Manuscripts of the Latin Classics 800-1200

Editor: Erik Kwakkel

About this book

This volume 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.

Contributions by Robert Gary Babcock, David T. Gura, Erik Kwakkel, Irene O’Daly, Mariken Teeuwen and Rodney Thomson.

Erik Kwakkel is historian of the medieval book and professor at the University of British Columbia. Kwakkel is a member of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine. He actively promotes the premodern book on his blog Medievalbooks.nl and through Twitter.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 224

Illustrated: Yes

ISBN Print: 9789087282264

ISBN ePUB: 9789400602113

ISBN ePDF: 9789400602106

Published: 23 April 2015

Language: English

Price 48.00

Reviews

John J. Contreni, Purdue University, The Medieval Review 2017
“The essays and abundant images in this slim, handsome volume add additional evidence uncovering how classical learning became Europeanized and a constituent part of the amalgam that made up Western European culture until the nineteenth century. Manuscripts of the Latin Classics, 800-1200 joins its predecessors as a worthy companion in the Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture series. Each of the essays has something new and thought -provoking to say about book culture from its particular perspective.”
“These six engaging essays all treat classical texts in medieval manuscripts from a variety of perspectives but always with an eye on physical traits and the contemporary cultural milieux. We all know we should not judge a book by its cover, a saying especially appropriate for the present publication, as it contains far greater riches than its modest format and slender appearance would have you believe.”
“Again, this is a well-edited volume of engaging, innovative and path-blazing papers. The book represents an impressive contribution to scholarship on a variety of medieval topics as well as a number of classical authors and texts.”
“Altogether this expert, useful, and broad-ranging volume merits the epithet “innovative”. Each essay is researched and developed to the highest standard. The color plates at the end of the volume augment the black-and-white photographs and diagrams within the chapters. Scholars of classical reception in the Middle Ages will welcome this fine addition to the material history of that field, and professors can direct students to the essays collected here in confidence that the expositions will be at once accessible and reliably informative. Manuscripts of the Latin Classics 800-1200 enters the field with great energy and will be a significant influence long into the future”
John J. Contreni, Purdue University, The Medieval Review 2017
“The essays and abundant images in this slim, handsome volume add additional evidence uncovering how classical learning became Europeanized and a constituent part of the amalgam that made up Western European culture until the nineteenth century. Manuscripts of the Latin Classics, 800-1200 joins its predecessors as a worthy companion in the Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture series. Each of the essays has something new and thought -provoking to say about book culture from its particular perspective.”
“These six engaging essays all treat classical texts in medieval manuscripts from a variety of perspectives but always with an eye on physical traits and the contemporary cultural milieux. We all know we should not judge a book by its cover, a saying especially appropriate for the present publication, as it contains far greater riches than its modest format and slender appearance would have you believe.”
“Again, this is a well-edited volume of engaging, innovative and path-blazing papers. The book represents an impressive contribution to scholarship on a variety of medieval topics as well as a number of classical authors and texts.”
“Altogether this expert, useful, and broad-ranging volume merits the epithet “innovative”. Each essay is researched and developed to the highest standard. The color plates at the end of the volume augment the black-and-white photographs and diagrams within the chapters. Scholars of classical reception in the Middle Ages will welcome this fine addition to the material history of that field, and professors can direct students to the essays collected here in confidence that the expositions will be at once accessible and reliably informative. Manuscripts of the Latin Classics 800-1200 enters the field with great energy and will be a significant influence long into the future”

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