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Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries. Knowledge Repositories, Guardians of Tradition and Catalysts of Change
, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 341 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:35 col., 3 tables b/w., 5 maps b/w, Language(s):English, Italian, French. ISBN 9782503605975.
Summary Libraries are an important factor in preserving and transmitting knowledge, thus contributing to historical continuity. The very concept of simultaneous availability of different texts transmitting possibly contradictory ideas, however, implies a great potential for engaging readers in new ways of thinking, thus promoting change. In addition to transmitting texts, historical libraries would often also be perceived as objects of material and spiritual value enhancing the prestige of their owner, e.g. contributing to the image-building of the political entities ruled by emperors, kings and princes. While the history of individual libraries of the Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance have been treated in various detail, no large-scale study of the impact of Late Medieval and Early Modern libraries as knowledge repositories and guardians of tradition, on the one hand, and catalysts of change, on the other, seems to exist. This volume, which is inspired by the outcome of the final colloquium of the Lamemoli project held in Siena in March 2022, explores from the book historical point of view a series of both well-known and severely underexplored Late Medieval and Early Modern book collections in existence between c. 1250 and c. 1650, a period of intense mediatic, cultural, religious and political change in Western Europe. Covering an extensive geographical area from France and Italy to Central and Northern Europe, the collections are examined for both their material characteristics and contents, and their historical formation, in order to assess their roles in preserving and transmitting information as well as generating new ideas. TABLE OF CONTENTS O. Merisalo (University of Jyv skyl /Lamemoli), Introduction I. Royal libraries M.H. Tesni re (Biblioth que nationale de France, Paris), La dispersion de la Librairie de Charles V et Charles VI au XVe si cle (apr s 1424). Les manuscrits S. Niiranen (University of Jyv skyl /Lamemoli), Cultural Perspectives on Printed Works in Sigismund II Augustus' Library II. Institutional libraries J. Kujawi?ski (University of Pozna?/Lamemoli), Established Libraries as Destination for Newly Published Works in Manuscript Culture. Medieval Authors' Perspectives S. Allegria (Centro Frate Elia, Cortona), Studio e libri nella biblioteca francescana di Santa Croce in Firenze tra XIII e XIV secolo. Nuovi apporti documentari I. Ventura (Universit di Bologna), Dalla Collectio Amploniana alla Collectio Collegii Portae Caeli. Caratteri e problemi di una collezione in trasformazione A. den Haan (University of Utrecht), Epulae litterarum. The Universal Latin library of Pope Nicholas V (r. 1447-1455) N. Golob (University of Ljubljana), Bishop Sigismund of Lamberg and his Books F. Niutta (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma), Alla ricerca della biblioteca manoscritta del Collegio Romano dei Gesuiti B. Wallura (Freie Universit t Berlin/Lamemoli), Omnia ex archivis et fide dignis monumentis collecta. Heinrich Eckstorm's Chronicon Walkenredense (1617) and the Archiving of Monastic Heritage in Brundwick-L neburg B. Roling (Freie Universit t Berlin/Lamemoli), Archives Against Myths. The Hanover Historian Johann Heinrich Jung (1715-1799) and the Counts of Bentheim. III. Private libraries S. Fortuna (Universit politecnica delle Marche, Ancona), Biblioteche di medicina. Il caso dei traduttori dei medici greci (secoli XII-XIV) D. Nebbiai (IRHT-CNRS, Paris), Retorica, ortodossia, bibliofilia. L'influenza culturale della biblioteca pontificia nelle raccolte di due ecclesiastici del Nord della Francia C. Bianca (Universit di Firenze), Le biblioteche fiorentine pubbliche e private da Salutati a Poliziano O. Merisalo (University of Jyv skyl /Lamemoli), Pico's Latin manuscripts. Palaeographical and Codicological Observations M. Pade (University of Aarhus/Lamemoli), Pico's Multilingual Pentateuch T. Puputti (University of Jyv skyl ), The Significance of Paul II and his Library in the Dissemination of Flavio Biondo's (1392-1463) Decades P.J. Osmond (Iowa State University), Reconstructing Pomponio Leto's Library. A Proposal L. Amato (University of Tokyo/Lamemoli), Bartolomeo del Bene, l'Accademia degli Alterati, e il Libro dell'Anno (Citt del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. Lat. 8857) P. Carmassi (Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenb ttel), La biblioteca di Marquard Gude come deposito di saperi greci e latini. Strategie di uso e rappresentazione: l'esempio dei Geoponica Index rerum Index nominum Index codicum
Transmission of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, 239 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:19 col., Languages: English, French, Italian. ISBN 9782503581569.
