The Church and the Book
Published on 10. February 2004
Book
Hardback
406 pages
978-0-9529733-8-6 (ISBN)
Description
Christianity encapsulates its claims to authority in a book, the bible. The church's tradition is dependent on literacy: throughout its history the Christian message has been conveyed through books and other forms of writing, to provide continuity through periods of persecution, to challenge rival views, to aid processes of conversion, and asvital witnesses to the history of the Church as both a spiritual and social phenomenon. This collection of twenty-six articles by an international group of scholars offers insights into many aspects of the relationship between the church and the book, from the first appearance of Christian writings through to the twentieth century, not just inBritain and Europe, but in America, China, and India. Contributors: MARGARET ASTON, JAMES BETTLEY, RUTH CHAVASSE, MICHAEL CLANCHY, BRIAN CUMMINGS, JAMES J. DAVIS, CHRISTOPH EGGER, RICHARD EMMS, S.G. HALL, SARAH HAMILTON, ELIZABETH M. INGRAM, W. M. JACOB, G. H. JENKINS, L. LAAMANN, OLIVER M. T. LOGAN, JUDITH D. MALTBY, SCOTT H. MANDELBROTE, SUSAN MARTIN, JEREMY MORRIS, R. McKITTERICK, THOMAS O'LOUGHLIN, M. A. OVERELL, GRAHAM SHAW, ERIK SIDENVALL, NORMAN P. TANNER, SUSAN WABUDA, ALEXANDRA M. WALSHAM
Professor R.N. SWANSON teaches in the Department of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham.
Professor R.N. SWANSON teaches in the Department of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Warrington
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth over boards
Illustrations
25 s/w Abbildungen
25 b/w.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9529733-8-6 (9780952973386)
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SCOTT MANDELBROTE is Fellow, Director of Studies in History, and Perne and Ward Librarian at Peterhouse, Cambridge. The Peterhouse partbooks fall under his care and he was responsible for the programme of conservation and research on the manuscripts that led to the publication of this volume. He has also supervised the complete recataloguing of Peterhouse's collections of rare books and manuscripts and the development of online resources in collaboration with the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music and the Cambridge Digital Library. He is the editorial director of the Newton Project and has written or edited a dozen books on various aspects of early modern intellectual history.
Content
In the Beginning was the Codex: the Early Church and its Revolutionary Books - Stuart George Hall
The Book of the Councils: Nicaea I to Vatican II - Norman P Tanner
Early Medieval Introductions to the Holy Book: Adjuncts or Hermeneutic? - Thomas O'Loughlin
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, and the 'First Books of the Whole English Church' - Richard Emms
The Carolingian Church and the Book - Rosamond McKitterick
The Rituale: the Evolution of a New Liturgical Book - Sarah Hamilton
The Scholar's Suitcase: Books and the Transfer of Knowledge in Twelfth-Century Europe - Christoph Egger
Biblical Authority in the Writing of Pope Innocent IV (1243-54) - Susan Martin
Images of Ladies with Prayer Books: What do They Signify? - Michael Clanchy
Jewels for Gentlewomen: Religious Books as Artefacts in Late Medieval and Early Modern England - Alexandra M Walsham
Triple Deckers and Eagle Lecterns: Church Furniture for the Book in Late Medieval and Early Modern England - Susan Wabuda
Piety, Penance, and Popular Reading in Devotion to the Virgin Mary and her Miracles: Italian Incunabula and Early Printed Collections - Ruth Chavasse
Lap Books and Lectern Books: The Revelatory Book in the Reformation - Margaret Aston
The Christian Brethren and the Dissemination of Heretical Books - James J Davis
Bernardino Ochino's Books and English Religious Opinion: 1547-80 - M A Overell
Dressed in Borrowed Robes: the Making and Marketing of the Louvain Bible (1578) - Elizabeth M Ingram
Luther and the Book: the Iconography of the Ninety-Five Theses - Brian Cummings
'The Good Old Way': Prayer Book Protestantism in 1640s and 1650s - Judith D Maltby
Provision of Books for Poor Clergy Parochial Libraries in the British Isles and the North American Colonies, 1680-1720 - W. M. Jacob
Writing the History of the English Bible in the Early Eighteenth Century - Scott H Mandelbrote
Memories of Faith: the 'Christian Sutras' of Eighteenth-Century China - L Laamann
'I will tell you a word or two about Cardiganshire': Welsh Clerics and Literature in the Eighteenth Century - G H Jenkins
Some Architectural Aspects of the Role of Manuals in Changes to Anglican Liturgical Practice in the Nineteenth Century - James Bettley
Communications between Cultures: Difficulties in the Design and Distribution of Christian Literature in Nineteenth-Century India - Graham Shaw
Dealing with Development: the Protestant Reviews of John Henry Newman's An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, 1845-71845-7 - Erik Sidenvall
The Text as Sacrament: Victorian Broad Church Philology - Jeremy N Morris
A Journal. La Civilta Cattolica from Pius IX to Pius XII (1850-1958) - Oliver M T Logan
The Book of the Councils: Nicaea I to Vatican II - Norman P Tanner
Early Medieval Introductions to the Holy Book: Adjuncts or Hermeneutic? - Thomas O'Loughlin
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, and the 'First Books of the Whole English Church' - Richard Emms
The Carolingian Church and the Book - Rosamond McKitterick
The Rituale: the Evolution of a New Liturgical Book - Sarah Hamilton
The Scholar's Suitcase: Books and the Transfer of Knowledge in Twelfth-Century Europe - Christoph Egger
Biblical Authority in the Writing of Pope Innocent IV (1243-54) - Susan Martin
Images of Ladies with Prayer Books: What do They Signify? - Michael Clanchy
Jewels for Gentlewomen: Religious Books as Artefacts in Late Medieval and Early Modern England - Alexandra M Walsham
Triple Deckers and Eagle Lecterns: Church Furniture for the Book in Late Medieval and Early Modern England - Susan Wabuda
Piety, Penance, and Popular Reading in Devotion to the Virgin Mary and her Miracles: Italian Incunabula and Early Printed Collections - Ruth Chavasse
Lap Books and Lectern Books: The Revelatory Book in the Reformation - Margaret Aston
The Christian Brethren and the Dissemination of Heretical Books - James J Davis
Bernardino Ochino's Books and English Religious Opinion: 1547-80 - M A Overell
Dressed in Borrowed Robes: the Making and Marketing of the Louvain Bible (1578) - Elizabeth M Ingram
Luther and the Book: the Iconography of the Ninety-Five Theses - Brian Cummings
'The Good Old Way': Prayer Book Protestantism in 1640s and 1650s - Judith D Maltby
Provision of Books for Poor Clergy Parochial Libraries in the British Isles and the North American Colonies, 1680-1720 - W. M. Jacob
Writing the History of the English Bible in the Early Eighteenth Century - Scott H Mandelbrote
Memories of Faith: the 'Christian Sutras' of Eighteenth-Century China - L Laamann
'I will tell you a word or two about Cardiganshire': Welsh Clerics and Literature in the Eighteenth Century - G H Jenkins
Some Architectural Aspects of the Role of Manuals in Changes to Anglican Liturgical Practice in the Nineteenth Century - James Bettley
Communications between Cultures: Difficulties in the Design and Distribution of Christian Literature in Nineteenth-Century India - Graham Shaw
Dealing with Development: the Protestant Reviews of John Henry Newman's An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, 1845-71845-7 - Erik Sidenvall
The Text as Sacrament: Victorian Broad Church Philology - Jeremy N Morris
A Journal. La Civilta Cattolica from Pius IX to Pius XII (1850-1958) - Oliver M T Logan