The theoretical debate concerning what constitutes an ‘encyclopedia’ in the Byzantine context appears to be not only underdeveloped, but also carried out in a vacuum with respect to the Latin medieval counterpart (and vice-versa).

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/31/spiritual-encyclopedias-eleventh-century-byzantium/feed/ 0 On Omissions and Substitutions in the Medieval English Translations of the Gospel http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/20/on-omissions-and-substitutions-in-the-medieval-english-translations-of-the-gospel/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/20/on-omissions-and-substitutions-in-the-medieval-english-translations-of-the-gospel/#comments Fri, 20 Dec 2013 23:18:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45929 In view of this we carried out research on two English medieval translations of John’s Gospel, believing that their comparison would not only reveal differences in the perception and experience of biblical concepts (expressed through language), but also those in culture, society and cognition that occurred in the period between their occurrence.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/20/on-omissions-and-substitutions-in-the-medieval-english-translations-of-the-gospel/feed/ 0 ‘Selling stories and many other things in and through the city’: Peddling Print in Renaissance Florence and Venice http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/04/selling-stories-and-many-other-things-in-and-through-the-city-peddling-print-in-renaissance-florence-and-venice/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/04/selling-stories-and-many-other-things-in-and-through-the-city-peddling-print-in-renaissance-florence-and-venice/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2013 00:37:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45491 ‘Selling stories and many other things in and through the city’: Peddling Print in Renaissance Florence and Venice Rosa M. Salzberg (University of Warwick) Sixteenth Century Journal: XLII/3 (2011) Abstract Mobile and marginal, street sellers tend to disappear from the historical record, yet they played a very important part in the dissemination of cheap print […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/04/selling-stories-and-many-other-things-in-and-through-the-city-peddling-print-in-renaissance-florence-and-venice/feed/ 0 ‘Take almaundes blaunched …’ Cookbooks in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/take-almaundes-blaunched-cookbooks-in-the-middle-ages-and-early-modern-times/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/take-almaundes-blaunched-cookbooks-in-the-middle-ages-and-early-modern-times/#comments Sun, 24 Nov 2013 16:50:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45180 What is a cooking recipe, what is a manual to good, healthy food in the epoch of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/take-almaundes-blaunched-cookbooks-in-the-middle-ages-and-early-modern-times/feed/ 0 Medieval bindings: stiff board structures in Slovenian manuscript collection http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/medieval-bindings-stiff-board-structures-in-slovenian-manuscript-collection/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/medieval-bindings-stiff-board-structures-in-slovenian-manuscript-collection/#comments Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:44:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45171 The paper aims to present the methodology of work used in the research as well as the process of formulating description form related to conservation bookbinding. The paper closes with observations and conclusions drawn from the analysis of the Slovenian collection of medieval codices.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/medieval-bindings-stiff-board-structures-in-slovenian-manuscript-collection/feed/ 0 The Italian Giant Bibles, Lay Patronage, and Professional Workmanship http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/27/the-italian-giant-bibles-lay-patronage-and-professional-workmanship/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/27/the-italian-giant-bibles-lay-patronage-and-professional-workmanship/#comments Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:01:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=44508 Eleventh-century Umbro-Roman Giant Bibles were commissioned by varied church and lay patrons (and not only by Roman reform- party adherents) and crafted by ad hoc assemblies of paid craftsmen using methods of carefully calibrated, synchronous copying to reduce production time for the single commission.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/27/the-italian-giant-bibles-lay-patronage-and-professional-workmanship/feed/ 0 Late Medieval Franciscan Statutes on Convent Libraries and Education http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/16/late-medieval-franciscan-statutes-on-convent-libraries-and-education/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/16/late-medieval-franciscan-statutes-on-convent-libraries-and-education/#comments Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:30:28 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=43625 Although the higher education of the Franciscans has frequently been the object of research, their role in offering elementary instruction has often been ignored.

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