{"product_id":"text-and-the-world-piotr-gorecki-9780199688791","title":"Text and the World: The Henrykaow Book, Its Authors, and Their Region, 1160-1310","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Text and the World\u003c\/em\u003e is a study of an exceptionally interesting primary source - the \u003cem\u003eHenrykow Book\u003c\/em\u003e - and of the local and regional world which that source reflected and helped shape. The source is a history of the Cistercian monastery in Henrykow, about forty kilometers to the south of Wroclaw, in the duchy of Silesia, produced in the monastery in two sections-one completed soon after 1268, the other soon after 1310-and redacted into a single codex in the second or third decade of the fourteenth century. The earlier part of the \u003cem\u003eBook\u003c\/em\u003e is the work of Peter, the third abbot of the monastery, while the continuation was written by an anonymous monk at the same community, possibly a later abbot by the same name. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eHenrykow Book\u003c\/em\u003e offers an exceptionally rich introduction to a number of subjects currently of major interest to medieval historians. It is interesting as a literary work, as an instance of forensic rhetoric, and as a type of legal argument; as an instance of biography and (implicit) autobiography. It draws on and is an example of the relationship between memory and writing, and acts as a record of lordship, power, economy, the law, social groups, communities, and institutions, in the local and regional world of the time. \u003cem\u003eThe Text and the World\u003c\/em\u003e explores each of these major subjects, contextualized with the \u003cem\u003eHenrykow Book\u003c\/em\u003e's contemporary diplomatic evidence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Piotr Gorecki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199688796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199688791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.00d","brand":"Piotr Gorecki","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424988217599,"sku":"9780199688791","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_63e56267-8947-4c08-aaaa-22e6fc191b97.jpg?v=1761536229","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/text-and-the-world-piotr-gorecki-9780199688791","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}