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"Between roughly 1350 and 1500, the English vernacular became established as a language of literary, bureaucratic, devotional and controversial writing; metropolitan artisans formed guilds for the production and sale of books for the first time; and Gutenberg's and eventually Caxton's printed books reached their first English consumers. This book gathers the best new work on manuscript books in England made during this crucial but neglected period. Its authors survey existing research, gather intensive new evidence and develop new approaches to key topics. The chapters cover the material conditions and economy of the book trade; amateur production both lay and religious; the effects of censorship; and the impact on English book production of manuscripts and artisans from elsewhere in the British Isles and Europe. A wide-ranging and innovative series of essays, this volume is a major contribution to the history of the book in medieval England"--

Book history --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1300-1399 --- Great Britain --- Books --- Book industries and trade --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Scriptoria --- Incunabula --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- History --- Bibliography --- 091 <41> --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Copying rooms --- Writing rooms --- Rooms --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Monasteries --- Monastic libraries --- Medieval manuscripts --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- Early printed books --- Cradle books (Early printed books) --- Incunables --- Library materials --- Publications --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Reproduction --- Books - England - History - 400-1450 --- Book industries and trade - England - History - To 1500 --- Manuscripts, Medieval - England - History - To 1500 --- Scriptoria - England --- Incunabula - England - Bibliography --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) - Bibliography

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The medieval English West Midlands has long been associated with the production of vernacular texts, in Old and Middle English, and with the making of several famous manuscripts. The aim of this volume is to re-think assumptions about medieval literature and the region in the light of new research in medieval book history. A series of specially commissioned essays in ‘manuscript geography’ examines the making and use of texts and books in relation to cultural networks in the region and beyond. Included are case studies of manuscripts of Worcester and the Worcester diocese from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries; investigations of manuscript production in fourteenth-century Shropshire and its wider regional links; and essays on textual cultures in Warwickshire from the activities of the aristocrats and gentry of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to the projects of later antiquarians. Essays in the final section of the volume reflect on the possibilities of large-scale, corpus-based research on medieval manuscript books. Collectively the essays identify and explore some of the investments of traditional regionalist accounts of vernacular literary culture and model new theoretical and methodological approaches.

Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Manuscripts, English (Old) --- Manuscripts, English --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Books --- Books and reading --- Manuscript preparation (Authorship) --- History. --- History --- British Library. --- West Midlands (England) --- Intellectual life. --- 091 <41> --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- English manuscripts --- Anglo-Saxon manuscripts --- English manuscripts, Old --- Manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon --- Manuscripts, Old English --- Old English manuscripts --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- Preparation of manuscripts (Authorship) --- Authorship --- Editing --- Printing --- Word processing --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- British Museum. --- West Midlands, Eng. --- West Midlands (England : Metropolitan County) --- West Midlands (England : Region) --- West Midlands County (England) --- County of West Midlands (England) --- West Midlands Region (England) --- Herefordshire (England) --- Shropshire (England) --- Staffordshire (England) --- Worcestershire (England) --- Warwickshire (England) --- England --- West Midlands --- Manuscripts [English ] (Middle) --- Manuscripts [English ] (Old) --- Manuscripts [Medieval ] --- Intellectual life --- English language --- books --- manuscripts [documents] --- history [discipline] --- anno 1000-1099 --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1100-1199 --- West Midlands [region] --- Art --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) - England - West Midlands - History. --- Manuscripts, English (Old) - England - West Midlands - History. --- Manuscripts, English - History - To 1500. --- Manuscripts, Medieval - England - History. --- Manuscripts, Medieval - England - West Midlands - History. --- Books - England - History - 400-1450. --- Books and reading - England - West Midlands - History. --- Books and reading - England - History - To 1500. --- Manuscript preparation (Authorship) - England - West Midlands - History. --- West Midlands (England) - Intellectual life.