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Touching Parchment
| العنوان: | Touching Parchment |
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| المؤلفون: | Rudy, Kathryn |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | Books Imported or submitted locally |
| Original Material: | 23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medieval book, religious, secular, touching, handling, rituals, thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WC Antiques, vintage and collectables::WCS Antiques, vintage and collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera and printed matter, thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology, thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC2 Material culture, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC6 Cultural studies: customs and traditions |
| الوصف: | The Medieval book, both religious and secular, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of its use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy’s research in Touching Parchment. Rudy presents numerous and fascinating case studies that relate to the evidence of use and damage through touching and or kissing. She also puts each study within a category of different ways of handling books, mainly liturgical, legal or choral practice, and in turn connects each practice to the horizontal or vertical behavioural patterns of users within a public or private environment. With her keen eye for observation in being able to identify various characteristics of inadvertent and targeted ware, the author adds a new dimension to the Medieval book. She gives the reader the opportunity to reflect on the social, anthropological and historical value of the use of the book by sharpening our senses to the way users handled books in different situations. Rudy has amassed an incredible amount of material for this research and the way in which she presents each manuscript conveys an approach that scholars on Medieval history and book materiality should keep in mind when carrying out their own research. What perhaps is most striking in her articulate text, is how she expresses that the touching of books was not without emotion, and the accumulated effects of these emotions are worthy of preservation, study and further reflection. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | book |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-80064-959-0 978-1-80064-960-6 978-1-80064-965-1 978-1-80064-964-4 978-1-80064-962-0 978-1-80064-963-7 1-80064-959-2 1-80064-960-6 1-80064-965-7 1-80064-964-9 1-80064-962-2 1-80064-963-0 |
| DOI: | 10.11647/OBP.0337 |
| URL الوصول: | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62481 |
| Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| ملاحظات: | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0337 ScholarLed |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsoap.20.500.12657.62481 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OAPEN Library |
| ردمك: | 9781800649590 9781800649606 9781800649651 9781800649644 9781800649620 9781800649637 1800649592 1800649606 1800649657 1800649649 1800649622 1800649630 |
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| DOI: | 10.11647/OBP.0337 |