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Fruits of learning : the transfer of encyclopaedic knowledge in the early Middle Ages / edited by Rolf H. Bremmer Jr and Kees Dekker.
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English
Published/Created
Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2016.
©2016
Description
409 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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AZ321 .F78 2016
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Subject(s)
Learning and scholarship
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History
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Medieval, 500-1500
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Congresses
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Transmission of texts
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Europe
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History
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To 1500
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Europe
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Manuscripts, English (Old)
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Language and languages
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Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
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Related name
Storehouses of Wholesome Learning (Project)
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Editor
Bremmer, Rolf H. (Rolf Hendrik), 1950-
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Dekker, Cornelis, 1961-
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Conference papers and proceedings
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proceedings (reports)
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Series
Mediaevalia Groningana ; new ser., v. 21.
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Storehouses of Wholesome Learning (Project) (Series) ; 4.
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Storehouses of wholesome learning ; 4
Mediaevalia Groningana ; new series, volume 21
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Summary note
Encyclopaedic knowledge - factual knowledge of the divine and human worlds - had profound effects on intellectual activities in the early Middle Ages and its aftermath. Authors and scribes were raised in an intellectual and didactic tradition in which the acquisition and development of encyclopaedic knowledge was highly valued. Their concern with the elementary aspects of time, language, world history, God's creation and the Bible informed their activities as compilers of manuscripts or as producers of texts. They reaped the fruits of the learning that had grown over the centuries, digested them, or discarded them, or caused them to re-emerge after a long period of time and be used for purposes quite different from those for which they had originally been cultivated. The varieties of such fruit are as diverse as encyclopaedic learning itself, involving musicology, epistolography, liturgy, the study of grammar, codicology, the establishment of reading programmes, the writing of history and, perhaps most prominently, the compilation and promulgation of glosses and glossaries - one of the most essential disciplines in early medieval learning. The present volume casts light on the way in which encyclopaedic knowledge came to fruition in the ever expanding and diversifying world of medieval learning. Resulting from the fourth workshop in the 'Storehouses of Wholesome Learning' project, it builds on the foundations laid by its predecessors. The contributors discuss the influence of encyclopaedic knowledge in their respective fields of expertise. Their generous responses have provided a rich palette of new insights into medieval intellectual culture. Their articles deepen our understanding of medieval learning in its ability to instrumentalise the knowledge inherited from the classical world in the creation of new cultures of wisdom.
Notes
Fourth and final volume of the project, "Storehouses of Wholesome Learning"; from the fourth workshop, held in Palermo in 2009.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language note
In English.
Contents
List of abbreviations
Gleaning the fruits of learning in the heat of the day / Rolf H. Bremmer Jr and Kees Dekker
Manuscripts
The juxtaposition of music and grammar : some case studies / Susan Rankin, University of Cambridge
Beyond long line and column : experiments in the visual structure of knowledge in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts / László Sándor Chardonnens, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Taking stock : booklists as evidence of medieval reading culture / Jenny Weston, Universiteit Leiden
The preservation, transmission and use of papal letters in Anglo-Saxon England / Francesca Tinti, Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation of Science)
Cassiodorus's institutiones in Anglo-Saxon England : the manuscripts / Filippa Alcamesi, Università degli Studi di Palermo
London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian D. xiv, fols. 4-169 : a case study of an English post-conquest miscellaneous manuscript / Claudia Di Sciacca, Università degli Studi di Udine
Salzburg Museum MS 2163 : a Salzburg miscellany and the Circle of Alcuin / Charles D. Wright, University of Urbana-Champaign
Texts
Gathering wood from patristic forests : sourcing King Alfred's Book III of Augustine's Soliloquia / Rosella Tinaburri, Università degli Studi di Cassino
Canonising just and militant kingship : St Oswald in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and Ælfric's Natale Sancti Oswaldi regis et martyris / Karin Olsen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Glosses and glossaries
A maze of glosses and glossaries : Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLF 24 / Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Universiteit Leiden, Kees Dekker, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Isidore's Etymologiae and the Bilingual Antwerp-London Glossary / Loredana Lazzari, Libera Università degli Studi Maria SS. Assunta di Roma
The harvest of ancient learning : healthy fruits or rotten apples? / Mariken Teeuwen, Universiteit Utrecht, Huygens Instituut, the Hague Sinead O'Sullivan, Queen's University, Belfast
Grammatical glosses in London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. iii : a systematic model in the study of Latin / Maria Caterina De Bonis, Università degli Studi della Basilicata
The Scholica Graecarum glossarum and Scaliger's 'Liber glossarum ex variis glossariis collectus' / Patrizia Lendinara, Università degli Studi di Palermo
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Index of manuscripts.
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ISBN
9789042933378 ((pbk.))
9042933372 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2016479213
OCLC
960741013
Other standard number
99971603494
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