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Paper in Medieval England

Paper in Medieval England

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Book 112

Literary CriticismTechnology & Engineering

ISBN10: 1108840574
ISBN13: 9781108840576
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 1 2020
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Orietta Da Rold provides a detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. Looking beyond book production, Da Rold maps out the uses of paper and explains the success of this technology in medieval culture, considering how people interacted with it and how it affected their lives. Offering a nuanced understanding of how affordance influenced societal choices, Paper in Medieval England draws on a multilingual array of sources to investigate how paper circulated, was written upon, and was deployed by people across medieval society, from kings to merchants, to bishops, to clerks and to poets, contributing to an understanding of how medieval paper changed communication and shaped modernity.

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