{"product_id":"collaborative-meaning-in-medieval-scribal-elizabeth-johnson-bryan-9780472109494","title":"Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture: The Otho La3amon","description":"Before the technology of print, every book was unique. Two manuscripts of the \"same\" text could package and transmit that text very differently, depending on the choices made by scribes, compilers, translators, annotators, and decorators. Is it appropriate, Elizabeth Bryan asks, for us to read these books as products of a single author's consciousness? And if not, how \u003ci\u003edo\u003c\/i\u003e we read them?\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCollaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, Bryan compares examples from the British Library Cotton Otho C.xiii manuscript of La3amon's \u003ci\u003eBrut\u003c\/i\u003e, the early thirteenth-century verse history that translated King Arthur into English for the first time. She discovers cultural attitudes that valued communal aspects of manuscript texts--for example, a view of the physical book as connecting all who read or even held it to each other.\u003cbr\u003eThe study is divided into two parts. Part one presents Early Middle English concepts of \"enjoining\" texts and explores the theoretical and methodological challenges they pose to present-day readers of scribally-produced texts. Part two conducts a detailed study of the multiple interpretations built into the manuscript text. Illustrations of manuscript pages accompany analysis, and the reader is invited to engage in interpreting the \u003ci\u003emanuscript\u003c\/i\u003e text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to students and specialists in medieval chronicle histories, Middle English, Arthurian literature, and literary and textual theory.\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth J. Bryan is Associate Professor of English, Brown University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Johnson Bryan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472109499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472109494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.34h x 6.37w x 1.04d","brand":"Elizabeth Johnson Bryan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086703538431,"sku":"9780472109494","price":94.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8659ef7c-3ec5-4950-9feb-f12b28d91e0e.jpg?v=1769096090","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/collaborative-meaning-in-medieval-scribal-elizabeth-johnson-bryan-9780472109494","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}