Touching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts: Volume 1: Officials and Their Books

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dc.contributor.authorRudy, Kathryn M.
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-16T13:49:46Z
dc.date.available2024-05-16T13:49:46Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-18
dc.date.updated2024-05-16T13:49:45Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.description.abstractThe Medieval book, both religious and secular, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of its use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy’s research in Touching Parchment. Rudy presents numerous and fascinating case studies that relate to the evidence of use and damage through touching and or kissing. She also puts each study within a category of different ways of handling books, mainly liturgical, legal or choral practice, and in turn connects each practice to the horizontal or vertical behavioural patterns of users within a public or private environment. With her keen eye for observation in being able to identify various characteristics of inadvertent and targeted wear, the author adds a new dimension to the Medieval book. She gives the reader the opportunity to reflect on the social, anthropological and historical value of the use of the book by sharpening our senses to the way users handled books in different situations. Rudy has amassed an incredible amount of material for this research and the way in which she presents each manuscript conveys an approach that scholars on Medieval history and book materiality should keep in mind when carrying out their own research. What perhaps is most striking in her articulate text, is how she expresses that the touching of books was not without emotion, and the accumulated effects of these emotions are worthy of preservation, study and further reflection.
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0337
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649590
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649606
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649613
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649651
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649644
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649620
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649637
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dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/57
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherOpen Book Publishers
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectHBLC1
dc.subjectJFCD
dc.subjectJHBT
dc.subjectWCS
dc.subjectANT052000
dc.subjectHIS037010
dc.subjectSOC002010
dc.subjectZ110.H36
dc.subjectHistory of the Book
dc.subjecthandling
dc.subjectmedieval
dc.subjectMedieval book
dc.subjectreligious
dc.subjectrituals
dc.subjectsecular
dc.subjecttouching
dc.titleTouching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts: Volume 1: Officials and Their Books
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