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The ‘Long Twelfth Century’ (1075–1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the‘Twelfth-Century Renaissance’ as its point of departure to provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of Western Europe. Written by senior scholars, chapters are divided among three sections: the technical aspects of making books; the processes and practices of reading and keeping books; and the transmission of texts in the disciplines that saw significant change in the period, including medicine, law, philosophy, liturgy and theology. Richly illustrated, this volume provides the first in-depth account of book production as a European phenomenon.
erik kwakkel is Professor at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His research is devoted to the relationship between the physical appearance of manuscripts and the historical context in which they were produced and used. His publications include Turning Over a New Leaf: Change and Development in the Medieval Book (2012), co-authored with Rosamond McKitterick and Rodney Thomson; Manuscript of the Latin Classics 800–1200 (2015); Writing in Context: Insular Manuscript Culture 500–1200 (2013) and Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice (2012), coedited with Stephen Partridge.
rodney thomson (faha) is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Tasmania. His publications include Books and Learning in Twelfth-Century England: The Ending of ‘Alter Orbis’ (2006) and, as co-editor with Nigel Morgan, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain 2: The Manuscript Book c.1100–1400 (2008). Professor Thomson has compiled descriptive catalogues of manuscript collections held at Lincoln, Hereford and Worcester Cathedrals, of Merton and Corpus Christi Colleges, Oxford, and Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Contributors
nicolas bell is Librarian and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Until 2015 he was a curator in the music department of the British Library. His publications include companion studies to facsimiles of two medieval music manuscripts, as well as articles on medieval liturgy and music. He is General Secretary of the Henry Bradshaw Society, founded in 1890 for the publication of rare liturgical texts, and is a member of the Council of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society.
charles burnett is Professor of the History of Arabic/Islamic Influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London. His research centres on the transmission of texts, techniques and artefacts from the Arab world to the West, especially in the Middle Ages. He has documented this transmission by editing and translating into English several texts that were translated from Arabic into Latin, and also by describing the historical and cultural context of these translations. Among his books are The Introduction of Arabic Learning into England (1997), Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages: The Translators and Their Intellectual and Social Context (2009) and Numerals and Arithmetic in the Middle Ages (2010).
monica h. green is a historian of medieval European medicine and global health. An elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, she has published extensively on the history of women’s healthcare, including her edition of The ‘Trotula’: A Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine (2001) and her monograph, Making Women’s Medicine Masculine: The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology (2008) both of which were based on surveys of hundreds of Latin and vernacular manuscripts. She has also engaged with the fields of palaeogenetics and palaeopathology as ways to help reconstruct the history of humankind’s major infectious diseases. A focal point of her continuing work is the radical transition in European medicine in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, which was the first field to begin to absorb the learned theories and practices recently coming out of the Islamic world. She has several studies forthcoming on Constantine the African and medicine at Monte Cassino.
martin kauffmann wrote his doctoral thesis at the Courtauld Institute in London on thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman illustrated saints’ Lives. He is now Head of Early and Rare Collections and Tolkien Curator of Medieval Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, and a member of the Faculty of History. He has written articles and contributed to exhibition catalogues on illuminated manuscripts ranging from Ottonian Germany to fifteenth-century England. Most recently he has been working on the conjunction of images and prayers in the prefatory cycle of an English twelfth-century psalter.
erik kwakkel is Professor at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where he teaches the history of the book. His research interests are related to quantitative palaeography and the development of the manuscript’s physical features over time. He has edited several volumes on the production context of manuscripts for Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture, a book series published by Leiden University Press. At Leiden University he directed the NWOsponsored project ‘Turning Over a New Leaf’ (2010–2015), which studied manuscript culture in the twelfth century. The project brought together the scholars whose work is united in the present publication. In 2015 Kwakkel was appointed to the Comité International de Paléographie Latine (CIPL). john marenbon is a Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Medieval Philosophy in the University of Cambridge. His two most recent books are Medieval Philosophy, A Very Short Introduction (2016) and Pagans and Philosophers: The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz (2015).
