Cultures of the Fragment
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"This is an original approach to a wide variety of texts produced in medieval and early modern Iberia that opens up interesting questions and lines of investigation, with a number of sparkling insights left for further exploration."
» Simone Pinet, Cornell University, <em>Speculum</em>
The majority of medieval and sixteenth-century Iberian manuscripts, whether in Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, or Aljamiado (Spanish written in Arabic script), contain fragments or are fragments. The term fragment is used to describe not only isolated bits of manuscript material with a damaged appearance, but also any piece of a larger text that was intended to be a fragment. Les mer
The author argues that while some manuscript fragments came about by accident, many were actually created on purpose and used in a number of ways, from binding materials, to anthology excerpts, and some fragments were even incorporated into sacred objects as messages of good luck. Examining four main motifs of fragmentation, including intention, physical appearance, metonymy, and performance, this work reveals the centrality of the fragment to manuscript studies, highlighting the significance of the fragment to Iberia’s multicultural and multilingual manuscript culture.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Toronto Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781487502409
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
- Priser
- Winner of 2020 La coronica International Book Award 2020 United States and 2020 Ewart-Daveluy Award Indexing Society of Canada | La Societe canadienne d'indexation 2021 Canada.
Anmeldelser
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"This is an original approach to a wide variety of texts produced in medieval and early modern Iberia that opens up interesting questions and lines of investigation, with a number of sparkling insights left for further exploration."
» Simone Pinet, Cornell University, <em>Speculum</em>
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"Such a study in English that discusses many of the unique factors of manuscript and book culture in medieval and early modern Iberia is rare."
» Michelle M. Hamilton, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, <em>University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018</em>