Text in the Community - 9780268034962

Text in the CommunityEssays on Medieval Works, Manuscripts, Authors, and Readers\nAuthor(s): Jill Mann, Maura Nolan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268034962, 978-0268034962\nSynopsis\nThe Text in the Community brings together essays by a diverse group of medievalists to consider the multiple ways in which readers approach texts and manuscripts as part of \""communities\"" of readers, authors, scribes, and scholars. The central premise of this volume is that texts do not exist in isolation. Each written work is embedded in contextsliterary, historical, geographical, social, political, and religiousand derives its meaning in part from the intersection of those contexts in the reader's experience of the text.\n\n This collection is distinguished by a variety of approaches to the study of medieval texts and manuscripts and by the capacious time frame in which they are located, extending fro.