"In The Hebrew Bible: A Millennium, scholars from different fields and dealing with different material sources are trying to consider the Hebrew Bible as a whole. The development of new databases and other technological tools have an increasing impact on research practices. By i…
The red-ink names that decorate the Winchester manuscript of Malory's Morte Darthur are striking; yet until now, no-one has asked why the rubrication exists. This book explores the uniqueness and thematic significance of the physical layout of the Morte in its manuscript context…
The red-ink names that decorate the Winchester manuscript of Malory's <I>Morte Darthur</I> are striking; yet until now, no-one has asked why the rubrication exists. This book explores the uniqueness and thematic significance of the physical layout of the <I>Morte</I> in its manu…
In this volume are three more striking examples of the artistry of Harold Pinter. With his usual blend of precision of language, menace, comedy, and ambiguous sexuality, these works deal with shifting relationships--Cover.
In this volume are three more striking examples of the artistry of Harold Pinter. With his usual blend of precision of language, menace, comedy, and ambiguous sexuality, these works deal with shifting relationships--Cover.
This book explores formal approaches to the study of philosophical texts to present new methods for the analysis of pre-modern thought in China. Attempts made by Chinese thinkers to generate literary forms of philosophical reasoning have gone unrecognised within scholarship in C…
This book explores formal approaches to the study of philosophical texts to present new methods for the analysis of pre-modern thought in China. Attempts made by Chinese thinkers to generate literary forms of philosophical reasoning have gone unrecognised within scholarship in C…
Njáls saga is the best known and most highly regarded of all medieval Icelandic sagas and it occupies a special place in Icelandic cultural history. The manuscript tradition is exceptionally rich and extensive. The oldest extant manuscripts date to only a couple of decades after…
This book examines how manuscript practices interacted with an expanding print marketplace to nurture and transform the period's literary culture. It unearths the alternative histories manuscripts tell us about British Romantic literary culture, describing the practices by which…
"This book examines how manuscript practices interacted with an expanding print marketplace to nurture and transform the period's literary culture. It unearths the alternative histories manuscripts tell us about British Romantic literary culture, describing the practices by whic…
The book unbound: editing and reading medieval manuscripts and texts
by Echard, Siân, Partridge, Stephen, UBC Medieval Workshop 'The Book Unbound: Manuscripts Studies and Editorial Theory for the Twenty-first Century', University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
fromStudies in book and print culture
"In The Book Unbound scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literature and culture. Taking into consideration English, French, Anglo-Norman, and Latin texts from several periods, the contributors exam…