{"product_id":"remember-the-hand-manuscription-in-early-medieval-iberia-hardback-9780823298914","title":"Remember the Hand; Manuscription in Early Medieval Iberia (Hardback) 9780823298914","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRemember the Hand\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eManuscription in Early Medieval Iberia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCatherine Brown (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823298914\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 April 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 44 color and 22 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm, 0.854 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER, KATHERINE SINGER KOVACS PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Remember the Hand\u003c\/i\u003e studies a body of articulate manuscript books from the Christian monasteries of northern Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have in common an urgent sense of scribal presence—scribes name themselves, describe themselves, even paint their own portraits. While marginal notes, even biographical ones, are a common feature of medieval manuscripts, rarely do scribes make themselves so fully known. These writers address the reader directly, asking for prayers of intercession and sharing of themselves. They ask the reader to join them in not only acknowledging the labor of writing but also in theorizing it through analogy to agricultural work or textile production, tending a garden of knowledge, weaving a text out of words.\u003cbr\u003e By mining this corpus of articulate codices (known to a school of Iberian codicologists, but virtually unstudied outside that community), Catherine Brown recovers these scribes' understanding of reading as a powerful, intimate encounter between many parties—authors and their text, scribes and their pen, patrons and their art-object, readers and the words and images before their eyes—all mediated by the material object known as the book. By rendering that mediation conspicuous and reminding us of the labor that necessarily precedes that mediation, the scribes reach out to us across time with a simple but profound directive: Remember the hand.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRemember the Hand\u003c\/i\u003e is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Abbreviations \u003c\/i\u003e  ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/i\u003e   xi\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Plates\u003c\/i\u003e   xv\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePreface \u003c\/i\u003e  xvii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: The Articulate Codex, Manuscription, and Empathic Codicology   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eFlorentius's Body   11\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eMonks at Work: \u003ci\u003eGrammatica \u003c\/i\u003eand Contemplative Manuscription   33\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Garden of Colophons   64\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eManu \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003emea\u003c\/i\u003e: Charters, Presence, and the Authority of Inscription   92\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 \u003c\/b\u003eMakers and the Inscribed Environment   106\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6 \u003c\/b\u003eRemember Maius: The Library and the Tomb   128\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Strange Time of Handwriting   160\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Weavers of Albelda   185\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e: The Handy Manuscript   207\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  217\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  221\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eManuscripts Cited\u003c\/i\u003e   291\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  293\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  321\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePlates follow page 168\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739996549400,"sku":"9780823298914","price":46.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/remember-the-hand-manuscription-in-early-medieval-iberia-hardback-9780823298914","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}