Textual Situations: Three Medieval Manuscripts and Their Readers

Textual Situations: Three Medieval Manuscripts and Their Readers - Hardcover

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Textual Situations: Three Medieval Manuscripts and Their Readers - Hardcover

Textual Situations: Three Medieval Manuscripts and Their Readers - Hardcover

by Andrew Taylor
$145.35
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Book Overview

by Andrew Taylor (Author)

Generations of scholars have meditated upon the literary devices and cultural meanings of The Song of Roland. But according to Andrew Taylor not enough attention has been given to the physical context of the manuscript itself. The original copy of The Song of Roland is actually bound with a Latin translation of the Timaeus.

Textual Situations looks at this bound volume along with two other similarly bound medieval volumes to explore the manuscripts and marginalia that have been cast into shadow by the fame of adjacent texts, some of the most read medieval works. In addition to the bound volume that contains The Song of Roland, Taylor examines the volume that binds the well-known poem "Sumer is icumen in" with the Lais of Marie de France, and a volume containing the legal Decretals of Gregory IX with marginal illustrations of wayfaring life decorating its borders.

Approaching the manuscript as artifact, Textual Situations suggests that medieval texts must be examined in terms of their material support--that is, literal interpretation must take into consideration the physical manuscript itself in addition to the social conventions that surround its compilation. Taylor reconstructs the circumstances of the creation of these medieval bound volumes, the settings in which they were read, inscribed, and shared, and the social and intellectual conventions surrounding them.

Author Biography

Andrew Taylor is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa.

Number of Pages: 312
Dimensions: 1 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: February 20, 2002
ISBN9780812236422
Author Andrew Taylor
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
GenreLiterature and Arts
FormatHardcover
PublishedFebruary 2002
LanguageENG- English
Pages312
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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