Search Results for material book

... judgments, as they focus attention on the materiality of meaning, offering an unexpected perspective on the way books are consumed, defined, and catalogued. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 early modern books Passion cycle engravings Marten de Vos manual alterations cutting and pasting...

...James Kearney © by Duke University Press 2002 The Book and the Fetish: The Materiality of Prospero’s Text James Kearney Yale University...

...Susan Frye © by Duke University Press 2002 Materializing Authorship in Esther Inglis’s Books Susan Frye University of Wyoming...

... as chymistry, these writers probe the boundaries of art and nature, the mechanical and liberal arts, and the ordinary and alchemical. Further, because of readers’ familiarity and proximity to linen and paper, the material book offered proof of chymistry's usefulness, grounded in the tacit knowledge of daily...

...Jean Balsamo The editorial process of a book's production—far from a minor material detail in its formation or an anecdotal event of publishing history—constitutes a meaningful aspect of its elaboration as a literary work, as significant as the author's biography. Indeed, book history...

...Joel Swann The lively contemporary reception of George Herbert’s book of poems The Temple has been clearly demonstrated by a substantial body of modern scholarship. This article shows how that body of work can be complemented through material evidence of readership drawn from from specific copies...

... history to encompass material practices that persisted across the medieval-early modern divide, we find in English book culture a deeper tradition of “craft” textualities than modern catalogs and bibliographic protocols permit us to see. This essay traces the spread of needlework in books from basic...

..., and the unknown — and scholarship on the material evidence of their use of bibles, their responsive markings, and their methods of biblical allusion tell an increasingly detailed and coherent story about book use and interpretive culture. Milton’s own poetry gives us some hint as to how much...

... Collected by … Sir Dudly Digges Knight, late Master of the Rolls.” However, this survey of seventeen of the twenty-six or more extant manuscripts containing the same material raises questions about the work’s connection with Digges. The article shows how the printed book derived from letters that had been...

...Whitney Trettien As early efforts to include women in the canon of Renaissance literature give way to gender-oriented research in material culture and book history, it is increasingly the scholar's task to marry the language of ideological negotiation to a more wide-ranging investigation...

... of the ways a medieval poet could harness the material forms of books to achieve specific literary ends. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 medieval Bible Geoffrey Chaucer manuscript compilation biblical reception biblical influence...

...Andrea Denny-Brown A medieval and early modern “best seller,” William Durandus's monumental late-thirteenth-century liturgical treatise, Rationale Divinorum Officiorum , offered its readers a definitive, codified explanation for almost every aspect of church symbolism. A close look at its book...

... the book's annotator as John Bois (1561–1644), one of the principal translators of the King James Bible of 1611. The article explains why this and other material pertaining to Bois and the King James Version has previously been overlooked and considers how further evidence might be uncovered in the future...

...Emma Lipton The York Memorandum Books feature both legal documents and dramatic records, suggesting that civic drama was defined by its engagement with legal as well as religious and guild practices. This essay argues that York’s Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem uses the legal paradigms of charter...

... to the rest of the world that has offered a goldmine to scholars seeking material for the study of Europe's attitudes toward foreign others. Only quite recently, however, has any study been devoted to the compilations' complicated history as a book in and of itself. Yet the India Occidentales or America...

... Religious Cultures, 1350 – 1700 (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010). 17 Caroline Walker Bynum, Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe (New York: Zone Books, 2011); Sarah Beckwith, Christ’s Body; Beckwith, Sig- nifying God: Social...

... the material context of the early sixteenth century: that is, mediated by the bound book. Early in the next century, Thomas Gataker describes the sortes Virgilianae in the Historia Augusta similarly as “opening the booke sodainely [and taking] that which they first lighted on for an answere...

... and Religious Reading  527 and professions in colophons as a way to appropriate the material book, their property, and to lay claim to the transcribed texts, very often of a religious and devotional nature. All professional groups are represented in the colo- phons and ownership marks, from low to high...

... of Faustus  337 Magic books and Mass books In the first scene of Doctor Faustus, Faustus works through (but does not work out) the connections between sacramental and satanic ritual at the level of the material book. Marlowe shows from first to last how the books Faustus reads, the language he...

... of poetry. Cavendish’s first book nevertheless invites such analysis, for its famous prefatory material shapes the book’s place among other books published in the mid–seventeenth century. Because prefaces record emerg- ing assumptions about the production, circulation...