Summary The nineteenth century saw the rapid development of textual criticism for establishing the "best" and "most authentic" forms of both Ancient and Mediaeval texts thanks to the method perfected by Karl Lachmann, who based himself on the insights gained during the eighteenth century. Lachmann's method has been further refined by later philologists, with, most interestingly, the use of computers in establishing the mutual relations of manuscript witnesses since the last decades of the twentieth century. However, the interest in what form the texts, both Ancient and Mediaeval, were actually circulating in the Late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, has been slow to emerge as an area of scholarly interest. In other words: what did the readers actually get in front of their eyes, and acted upon as, say, doctors, historians, theologians between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries? This volume explores the Late Medieval and Renaissance transmission of texts of different genres, languages and periods from the book historical point of view, taking into consideration not only the textual but also the material aspect of the traditions. The authors include eminent specialists as well as mid- and early career scholars. TABLE OF CONTENTS Outi Merisalo, Introduction I. Roman law Mario Varvaro, Note sulla definizione della possessio nel Festo Farnesiano (Napoli, BNN, IV. A. 3) II. Medicine Stefania Fortuna, La tradizione latina di Galeno e il De farmaciis Monica H. Green, Recovering 'Ancient' Gynaecology. The Humanist Rediscovery of the Eleventh-Century Gynaecological Corpus Iolanda Ventura, Una trasmissione complessa da rivedere. Appunti sul corpus di scritti di Giovanni di Saint-Amand Vivian Nutton, The Transmission of Medical Knowledge in Script and Print III. Religious literature Elena Parina, Maria Volkonskaya, Middle Welsh texts on the Virtues of the Mass in their European context IV. Historiography Samu Niskanen, Copyists and redactors. Towards a prolegomenon to the editio princeps of Peregrinatio Antiochie per Vrbanum papam facta Jakub Kujawi?ski, Saved in Translation. Vernacular translations from Paris, BNF, fr. 688, as witnesses of lost texts, manuscripts and readings Concetta Bianca, Revisione d'autore o intervento ideologico? A proposito del De expeditione in Turcos di Biondo Flavio Miika Kuha, The Reception of Humanist Historiography in Venice. Simultaneous Copying of the De gestis, moribus et nobilitate civitatis Venetiarum by Lorenzo de' Monaci at the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century Susanna Niiranen, From Prison to Print. Johannes Messenius' Scondia illustrata as a co-product of early modern prison writing V. Military literature Jo lle Ducos, De la glose la parenth se. Traduire V g ce en fran ais au XVIe si cle VI. Poetry Lorenzo Amato, Le serie di madrigali alla Strozzi. Una prima ricognizione e analisi socio-culturale di un genere poetico granducale Paul Gwynne, Problems Mainly Propertian. Francesco Sperulo and Renaissance Commentary Abbreviations of Library Names Index codicum Index rerum Index nominum Illustrations
Frontiers in the Middle Ages, Proceedings of the Third European Congress of the Medieval Studies (Jyvaskyla, 10-14 June 2003)
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2006 Hardcover. approx. XII 761 p., 20 b/w ill., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: English, French, German, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503524207.
More than obstacles, medieval frontiers - whether geographical, political, military, intellectual or artistic - seem to have been bridges and points of contact. This volume brings together forty-four contributions by specialists of history, history of ideas, medieval philosophy, philology, linguistics, literature as well as manuscript and archival studies. The first uses of the term frontiere in thirteenth-fourteenth-century French were military, referring to the first line of troops in a battle. In architecture it meant the front of a building, and at the end of the fourteenth century it was first used as a geographical term, in Spain specifically about the divide between the Christians and the Muslims. More than obstacles, medieval frontiers - whether geographical, political, military, intellectual or artistic - seem to have been bridges and points of contact. Frontiers was the theme of the Third European Congress of Medieval Studies organised by the FIDEM in Jyvaskyla, Finland, in 2003. True to the nature of the FIDEM, it was highly interdisciplinary, bringing together scholars from all over the world, addressing problems ranging from Byzantine administration to Icelandic vernacular scribal culture, during a week of extraordinary intellectual excitement. This volume brings together forty-four contributions by specialists of history, history of ideas, medieval philosophy, philology, linguistics, literature as well as manuscript and archival studies.
Frontiers in the Middle Ages , Proceedings of the Third European Congress of the Medieval Studies (Jyvaskyla, 10-14 June 2003)
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2006 softcover, . XII+761 p., 20 b/w ill., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: English, French, German. ISBN 9782503524207.
More than obstacles, medieval frontiers - whether geographical, political, military, intellectual or artistic - seem to have been bridges and points of contact. This volume brings together forty-four contributions by specialists of history, history of ideas, medieval philosophy, philology, linguistics, literature as well as manuscript and archival studies. The first uses of the term frontiere in thirteenth-fourteenth-century French were military, referring to the first line of troops in a battle. In architecture it meant the front of a building, and at the end of the fourteenth century it was first used as a geographical term, in Spain specifically about the divide between the Christians and the Muslims. More than obstacles, medieval frontiers - whether geographical, political, military, intellectual or artistic - seem to have been bridges and points of contact. Frontiers was the theme of the Third European Congress of Medieval Studies organised by the FIDEM in Jyvaskyla, Finland, in 2003. True to the nature of the FIDEM, it was highly interdisciplinary, bringing together scholars from all over the world, addressing problems ranging from Byzantine administration to Icelandic vernacular scribal culture, during a week of extraordinary intellectual excitement. This volume brings together forty-four contributions by specialists of history, history of ideas, medieval philosophy, philology, linguistics, literature as well as manuscript and archival studies.
