Making History with Manuscripts in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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Author: Johannes Junge Ruhland (ed.)This volume explores the role of manuscripts in conveying history to medieval and early modern readers. Manuscript makers "made" history through layout, rewriting, illumination, compilation, script choice, and annotation, giving history-writing its material dimension. Adopting a broad view of "history", it argues that manuscripts’ materiality shaped historical narratives and defined history conceptually, making their creators play an instrumental role in history-writing alongside authors.The ten chapters analyse Western European sources (9th to 16th c.), linking case studies like 13th-c. Corbie and 15th-c. Zurich to broader history-writing strategies. The book therefore situates history-writing in its material form and invites us to consider premodern historiography in its medium.ISBN 9783111556888. De Gruyter. hb. 303 pages. 17 colour, 62 b/w ills. 24 x 17 cm.available Show more