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Modes of Modification

Variance and Change in Medieval Manuscript Culture

Herausgegeben von: Karl G. Johansson

ISSN: 2627-9592

e-ISSN 2627-9606

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Variance characterises the textual culture of the Middle Ages on all levels, from palaeography and orthography to the transmission of motifs and larger textual units. Analysing this variance is paramount to understand the norms and transformations involved in the process of establishing a literate culture. Taking the role of shifting networks of individuals and institutions independent of modern national borders into account will allow to contend the tradition of national biases and to suggest a more diverse view of chronology.
The collected volumes and monographs published in the series Modes of Modification focus on diversity and variance in the emerging literate culture of the Nordic realm. In order to place the region in a larger context, the series will also encourage comparative studies with a wider European view.

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The Meaning of Media

Texts and Materiality in Medieval Scandinavia

Anna Catharina Horn, Karl G. Johansson

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The book highlights aspects of mediality and materiality in the dissemination and distribution of texts in the Scandinavian Middle Ages important for achieving a general understanding of the emerging literate culture. In nine chapters various types of texts represented in different media and in a range of materials are treated. The topics include two chapters on epigraphy, on lead amulets and stone monuments inscribed with runes and Roman letters. In four chapters aspects of the manuscript culture is discussed, the role of authorship and of the dissemination of Christian topics in translations. The appropriation of a Latin book culture in the vernaculars is treated as well as the adminstrative use of writing in charters. In the two final chapters topics related to the emerging print culture in early post-medieval manuscripts and prints are discussed with a focus on reception. The range of topics will make the book relevant for scholars from all fields of medieval research as well as those interested in mediality and materiality in general.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110695366
ISBN:: 9783110695366
ISBN:: 9783110695496
ISBN:: 9783110694970
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturen anderer Länder und Spachen
Fachgebiet:: Skandinavische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Editionswissenschaft
Verlag:: De Gruyter