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The Cambridge History of the book in Britain Vol. 2: 1100–1400

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1100–1400

Series The Cambridge History of the book in Britain, Volume 2

Edited by Nigel Morgan and Rodney M. Thomson

Publication Date 2008

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521782180

Hardback ISBN-10
052178218X

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521782180

Overview

This is the first history of the book in Britain from the Norman Conquest until the early fifteenth century. The twenty-six expert contributors to this volume discuss the manuscript book from a variety of angles: as physical object (manufacture, format, writing and decoration); its purpose and readership (books for monasteries, for the Church's liturgy, for elementary and advanced instruction, for courtly entertainment); and as the vehicle for particular types of text (history, sermons, medical treatises, law and administration, music). In all of this, the broader, changing social and cultural context is kept in mind, and so are the various connections with continental Europe. The volume includes a full bibliography and 80 black and white plates.

For more details of the
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1100–1400 in the Cambridge University Press online
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Frontmatter

Preface
by
Rodney M. Thomson and Nigel Morgan

The roles of books

Book production

Readership, libraries, texts and contexts

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