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Prestige, Authority and Power in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts (York Manuscripts Conference)
Felicity Riddy
Hardcover. York Medieval Press 2000-12.
ISBN 9780952973461
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Publisher description
Prestige, authority and power: what is the significance of these three
terms for the study of late-medieval manuscripts and texts? This collection of
essays, by leading scholars from Britain and North America, answers this
question in various ways: by discussing manuscripts as prestigious de luxe
objects; by showing how the layout of texts was used to confer different kinds
of authority; and by locating manuscripts and texts more dynamically in what
Foucault calls 'power's net-like organisation'. All of the essays in the volume
embed the manuscripts they discuss in particular sets of personal
relationships, conducted in specific social environments - in the schoolroom or
the monastery, at court, in the gentry household and the city, or mediating
between these. The essays address, among others, issues of gender, patronage,
status, self-authorization, and gentry and urban sociability, in studies
ranging from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Professor FELICITY RIDDY teaches in the Centre for Medieval Studies and the
Department of English at the University of York. Contributors: SUZANNE REYNOLDS, KANTIK GHOSH, KATE HARRIS, KATHLEEN L.
SCOTT, JOHN THOMPSON, CAROL M. MEALE, ANNE M. DUTTON, JAMES P. CARLEY, DAVID R.
CARLSON A range of manuscripts and texts from various social contexts studied for
what they reveal of that social background.
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