| Text in the Community: Essays on Medieval Works, Manuscripts, Authors, and Readers Contributor(s): Mann, Jill (Editor), Nolan, Maura (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0268034958 ISBN-13: 9780268034955 Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press OUR PRICE: $99.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2006 Annotation: Brings together essays by a diverse group of medievalists to consider the multiple ways in which readers approach texts and manuscripts as part of various "communities" of readers, authors, scribes, and scholars. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval - History | Europe - Medieval - Literary Collections | Medieval |
| Dewey: 809.02 |
| LCCN: 2005035128 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.36" W x 9.28" (1.60 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Text in the Community brings together essays by a diverse group of medievalists to consider the multiple ways in which readers approach texts and manuscripts as part of communities of readers, authors, scribes, and scholars. The central premise of this volume is that texts do not exist in isolation. Each written work is embedded in contexts--literary, historical, geographical, social, political, and religious--and derives its meaning in part from the intersection of those contexts in the reader's experience of the text. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mann, Jill: - Jill Mann is Notre Dame Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.Nolan, Maura: - Maura Nolan is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. |