IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 622: The Codex as Microcosm: Late Medieval Multiple-Text Manuscripts
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), Universität Hamburg |
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| Organiser: | Malena Ratzke, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), Universität Hamburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Marco Heiles, Germanistisches Institut, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Universität Aachen |
| Paper 622-a | Worlds between Book Covers: Merchants' Notes and Handbooks from Late Medieval Italy (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Language and Literature - Italian, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 622-b | Cosmos and Care for Body and Soul in German One-Volume Libraries (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Language and Literature - German, Lay Piety, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 622-c | Printed Pages and Hand-Written Words: Incorporating Block Books in Late-Medieval Multiple-Text Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Printing History, Technology |
| Abstract | A codex, and especially a multiple-text manuscript, is a microcosm: a world in a nutshell that often mirrors the structure of something larger. It can tell us about how its producers or users perceived the world, their place within it and their intellectual climate. Some multiple-text manuscripts reflect individuals' perceptions of the social and/or natural world around them. Others collect specialist knowledge for members of a particular community or combine religious and scientific knowledge in an all-encompassing 'one-volume library'. This session explores connections - and tensions - between the microcosm of the book and the macrocosm of its cultural setting. |