Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe 1350-1550
Packaging, Presentation and Consumption
By Emma Cayley and Susan Powell
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This collaborative collection considers the packaging, presentation and consumption of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in Europe 1350-1550.
The book showcases innovative research on the history of the book from a range of established and younger scholars from the States and Europe in the fields of English and French studies, History, Music, and Art History.
Section I: Packaging and Presentation: The Materiality of the Manuscript and Printed Book
Anne Marie Lane: ‘How can we Recognise “Contemporary” Bookbindings of the Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Centuries?’
Matti Peikola: ‘Guidelines for Consumption: Scribal Ruling Patterns and Designing the mise-en-page in later Medieval England’
Kate Maxwell: ‘The Order of the Lays in the “Odd” Machaut MS BnF fr. 9221(E)’
Sonja Drimmer: ‘Picturing the King or Picturing the Saint: Two Miniature Programmes for John Lydgate’s Lives of Ss Edmund and Fremund’
Yvonne Rode: ‘Sixty-three Gallons of Books: Shipping Books to London in the Late Middle
Ages’
Section II: Consumers: Producers, Owners, and Readers
Anna Lewis: ‘“But solid food is for the mature, who …have their senses trained to discern good and evil”: John Colop’s Book and the Spiritual Diet of the Discerning Lay Londoner’
Anne Sutton: ‘The Acquisition and Disposal of Books for Worship and Pleasure by Mercers of London in the Later Middle Ages’
Martha Driver: ‘“By Me Elysabeth Pykeryng”: Women and Printing in the Early Tudor Period’
Shayne Husbands: ‘The Roxburghe Club: Consumption, Obsession and the Passion for Print’
Section III - Consuming the Text: Writing Consumption
Carrie Griffin: ‘Reconsidering the Recipe: Materiality, Narrative and Text in Later Medieval Instructional MSS and Collections’
Anamaria Gellert: ‘Fools, “Folye” and Caxton’s Woodcut of the Pilgrims at Table’
John B. Friedman: ‘Anxieties at Table: Food and Drink in Chaucer’s Fabliaux Tales and Heinrich Wittenwiler’s Der Ring’
Mary Morse: ‘Alongside St. Margaret: The Childbirth Cult of SS Quiricus and Julitta in Late Medieval English Manuscripts’
Emma Cayley: ‘Consuming the Text: Pulephilia in Fifteenth-Century French Debate Poetry’
Emma Cayley is Senior Lecturer in French and Head of Modern Languages at the University of Exeter
Susan Powell holds a Chair in Medieval Texts and Culture in the School of Languages and Social Sciences at the University of Salford
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