Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books
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Åslaug Ommundsen, "Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments: The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books"
English | ISBN: 1472478584 | 2017 | 322 pages | AZW3 | 10 MB
Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the fragments of medieval manuscripts re-used as bookbindings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Such fragments provide a tantalizing, yet often problematic glimpse into the manuscript culture of the Middle Ages. Exploring the opportunities and difficulties such documents provide, this volume concentrates on the c. 50,000 fragments of medieval Latin manuscripts stored in archives across the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This large collection of fragments (mostly from liturgical works) provides rich evidence about European Latin book culture, both in general and in specific relation to the far north of Europe, one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity.




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