New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies - 9781903153017

New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript StudiesEssays from the 1998 Harvard Conference\nAuthor(s): Derek Pearsall, A.I. Doyle, Alison Stones, C. David Benson, Eckehard Simon, J P Gumbert, John J Thompson, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Linne R Mooney, Martha W. Driver\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: York Medieval Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: York Medieval Press\nISBN-13: 9781903153017, 978-1903153017\nSynopsis\nInfluential scholars from Britain and North America discuss future directions in rapidly expanding field of manuscript study.\n\nThe study of manuscripts is one of the most active areas of current research in medieval studies: manuscripts are the basic primary material evidence for literary scholars, historians and art-historians alike, and there has been an explosion of interest over the past twenty years.\n\n Manuscript study has developed enormously: codices are no longer treated as inert witnesses to a culture whose character has already been determined by the modern scholar, .