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Amsterdam University Press Franciscan Books and their Readers: Friars and Manuscripts in Late Medieval Italy

Name: Franciscan Books and their Readers: Friars and Manuscripts in Late Medieval Italy
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Franciscan Books and their Readers explores the manuscripts written, read and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and readership. The ideal is studied through the regulations that determined what manuscripts should aim for. Space refers to the development and role of Franciscan libraries. The form is revealed by the assessment of the physical configuration of a set of representative manuscripts read, written and manufactured by the friars. Finally, the study of the readership shows how Franciscans were skilled readers who employed certain forms of the manuscript as a portable, personal library and as a tool for learning and pastoral care. By comparing the book collections of Padua’s reformed and unreformed medieval Franciscan libraries for the first time, this study reveals new features of the ground-breaking cultural agency of medieval friars.

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Brand: Amsterdam University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 9463729518
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Italy
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 December 2025
Listed Since: 15 December 2021

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