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"Dangerous work" : diary of an Arctic adventure

Obrazy
Autor
Arthur Conan Doyle ; ed. by Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower
Place of publication
London

Publisher

Publication date
2012
Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . vi
MAP . . vii
INTRODUCTION "I came of age at 80 degrees north latitude" . . 1

Facsimile of Arthur Conan Doyle's diary of his voyage as ship's surgeon aboard the Arctic whaler S.S. Hope, February 28 -August n, 1880 . . 17

Annotated transcript of Arthur Conan Doyle's diary of his voyage . . 219
"It was quite an ovation" Conan Doyle revisits the Arctic . . 303
Arthur Conan Doyle's Arctic writings . . 317
  The Glamour of the Arctic . . 319
  Life on a Greenland Whaler . . 326
  The Captain of the "Pole-Star" . . 335
  The Adventure of Black Peter . . 351
INDEX . . 365

The Lindisfarne gospels and the early medieval world

Obrazy
Autor
Michelle P. Brown
Place of publication
London

Publisher

Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

Introduction: the Significance of the Lindisfarne Gospels . . 35
The Text . . 35
Origins and Reception . . 36
What Did the Lindisfarne Gospels Mean to the Community of Faith and to its Maker? . . 38
What Did the Lindisfarne Gospels Mean to Wider Society? . . 39

1. The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels . . 41
The World View . . 41
  East meets West . . 44
The Historical Background in Britain and Ireland: Constructing the Cultural Landscape . . 45
  Emerging into History: Prehistoric Roots and Roman Imperium . . 45
  The Aftermath of Empire: the early Anglo-Saxons and their Conversion . . 48
  Rebuilding Rome in Britain . . 57
  Creating the Cult of St Cuthbert: a Rallying Point for Reconciliation in the North . . 60

2. The Biography of the Book . . 63
Aldred's Colophon and Community Tradition concerning the Making of the Lindisfarne Gospels . . 63
The Biographies of the Book's Makers . . 64
Transcription and Translation of Aldred's 'Colophon Group' . . 66
The Significance of Aldred's Additions . . 67
Genesis: the Book's Origins . . 70
The Scholarly Debate . . 70
The Lindisfarne Context for Production . . 71
The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Cult of St Cuthbert . . 72
The Viking Raid and the Later History of the Book . . 72
The Community of St Cuthbert - from Lindisfarne to Durham . . 74
Symeon of Durham and Possible References to the Lindisfarne Gospels in the Early 12th century . . 76
  Back to Lindisfarne? . . 77
The Dissolution and Later History . . 79
Later Medieval and Modern Additions and Ownership . . 79

3. The Text of the Lindisfarne Gospels . . 83
The Place of the Lindisfarne Gospels in the Dissemination of Scripture . . 84
Wearmouth-Jarrow, the Ceolfrith Bibles and their Influence . . 85
The Lindisfarne Gospels' Textual Stemma . . 87
The Jerome Prefaces, the Canon Tables and the Gospels' Prefatory Matter . . 91
The Liturgical Evidence . . 92
Lindisfarne, Wearmouth-Jarrow and the Roman Rite . . 93

4. The Word made word: the Palaeography of the Lindisfarne Gospels . . 95
The Text Script . . 95
The Lindisfarne Gospels and Insular Palaeography . . 95
  Palaeographical Description . . 100
  Punctuation . . 101
  Abbreviations . . 102
  Orthography . . 102
  Numerical Annotation and Corrections . . 102
Display Script and Major Initials . . 103
The Place of the Lindisfarne Gospels in Insular Display Scripts . . 104
The Use of Initials . . 105

5. The Art of the Lindisfarne Gospels . . 107
Decorated Incipit Pages and Initials . . 108
Painted Crosses, Painted Prayer-mats, Painted Prayer . . 109
The Evangelist Miniatures . . 114
Early Christian Context and Insular Reception . . 116
The Lindisfarne Evangelist Miniatures and the Insular Tradition . . 117
Ornament: the Menagerie of the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Vortex of Creation . . 123
Styles and Principles of Design .  125

6. The Making ot the Undisfarne Gospels . . 135
Technical Innovation Used in Planning the Layout . . 135
Divine Geometry . . 141
Palette and Painting Technique . . 143
Materials and Pigment Analysis . . 144
Naturalistic or Stylised, Iconic or Aniconic? Cultural Implications of the Fainting Style . . 148
Sacred Codicology: Assembly, Writing and Binding . . 149
  Procedures for Making a Medieval Manuscript . . 149
  The Membrane and Quires . . 150
Collation, Dimensions, Pricking and Ruling . . 151
Binding History . . 151
The Original Binding . . 151
The Nineteenth-Century Treasure Binding, the Earlier Treasure Binding and the Cottonian Rebinding . . 153

Conclusion . . 155
Preaching with the Pen: the Meaning and Making of the Lindisfarne Gospels . . 155

General Reading . . 162
Collations, Transcriptions, Glossaries and Printed Editions of the Text of the Lindisfarne Gospels . . 162
Notes . . 163
Bibliography . . 170
Index . . 176

The Taymouth Hours : stories and the construction of the self in late Medieval England

Obrazy
Autor
Kathryn A. Smith
Place of publication
London

Publisher

Publication date
2012
Table of Contents

List of Plates, Figures, Maps and Family Tree . . vi
Photographic Acknowledgements . . xviii
Acknowledgements . . xix
Abbreviations . . xxii

