Paper in medieval England: from pulp to fictions

Orietta Da Rold provides a detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. Looking beyond book production, Da Rold maps out the uses of paper and explains the success of this technology in medieval culture, consi...

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1. Verfasser: Da Rold, Orietta 1971- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in medieval literature
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Zusammenfassung:Orietta Da Rold provides a detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. Looking beyond book production, Da Rold maps out the uses of paper and explains the success of this technology in medieval culture, considering how people interacted with it and how it affected their lives. Offering a nuanced understanding of how affordance influenced societal choices, Paper in Medieval England draws on a multilingual array of sources to investigate how paper circulated, was written upon, and was deployed by people across medieval society, from kings to merchants, to bishops, to clerks and to poets, contributing to an understanding of how medieval paper changed communication and shaped modernity
Beschreibung:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Sep 2020)
Paper and culture in medieval England: An introduction -- Paper stories -- The economics of paper -- Writing on paper -- The character of paper and its use in medieval books -- Paper in the medieval literary imagination -- Epilogue: The age of paper
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 270 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108886536
DOI:10.1017/9781108886536

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