Beneš, “Noble & Most Ancient: Catalogues of City Foundation in Fourteenth-Century Italy” Margaret Lamont, “‘Genealogical’ History and the English Roll”.Anne Hudson, “Books and Their Survival: the Case of English Manuscripts of Wyclif’s Latin Works”.Ralph Hanna, “Dan Michel of Northgate and His Books”.Doyle, “William Darker: the Work of an English Carthusian Scribe” Patricia Stirnemann, “Private Libraries Privately Made”.Laura Light, “Non-biblical Texts in Thirteenth-Century Bibles”.Stacey Graham, “The Transmission of North African Texts to Europe in Late Antiquity”.Bonnie Effros, “Writing History from Manuscript and Artifact: Building an Object-Based Narrative of the Middle Ages in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France”.François Dolbeau, “La bibliothèque des Dominicains de Bâle au XVe siècle: fragment inédit d'un catalogue alphabétique”.François Avril, “Jean le Noir et Saint-Martin-des-Champs”.Elizabeth Morrison, “Linking Ancient Troy and Medieval France: Illuminations of an Early Copy of the Roman de Troie”.Susan L’Engle, “The Pro-active Reader: Learning to Learn the Law”.Hedeman, “Laurent de Premierfait and the Visualization of Antiquity” Keith Busby, “Text and Image in the Getty Tristan, Los Angeles, J.The essays offer the results of new and sometimes technical research, set forth in a manner intelligible not only to the expert but to the interested amateur. The specialist authors represented in this volume have displayed, over the whole of their careers, an ability to combine the highest caliber of research with an eagerness to make their subject accessible to others through teaching and writing and public lectures. No similar collection of manuscript studies exhibits so clearly the role of medieval manuscripts in teaching. In the last half century, public colleges and universities have increasingly appreciated the pedagogical opportunities inherent in building, through gift and purchase, collections of medieval manuscripts, formerly thought to be the province only of wealthy private schools. Its wide range in time and space reflects the lifetime of manuscript research, teaching, and collecting by its honorees, Richard and Mary Rouse.Ī particular emphasis distinguishes this volume from other such collections: its stress on the use, and usefulness, of medieval manuscripts in the teaching of most historical disciplines in Western culture, from the broad undergraduate survey (of art, literature, history) to the specialized graduate seminar. Its geographic breadth extends through the major Western cultures and literatures, from England to Italy, Germany, and France. The subject matter of these studies ranges chronologically from late antiquity to the later Middle Ages, adding the emergent medievalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They reflect the patronage of authors and manuscript painters, from the royal through the monastic to the urban middle class, and they trace the sometimes astonishing afterlife of manuscripts. The essays in this collection pertain to art history, medieval Latin culture both ecclesiastic and legal, the history of vernacular literatures, and the devotional practices of the laity.

'There could have been no clearer way to mark the Rouses' focus on the material nature of manuscripts as tools for study.' (Natasha Amendola, in: Eras, Edition 14, February 2013) Topics range from early (North) African manuscripts to annotations (vastly amusing and intriguing in Susan L’Engle’s article) to manuscript book collections.' (John N. So this celebratory volume brings together papers concerning many different periods and a considerable variety of interests. Many of us use manuscripts from a particular period but, for the Rouses, all manuscripts are grist to their mill. 'The variety of matters that arise out of the study of manuscripts, or even of a specific manuscript, is enormous, and this is reflected in this collection of essays from a conference in their honour held at UCLA. 'These four articles, as well as the thirteen remaining - all equally informative - aptly underline the current flourishing in the field of the study of medieval manuscripts, which is no doubt due, substantially, to scholars such as Richard and Mary Rouse.' (Anne Mouron, in: Rare Books Newsletter, issue 94, April 2013)

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