商品簡介
Our knowledge of the past derives from texts: manuscripts, printed books, maps, music, graphic images. The seven volumes of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain will help explain how these texts were created, why they took the forms they did, their relations with other media and what influence they had on the minds and actions of those who heard, read or viewed them. They investigate the creation, material production, dissemination and reception of texts, effectively plotting the intellectual history of Britain.
This is the first comprehensive survey of the history of the book in Britain from Roman through Anglo-Saxon to early Norman times. The expert contributions explore the physical form of books, including their codicology, script and decoration, examine the circulation and exchange of manuscripts and texts between England, Ireland, the Celtic realms and the Continent, discuss the production, presentation and use of different classes of texts, ranging from fine service books to functional school-books, and evaluate the libraries that can be associated with particular individuals and institutions. The result is an authoritative account of the first millennium of the history of books, manuscript-making, and literary culture in Britain which, intimately linked to its cultural contexts, sheds vital light on broader patterns of political, ecclesiastical and cultural history extending from the period of the Vindolanda writing tablets through the age of Bede and Alcuin to the time of Domesday Book.
作者簡介
Richard Gameson is Professor of the History of the Book at Durham University. He has published over seventy studies of medieval manuscripts, book culture, and art history, including The Early Medieval Bible (1994), The Role of Art in the Late Anglo-Saxon Church (1995), St Augustine and the Conversion of England (1999), The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (1999), Codex Aureus: An Eighth-Century Gospel-Book (2001--2), and The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral (2008).
