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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      17 September 2020
      01 October 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108886536
      9781108840576
      9781108814287
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886536
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 296 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 296 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Printing and Publishing History, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (112)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Printing and Publishing History, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (112)
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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.

    Reviews

    ‘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 Source: 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 Source: Manuscript Studies

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