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| ID no. of Reference | BETA bibid 5635 |
| Format | libro. referencia. impreso |
| Author | John Dagenais |
| Title | The Ethics of Reading in Manuscript Culture. Glossing the Libro de Buen Amor |
| Place / Publisher | Princeton,NH: Princeton University Press |
| Date / Location | 1994: páginas xxiii, 278 |
| ISBN/ISSN | ISBN: 0691032467 |
| Note | ¿Princeton UP?: “Reexamining the roles played by author, reader, scribe, and text in medieval literary practice, John Dagenais
argues that the entire physical manuscript must by the basis of any discussion of how meaning was made. Medievalists, he maintains,
have relied too heavily on critical editions that seek to create a single, definitive text reflecting an author's intentions.
In reality, manuscripts bear not only authorial texts but also a variety of elements added by scribes and readers: glosses,
marginal notes, pointing hands, illuminations, and fragments of other, seemingly unrelated works. Using the surviving manuscripts
of the fourteenth-century "Libro de buen amor", a work that has been read both as didactic treatise on spiritual love and
as a celebration of sensual pleasures, Dagenais show how consideration of the physical manuscripts and their cultural context
can shed new light on interpretive issues that have puzzled modern readers. Dagenais also addresses the theory and practice
of reading in the Middle Ages, showing that for medieval readers the text on the manuscript leaf, including the text of the
"Libro", was primarily rhetorical and ethical in nature. It spoke to them directly, individually, always in the present moment.
Exploring the margins of the manuscripts of the "Libro" and of other Iberian works, Dagenais reveals how medieval readers
continually reshaped their texts, both physically and ethically as they read, and argues that the context of medieval manuscript
culture forces us to reconsider such comfortable received notions as "text" and "literature" and the theories we have based
upon them.” |
| Held by | Madrid: Nacional (BNE) 9/146033 (BNE Cat.) |
| Source of Data for MSS, Editions, or Copies | manid 1469 MS: Madrid: Nacional (BNE), VITR/6/1. 1330 a quo? - 1400 ca. Juan Ruiz, arcipreste de Hita, Libro de buen amor, escrito 1330 a quo? - 1343 ad quem?. |
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