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Franciscan Books and Their Readers: Friars and Manuscripts in Late Medieval Italy

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 Franciscan Books and Their Readers: Friars and Manuscripts in Late Medieval Italy
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The book explores the manuscripts written, read, and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in Northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and readership. The ideal is studied through the regulations that determined what manuscripts should aim for. Space refers to the development and role of Franciscan libraries. The form is revealed by the assessment of the physical configuration of a set of representative manuscripts read, written, and manufactured by the friars. Finally, the study of the readership shows how Franciscans were skilled readers who employed certain forms of the manuscript as a portable, personal library, and as a tool for learning and pastoral care. By comparing the book collections of Padua's reformed and unreformed medieval Franciscan libraries for the first time, this study reveals new features of the ground-breaking cultural agency of medieval friars.

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FRANCISCAN BKS & THEIR READERS

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Author: Hern
Publication Date: 2022-05-28
Language: English
Publisher: AMSTERDAM UNIV PR
Number of Units in Package: 1

ISBN: 9789463729512