LEADER 04181nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910455021203321 005 20210917023616.0 010 $a1-282-75181-6 010 $a9786612751813 010 $a1-4008-2107-X 010 $a1-4008-1133-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821075 035 $a(CKB)111056486501428 035 $a(EBL)581577 035 $a(OCoLC)700688500 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000150003 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11149451 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000150003 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10238903 035 $a(PQKB)11609236 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581577 035 $a(OCoLC)51494010 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35970 035 $a(DE-B1597)446064 035 $a(OCoLC)979576571 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821075 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581577 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031959 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275181 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486501428 100 $a19930510d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe ethics of reading in manuscript culture$b[electronic resource] $eglossing the Libro de buen amor /$fJohn Dagenais 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1994 215 $a1 online resource (303 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-03246-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-262) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tABBREVIATIONS --$tPREFACE --$tINTRODUCTION: The Larger Gloss --$tPART I. --$tCHAPTER 1. "A Glorious Thyng, Certeyn" --$tCHAPTER 2. Adaptation and Application --$tCHAPTER 3. The Ethics of Reading the Book of the Archpriest of Hita --$tPART II. --$tINTRODUCTION --$tCHAPTER 4. S/Ç: The Manuscripts of the Libro and Their Scribes --$tCHAPTER 5. At the Margins of the Libro --$tCHAPTER 6. Reading the Book of the Archpriest of Hita --$tCONCLUSION: Tolle Lege --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aReexamining the roles played by author, reader, scribe, and text in medieval literary practice, John Dagenais argues that the entire physical manuscript must be the basis of any discussion of how meaning was made. Medievalists, he maintains, have relied too heavily on critical editions that seek to create a single, definitive text reflecting an author's intentions. In reality, manuscripts bear not only authorial texts but also a variety of elements added by scribes and readers: glosses, marginal notes, pointing hands, illuminations, and fragments of other, seemingly unrelated works. Using the surviving manuscripts of the fourteenth-century Libro de buen amor, a work that has been read both as didactic treatise on spiritual love and as a celebration of sensual pleasures, Dagenais shows how consideration of the physical manuscripts and their cultural context can shed new light on interpretive issues that have puzzled modern readers. Dagenais also addresses the theory and practice of reading in the Middle Ages, showing that for medieval readers the text on the manuscript leaf, including the text of the Libro, was primarily rhetorical and ethical in nature. It spoke to them directly, individually, always in the present moment. Exploring the margins of the manuscripts of the Libro and of other Iberian works, Dagenais reveals how medieval readers continually reshaped their texts, both physically and ethically as they read, and argues that the context of medieval manuscript culture forces us to reconsider such comfortable received notions as "text" and "literature" and the theories we have based upon them. 606 $aTransmission of texts 606 $aManuscripts, Medieval 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTransmission of texts. 615 0$aManuscripts, Medieval. 676 $a861/.1 700 $aDagenais$b John$0220863 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455021203321 996 $aThe ethics of reading in manuscript culture$91979161 997 $aUNINA