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A volume that introduces new sources and offers fresh perspectives on a key era of transition, this book is of value to art historians and historians alike. From the dissolution of the Carolingian empire to the onset of the so-called 12th-century Renaissance, the transformative 10th–11th centuries witnessed the production of a significant number of illuminated manuscripts from present-day France, Belgium, Spain, and Italy, alongside the better-known works from Anglo-Saxon England and the Holy Roman Empire. While the hybrid styles evident in book painting reflect the movement and re-organization of people and codices, many of the manuscripts also display a highly creative engagement with the art of the past. Likewise, their handling of subject matter—whether common or new for book illumination—attests to vibrant artistic energy and innovation. On the basis of rarely studied scientific, religious, and literary manuscripts, the contributions in this volume address a range of issues, including the engagement of 10th–11th century bookmakers with their Carolingian and Antique legacies, the interwoven geographies of book production, and matters of modern politics and historiography that have shaped the study of this complex period.

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Informations pratiques :

After the Carolingians. Re-defining Manuscript Illumination in the 10th and 11th Centuries, éd. Beatrice Kitzinger and Joshua O’Driscoll, De Gruyter, 2020 (Sense, Matter, and Medium, 2). 24.0 x 17.0 cm, 228 ill., 482 p. ISBN: 978-3-11-057467-8. Prix : 61,95 euros.

Source : De Gruyter

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository’s digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment.

Through contributions from a large group of distinguished international scholars, the volume assesses the impact of being able to access and interpret these early manuscripts in new ways. The focus on Parker on the Web, a world-class digital repository of diverse medieval manuscripts, comes as that site made its contents Open Access. Exploring the uses of digital representations of medieval texts and their contexts, contributors consider manuscripts from multiple perspectives including production, materiality, and reception. In addition, the volume explicates new interdisciplinary frameworks of analysis for the study of the relationship between texts and their physical contexts, while centring on an appreciation of the opportunities and challenges effected by the digital representation of a tangible object. Approaches extend from the codicological, palaeographical, linguistic, and cultural to considerations of reader reception, image production, and the implications of new technologies for future discoveries.

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age advances the debate in manuscript studies about the role of digital and computational sources and tools. As such, the book will appeal to scholars and students working in the disciplines of Digital Humanities, Medieval Studies, Literary Studies, Library and Information Science, and Book History.

Table des matières :

1. Introduction – Benjamin Albritton and Elaine Treharne

Part I. Theory and Practice

2. What it is to be a Digitization Specialist: Chasing Medieval Materials in a Sea of Pixels – Astrid J. Smith
3. From the Divine to the Digital: Digitization as Resurrection and reconstruction – Keri Thomas
4. A Note on Technology and Functionality in Digital Manuscript Studies – Abigail G. Robertson
5. Ways of Seeing Manuscripts: Exploring Parker 2.0 – Andrew Prescott

Part II. Materialities

6. A Note on Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 210 – Orietta Da Rold
7. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 367 – Peter A. Stokes

Part II: A Study in (Digital) Codicology

8. Pocket Change: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 383 and the Value of the Virtual Object – Anya Adair
9. Rolling with It: Navigating Absence in the Digital Realm – Siân Echard

Part III. Translation and Transmission

10. ‘Glocal’ Matters: The Gospels of St Augustine as a Codex in Translation – Mateusz Fafinski
11. Encyclopaedic Notes in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 320 – John J. Gallagher
12. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 322: Tradition and Transmission – David F. Johnson
13. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 41 and 286: Digitization as Translation – Sharon M. Rowley

Part IV. Of Multimedia and the Multilingual

14. Fragmentation and Wholeness in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 16 – A. Joseph McMullen
15. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144 and 402: Mercian Intellectual Culture in pre-Conquest England (and beyond) – Lindy Brady
16. Philologia and Philology: Allegory, Multilingualism and the Corpus Martianus Capella – Elizabeth Boyle
17. Remediation and Multilingualism in Corpus Christi College, 402 – Carla María Thomas

Part V. Forms of Reading

18. Living with Books in Early Medieval England: Solomon and Saturn, Bibliophilia, and the Globalist Red Book of Darley – Erica Weaver
19. Severed Heads and Sutured Skins – Catherine E. Karko
20. Books Consumed, Books Multiplied: Martianus Capella, Ælfric’s Homilies, and the International Image Interoperability Framework – Alexandra Bolintineanu
21. Making a Home for Manuscripts on the Internet – Michelle R. Warren

Informations pratiques :

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age, éd. Benjamin Albritton, Georgia Henley, Elaine Treharne, Routledge, 2020. ISBN 9780367426613 Published July 15, 2020 by Routledge 234 Pages – 22 B/W Illustrations. Prix : 96 £.

Source : Routledge

Il libro d’ore, vero “best seller del Medioevo”, fu il testo devozionale per eccellenza a partire dall’ultimo quarto del XIII secolo. Sostenuto da un corpus di diciassette codici, in parte inediti, il presente volume analizza i libri d’ore italiani in relazioni ai lettori, agli artisti e alle immagini che li decorano. Prima pubblicazione dedicata ai libri d’ore prodotti in Italia sino alla metà del Trecento, questo studio ricostruisce la loro committenza tra l’ambiente delle corti signorili e le confraternite devozionali.

Laura Alidori Battaglia ha studiato storia dell’arte a Firenze, specializzandosi in storia della miniatura, e conseguito il suo dottorato a Losanna. Ha avuto incarichi presso la Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, le Università di Firenze e Ginevra, e collaborato con la University of California a Berkeley e Santa Cruz, la Sismel, l’Accademia delle Scienze di Vienna, la Società di Storia della Miniatura e il progetto e-codices. È autrice di numerosi articoli su riviste specializzate che spaziano dall’arte romanica al Rinascimento. È stata inoltre curatrice di volumi per la Sismel e la Società di storia della miniatura.

Informations pratiques :

Laura Alidori Battaglia, Il libro d’ore in Italia tra confraternite e corti (1275-1349). Lettori, artisti, immagini, Olschki, 2020. 17 x 24, xvi-414 pp. con 222 figg. bn n.t. e 32 tavv. a colori f.t. ISBN: 9788822266644. Prix : 70 euros.

Source : Olschki