Designing English: Early Literature on the Page - Hardcover

Wakelin, Daniel

 
9781851244751: Designing English: Early Literature on the Page
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1851244751 ISBN 13: 9781851244751
Verlag: Bodleian Library, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Early manuscripts in the English language included religious works, plays, romances, poetry, and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, and scientific documents. Given this vast array, how did scribes choose to arrange the words and images on the page, and what visual guides did they give early readers to help them use and understand each manuscript?

Working beyond the traditions established for Latin, scribes of English needed to be more inventive, using each book as an opportunity to redesign. Surveying eight centuries of graphic design in manuscripts and inscriptions, Designing English focuses on the craft, agency, and intentions of scribes, painters, and engravers from the Anglo-Saxon to the early Tudor periods. The book examines format, layout, and decoration, as well as bilingual manuscripts and oral recitations, weighing the balance of ingenuity and copying, imagination and practicality, behind early English book design. With over ninety illustrations, drawn especially from the holdings of the Bodleian Library, Designing English gives a comprehensive overview of English books and other material texts across the Middle Ages.
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel Wakelin is Jeremy Griffiths Professor of Medieval English Palaeography in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford.
 

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Verlag
Bodleian Library
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1851244751
ISBN 13 
9781851244751
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
215
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