constant j. mews gained his BA and MA from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and his DPhil from Oxford University. He is Professor within the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University, where he is also Director of the Centre for Religious Studies. He has published widely on medieval thought, ethics and religious culture, with particular reference to the writings of Abelard, Heloise, Hildegard of Bingen and their contemporaries, including Abelard and Heloise (2005) and The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France, 2nd edn. (2008). His research interests range from the early Middle Ages to late medieval religious and intellectual culture, as well as the interface between various religious and ethical traditions. irene o’daly is a Researcher at Huygens ING, a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). From 2011 to 2014 she was a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University on the project ‘Turning Over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth Century.’ Her principal research interests include medieval intellectual history, the history of classical reception and the history of the book. She has published on the influence of Roman philosophy on the political thought of John of Salisbury, and on the use of diagrammatic annotation in medieval Ciceronian rhetorical manuscripts. Her current research concerns traditions of visualising knowledge and debate in medieval theological manuscripts. judith olszowy-schlanger is Professor of Hebrew Palaeography and Manuscript Studies at the École pratique des hautes études, Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, Paris. She holds a doctorate from the University of Cambridge and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Her main research interests are in medieval Hebrew palaeography, Cairo Genizah studies, Jewish–Christian intellectual relations during the European Middle Ages and Hebrew diplomatics. Her publications include Les manuscrits hébreux dans l'Angleterre médiévale: étude historique et paléographique (2003). nigel f. palmer fba is Emeritus Professor of German Medieval and Linguistic Studies at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall. He is a corresponding fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. His main areas of research are medieval German and Latin religious literature, palaeography and codicology, and early printing. His doctoral thesis, from 1976, was on the German and Dutch reception of the Visio Tnugdali, and he has published extensively on blockbooks. His most recent major publication, jointly with Jeffrey F. Hamburger, is the Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin, 2 vols. (2015). charles m. radding is Professor of History at Michigan State University. He is interested in medieval cultural history, with a specialization in the development of scholarly disciplines between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. His books include A World Made by Men: Cognition and Society 400–1200 (1985) and The Origins of Medieval Jurisprudence: Pavia and Bologna, 850–1150 (1988). ian short is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of London. He also taught at the University of California, Berkeley and at Paris Nanterre University. His principal fields of research are eleventhcentury literary culture in Britain, and Anglo-Norman language and literature. He is president of the Anglo-Norman Text Society, and was its secretary from 1974 until 2011. He has published widely and has edited a number of medieval French texts. He is co-author (together with Maria Careri and Christine Ruby) of Livres et écritures en français et en occitan au XIIe siècle: Catalogue illustré (2011). lesley smith is Professor of Medieval Intellectual History at Oxford University. She studies the Bible and its commentaries, both as physical and as intellectual objects. Recent work includes The Glossa Ordinaria: The Making of a Medieval Bible Commentary (2009) and The Ten Commandments: Interpreting the Bible in the Medieval World (2014). caterina tarlazzi is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, and a Research Associate of St John’s College Cambridge. She works on a project called ‘Logic in the Early Twelfth Century: A Manuscript-Based Approach.’ She was awarded her PhD (Doctor Europaeus) in Medieval Philosophy in 2013, in a co-tutelle programme between Paris-Sorbonne University and Università degli Studi di Padova. Her thesis (Individui universali. Il realismo di Gualtiero di Mortagne nel XII secolo) was awarded the 2014 Ana María Aldama Roy Prize for medieval studies. She works on logic in the time of Peter Abelard and has a particular interest in the manuscripts transmitting twelfthcentury philosophical texts. mariken teeuwen studied musicology and medieval studies at Utrecht University. She is Senior Researcher at Huygens ING, a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and Professor at the Department of History and Art History, University of Utrecht, where she teaches the transmission of medieval Latin texts. She is Principal Investigator of the NWO-funded research projects ‘Marginal Scholarship: The Practice of Learning in the Early Middle Ages (c. 800–c. 1000)’ (2011–16), and ‘The Art of Reasoning: Practices of Scientific Argumentation in the Middle Ages (ca. 400–1400)’ (2016–20).
Her publications focus on the medieval reception of the ancient learned tradition, the vocabulary of intellectual life in the Middle Ages and practices of annotating manuscripts. rodney thomson is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Tasmania. He has published extensively on books and learning in medieval Europe, with special attention to England from the Norman Conquest to the early thirteenth century. In 2000–1 he was Lyell Reader in Bibliography at Oxford University and in February 2017 he delivered the Lowe Lectures in Palaeography at Corpus Christi College. He has compiled descriptive catalogues of the medieval manuscripts held by three English cathedrals, and by Merton and Corpus Christi Colleges, Oxford and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He has also studied the English Benedictine monk and scholar William of Malmesbury (d. 1143). He is Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries.
teresa webber is University Reader in Palaeography in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She has published widely on the history of the production, ownership and use of books in Britain in the twelfth century. She is the author of Scribes and Scholars at Salisbury Cathedral c. 1075–c. 1125 (1992) and co-editor of The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, Volume I: To 1640 (2006) and The Libraries of the Augustinian Canons, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogue, vol. 6 (1998). She is currently completing for publication a major study of public reading and its books in monastic practice in England, ca. 1000–ca. 1300, which was the subject of the lectures she gave as Oxford University’s J. P. R. Lyell Reader in Bibliography, 2015–16.
jenny weston was awarded her PhD from Leiden University in 2015. As a junior researcher for the NWO-funded Vidi Project ‘Turning Over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance’ (Leiden University), Jenny specialised in manuscript studies, with a particular focus in reading and the material book. At present, Jenny teaches for the English Department at Rutgers University in New Jersey and is preparing a monograph on monastic reading practices in the twelfth century.
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