SCRIBES AND SCHOLARS AT SALISBURY CATHEDRAL C. 1075 - C. 1125 Near Fine with no dust jacket

Oxford University Press, 2002

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Year of publication

2002

ISBN

019820308X

Author

Webber, Teresa

Publishers

Oxford University Press

Keyword

Medieval World History Books Books Antiques & Collectibles Home, & Garden History of Books Books & Reading

Cover description

Near Fine with no dust jacket

Binding description

Hardcover ISBN 019820308X

Description

In slick dark blue paper covered boards, spine and cover printing. Light edgewear to top corner of boards. ; 2002 Reprint of 1992 Edition ; Oxford Historical Monographs; 0.8 x 9.52 x 6.4 Inches; 248 pages; This is a study of the books of Salisbury Cathedral and their scribes and readers in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. These manuscripts form the largest collection of manuscripts to have survived from any English center in the period following the Norman Conquest, and they bear witness to the energetic scribal and scholarly activities of a community of intelligent and able men. Webber traces the interests and activities of the canons of Salisbury Cathedral from the evidence of their books. She reveals to us a lively Anglo-Norman center of scholarship and religious devotion. Scholarly and original, this study combines detailed palaeographic research with an intelligent understanding of medieval cultural and intellectual life.