Books of Knowledge in Late Medieval Europe: Circulation and Reception of Popular Texts

0549234 - FLÚ 2022 RIV BE eng M - Monography Chapter
Cermanová, Pavlína - Žůrek, Václav
Books of Knowledge – Late Medieval Central Europe and Beyond.
Books of Knowledge in Late Medieval Europe: Circulation and Reception of Popular Texts. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021 - (Cermanová, P.; Žůrek, V.), s. 1-9. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 52. ISBN 978-2-503-59463-7
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA17-19808S
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Medieval manuscripts * medieval culture * history of reading * medieval bestseller
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.125784

This essay introduces a volume on books of knowledge. The volume provides a series of studies concerning unique medieval texts that can be defined as ‘books of knowledge’, such as medieval chronicles, bestiaries, or catechetic handbooks. Books of this kind could be disseminated in dozens or even hundreds of copies, and were often available (by translation or adaptation) in various languages, including the vernacular. In exploring these widely-disseminated and highly popular texts that offered a precise segment of knowledge that could be accessed by readers outside the intellectual and social elite, this volume intends to introduce books of knowledge as a new category within the study of medieval literacy.
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