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This book explores the production and use of medieval manuscripts that contain classical Latin texts. Six experts in the field address a range of topics related to these manuscripts, including how classical texts were disseminated throughout medieval society, how readers used and interacted with specific texts, and what these books look like from a material standpoint. This collection of essays also considers the value of studying classical manuscripts as a distinct group, and demonstrates how such a collective approach can add to our understanding of how classical works functioned in medieval society. Focusing on the period 800-1200, when classical works played a crucial role in the teaching of grammar, rhetoric, and dialectics, this volume investigates how classical Latin texts were copied, used, and circulated in both discrete and shared contexts.
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research project ‘Turning over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance’. Rosamond McKitterick is Contributions by Robert Gary Babcock, David T. Gura, Erik Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge. Kwakkel, Irene O’Daly, Mariken Teeuwen and Rodney Thomson. Rodney Thomson is Emeritus Professor at the School of History and Classics at the University of Tasmania (Hobart, Australia). Erik Kwakkel is Associate Professor in palaeography at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society and Principal Investigator of‘An theoutstanding nwo-funded research to project ‘Turning Over a New Leaf: contribution the field of medieval codicology.’ Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance’.
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