Manuscript Culture in Renaissance Italy

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-107-42552-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Even after the arrival of printing in the fifteenth century, texts continued to be circulated within Italian society by means of manuscript. Scribal culture offered rapidity, flexibility and a sense of private, privileged communication. This book is a detailed treatment of the continuing use of scribal transmission in Renaissance Italy. Brian Richardson explores the uses of scribal culture within specific literary genres, its methods and its audiences. He also places it within the wider system of textual communication and of self-presentation, examining the relationships between manuscript and print and between manuscript and the spoken or sung performance of verse. An important contribution to a lively area of the history of the book, this study will be of interest both for the abundance of new material on the circulation of texts in Italy and as a model for how to study the cultures of manuscript and print in early modern Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richardson, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Italienische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. The contexts and characteristics of manuscript circulation; 2. Handwriting and the work of copyists; 3. The manuscript circulation of lyric and burlesque poetry; 4. The manuscript circulation of prose; 5. Authors and their readers: dedications and other paratexts; 6. Orality, manuscript and the circulation of verse; Conclusion; Index of manuscripts; Bibliography; General index.

Über Autor(innen)

Richardson, Brian
Brian Richardson is Professor of Italian Language at the University of Leeds.