Paper in Medieval England :From Pulp to Fictions - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

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Paper in Medieval England

Paper in Medieval England :From Pulp to Fictions - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

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Orietta Da Rold provides a detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. Looking beyond book production, Da Rold maps out the uses of paper and explains the success of this technology in medieval culture, considering how people interacted with it and how it affected their lives. Offering a nuanced understanding of how affordance influenced societal choices, Paper in Medieval England draws on a multilingual array of sources to investigate how paper circulated, was written upon, and was deployed by people across medieval society, from kings to merchants, to bishops, to clerks and to poets, contributing to an understanding of how medieval paper changed communication and shaped modernity.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781108840576
ISBN10 1108840574
Number Of Pages 296
Item Weight 580 g
Product Dimensions 235 x 160 x 20 mm
Publisher / Reseller Cambridge University Press
Format hardback
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'Paper in Medieval England is a learned and judicious book, underpinned by Da Rold's deep and broad reading. While its argument offers several thoughtful interventions that will invite paleographers, cultural historians, and literary scholars to revisit some of their assumptions about paper, the real value of this monograph is more fundamental still: Da Rold's study restores paper to its rightful place in literary history.' Sebastian Sobecki, Speculum
'This is the great merit of Da Rold's book: it is a truly interdisciplinary study of paper in medieval England.' Joan A. Holladay, Manuscript Studies

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Author's Bio

Dr Orietta Da Rold is Lecturer in Literature and Material Text, 1100 to 1500 at the University of Cambridge. She is the Co-Director (with Elaine Treharne) of the successful AHRC-funded project and e-book, English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 and is currently editing the Cambridge Companion to British Manuscripts with Elaine Treharne.

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