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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Medieval manuscripts"”.
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The unpunctuated Chaucer : a guide to reading the Medieval manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales.
The medieval manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are, in the modern sense, unpunctuated. That is, no commas, semicolons, question marks, or quotation marks existed in the fourteenth century. In spite of that fact, fourteenth- and fifteenth-century readers presumably had no problems reading …
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Chaucer's Use of Jerome's 'Adversus Jovinianum,' With an Edition of Book I, Chapters 40-49, Based on a Study of Medieval Manuscripts
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Could the Content and Context of the Late Medieval Lelamour Herbal Provide a Source for New Treatments?
… Could the content and context of the late medieval Lelamour Herbal provide a source for new treatments? Medieval manuscripts can form an important resource for modern medicine, containing remedies with plant or ingredient combinations that have the potential to provide the basis for new …
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'My Makyng Thow Wryte More Trewe': rhetorical chorus in medieval and digital spaces
… compare the actions of the rhetorical chorus in medieval manuscripts (Chaucer, Kempe, Pizan) to contemporary digital websites (Wikipedia, Huffington Post, Gay Girl in Damascus). Both medieval manuscripts and digital sites are dynamic material spaces in which the choral actors can enter and alter …
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The life of a book: British Library manuscript additional 35157 in historical context
… the continued study of the social history of medieval manuscripts. Part two comprises fourteen appendices, includes an edition of Add.35157's marginal supply, surveys of its dialect, transcriptions of its text and reproductions of selected folios.
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Sting of the Gallfly
… with a setting inspired by marginalia in gothic medieval manuscripts. A child’s drawing comes to life with a dangerous appetite, causing her to flee her monastic home. She meets a thief on the road with secrets of his own, and the two embark on a journey to earn their livings and make their names …
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Bottoms Up! John of Arderne and the Interest in Surgical Manuscripts in Late Medieval England
… the more practical genres, particularly surgical manuscripts, have not been treated in the same manor. With little known about the various ways in which these texts may have been used and the different people in society who would have used them, it is high time to see what some of these surgical …
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Language, Land, and Law: Laurence Nowell's Anglo -Saxon Studies in Sixteenth-Century England
… in the Abcedarium, drawn from Anglo-Saxon and medieval Latin histories, participates in the Tudor interest in local history, cartography, and place names. Nowell's maps, among the first modern maps of Britain, show his interest in solidifying English identity against Irish otherness and suggest …
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Contemporary understanding of Gregorian chant - conceptualisation and practice
… performers and experts understand the medieval repertoire known to us as Gregorian chant. This medieval repertoire (also known as Franco-Roman) is understood here to be abstract musical and non-musical information in medieval manuscripts. It differs from classical western music …
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From Manuscript to Multimedia: Illuminating Memory and Re[image]ning Composition
… theory and compositional practices in both medieval and 21st century multimodal texts. Rather than further widening the schism between textual and visual rhetorics and compositional practices, I argue that these modes cannot be theorized independently. Following claims by several new media …
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The Medieval Irish Adaptation of Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile: Manuscript Tradition and Scholarly Context
… In Cath Catharda survives in seventeen manuscripts, yet modern scholarship has relied largely on Whitley Stokes’s posthumous edition of 1909, based on only four manuscripts and lacking a transparent editorial method. Part I responds to these limitations by providing the first systematic …
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'Of the holy londe of Irlande': A reconsideration of some Middle English Texts in late medieval Ireland
… of Anglo-Irish reading communities in late medieval Ireland, and specifically, the audiences that existed for texts in English. The research undertaken focuses on issues surrounding the production and reception (contemporary and subsequent) of a corpus of late medieval manuscripts of assumed …
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From Fear of Hell to Love of Christ: The Monastic Devotional Use of MS K.21 in the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge
… on one of the most influential abbeys in medieval England. The commissioning and/or reception of K.21 suggests the continued commitment of the Abbey to traditional monasticism at the turn of the fourteenth century, further negating the old paradigm of monastic decline. By discussing the …
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Retrieving the textual environment of the "Old English Bede": a digital remediation of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 41
… namely: what was the function of the margin in medieval culture and what has prevented scholarly print editions and previous digital scholarly editions from faithfully representing the reality of medieval texts such as CCCC41? These questions are answered in Chapter Two’s interrogation of …
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Pastoral care according to the bishops of England and Wales (c.1170 – 1228)
Church leaders have always been seen as shepherds, expected to feed their flock with teaching, to guide them to salvation, and to preserve them from threatening ‘wolves’. In the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, ideas about the specifics of these pastoral duties were developing rapidly, …