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Reading and shaping medieval cartularies : multi-scribe manuscripts and their patterns of growth : a study of the earliest cartularies of Glasgow Cathedral and Lindores Abbey /
The physical nature of the medieval cartulary examined alongside its textual contents.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK :
The Boydell Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Studies in Celtic history ;
41. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Conventions
- Introduction
- 1. Cartulary Studies
- An overview of the field
- What are cartularies?
- Why were cartularies created?
- What was the function of the cartulary?
- Analysis of cartulary manuscripts and their scribes
- Approaches in manuscript studies
- Conclusion
- 2. Analysing a Multi-Scribe Cartulary
- Introduction to Glasgow Cathedral and its archive
- The binding of the Glasgow RV
- The collation of the Glasgow RV
- Rethinking the identification of scribes and scribal activity
- Dating scribal activity in multi-scribe cartularies
- Applying relative dating to multi-scribe cartularies
- Summary of the methodology
- Conclusion
- 3. The Creation and Growth of the Glasgow RV
- The creation and growth of the Glasgow RV by series
- Summary of the creation and growth of the Glasgow RV
- The institutional setting of the Glasgow RV
- The function of the Glasgow RV
- Conclusion
- 4. The Creation and Growth of Lindores Caprington
- Lindores Abbey and its archive
- The binding of Lindores Caprington
- The structure of Lindores Caprington: collation and series
- The scribal activity in Lindores Caprington
- The creation and growth of Lindores Caprington by series
- Summary of the creation and growth of Lindores Caprington
- The institutional setting of Lindores Caprington
- The function of Lindores Caprington
- Conclusion
- 5. Understanding the Patterns of Growth in Multi-Scribe Cartularies
- The initial creation of the cartulary manuscripts
- The growth of the cartulary manuscripts
- 'Repeats' in the cartularies
- Why did the cartularies grow?
- The institutional setting of the cartularies
- Conclusion
- 6. Conclusion
- The new methodology for multi-scribe cartulary manuscripts
- Cartulary scholarship and the 'genre' of cartularies
- Directions for the future
- Reading medieval cartularies
- Appendix: Contents of the two cartularies by 'series'
- Editorial principles
- The contents of the Glasgow RV by series
- The contents of Lindores Caprington by series
- Bibliography
- Index