1 Introduction: Stories, Self and the Illustrated Devotional Manuscript . . 1
2 Sacred and Secular: The Anglo-Norman Devotions and their Illustration . . 61
3 Text and Image: The Latin Hours of the Holy Spirit, Trinity and Virgin and their Illustration . . 110
4 Temptation, Sin, Repentance and Redemption: From the Short Office of the Cross through the Office of the Dead . . 206
Afterword . . 293

Appendix: The Taymouth Hours . . 298
Bibliography . . 321
Index of Manuscripts Cited . . 350
Index . . 355

The book and the transformation of Britain, c.550-1050 : a study in written and visual literacy and orality

Obrazy
Autor
Michelle P. Brown
Place of publication
London

Publisher

Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

Introduction: What Does 'Literacy' Mean in this Period? . . 7

1. Conversion: Scribes, the Sacred and Social Change . . 13
   From Pamphlet to Pandect: the Codex and the Codification of Scripture The Book as Speculum of the Transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages . . 22
   Visualising Sound in Graphic Form: New Ways of Teaching and Learning . . 30
   Disseminating Scripture: Being the Book - the Scribe as Evangelist . . 44

2. Creating communities of reading . . 57
   The Rise of Written Vernacular Languages . . 60
   Women and the Book in the pre-Alfredian Era . . 73
   Inscriptions - words to be seen and not heard? . . 78
   Books and other Icons . . 85

3. Language, literature and libraries . . 99
   The Impetus of Incomers . . 99
   Official Intervention? Assessing the Alfredian Contribution . . 109
   Libraries: the Collection and Retention of Cultural Memory . . 127
   Women and other Bibliophiles . . 144
   The Last Word . . 149

Notes . . 157
Bibliography . . 171
List of Illustrations . .179
Index . . 181

Medieval German textrelations : translations, editions and studies : (Kalamazoo Papers 2010-2011)

Obrazy
Autor
ed. by Sibylle Jefferis
Place of publication
Göppingen

Publisher

Publication date
2012
Table of Contents

Foreword . . v

1. Low German Medieval Literature: Legends, Drama, Epics, Translations (2010)
"Geschichte und Legende in der niederdeutschen Literatur des Mittelalters: Balthasar von Esens und Dietrich von Bern in der Flugschrift Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Yf 8061 R". . . 1
"Stephan von Dorpat and His Low German Translation of the Disticha Catonis" . . 15
"Die mittelniederdeutschen Übertragungen aus dem Heiligenleben Hermanns von Fritzlar: Alexius und Von den Aposteln (mit Editionen)." . . 41

2. Medieval German (Heroic) Epics (2010)
"The Structure of Wigalois: Parallel Confrontations in the Christian/Arthurian and Heathen/Demonic Realms." . . 73
"The Experience of Exile in Medieval German Heroic Poetry." . . 83

3. Medieval German Chronicles: Welt-, Landes-,Stadt-, Fürsten-Chroniken and Others (2011)
"Die schlesische Prosabearbeitung Cronica von Schondochs Königin von Frankreich und der ungetreue Marschall (mit Neuedition)." . . 111

4. Low German Medieval Literature: Legends, Drama, Epics, Translations (2011)
"The 1518 Low German Edition of Hieronymus Brunschwig's Buch der Cirurgia and Its Terminology." . . 189
"The Redeemed Wizard: The Figure of Merlin in Der Rheinische Merlin." . . 255
"Influences of the Northern European Epic Tradition on the Reliefs of the Facade of the Basilica of San Zeno (mit 24 Abbildungen)." . . 267

5. Appendix (1999/2011)
"Legenden und Legendare: Bilanz der letzten 30 Jahre am Beispiel der Alexiuslegende A (mit Edition des Münchner Fragments aus Regensburg sowie Faksimiles, einem Stemma der AlexiusA Hss. und zwei Fresken aus Regensburg und Esslingen)." . . 317

List of Contributors . . 389

Series
(Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik ; Nr. 765)

Lateinische Pergamenthandschriften österreichischer Provenienz in der Polnischen Nationalbibliothek

Obrazy
Autor
Herrard Spilling
Place of publication
Wien
Publication date
2014
Table of Contents

Dank . . 5
Zur Geschichte der Bibliothek des griechisch-katholischen Domkapitels von St. Johannes Baptista in Przemyśl . . 7
Herkunft und Verzeichnung der in die Bibliothek von St. Johannes Baptista in Przemyśl gelangten Handschriften . . 19
Merkmale Reiner Provenienz in den Przemyśler Handschriften . . 46
Stilelemente Reiner Handschriften des 12. Jahrhundert . . 55
Reiner Handschriften aus Przemysl . . 58
  Handschriften des späten 12. Jahrhunderts . . 58
  Handschriften des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts . . 70
Die Przemyśler Pergamenthandschriften ohne Provenienzvermerk . . 74
  Ms. 8009 III . . 74
  Die Makulatur in Ms. 8009 III . . 86
    Zur Textüberlieferung der Ars Laureshamensis . . 86
    Paläographische Einordnung der Fragmente der Ars Laureshamensis . . 101
  Ms. 8017 II . . 145
  Die Zusätze am Ende von Ms. 8017 II . . 180
  Die Makulatur in Ms. 8017 II . . 224
    Das Psalterfragment . . 224
    Das Fragment der Homilien Gregors des Großen . . 225
Transkription der Fragmente der Ars Laureshamensis in Ms. 8009 III . . 271
Handschriftenkatalog . . 317
Literatur- und Abkürzungsverzeichnis . . 377
Verzeichnis der Abbildungen auf der CD-ROM . . 387
Verzeichnis der zitierten Handschriften . . 391
Schlagwortverzeichis . . 399
Initienverzeichnis . . 407

Series
(Sitzungsberichte. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse ; Bd. 846)