EAN: 9781529400939

HIDDEN HANDS - MARY WELLESLEY GEBUNDEN

Hidden Hands charts the history of manuscripts in England  starting with the first  found in
the grave of St .Cuthbert  which cannot have been written later than the end of the seventh
century  through to the works of the Beowulf poet  Margery Kempe  Julian of Norwich  Malory 
Wyclif  the Gawain poet  William Langland  Chaucer  the Ancrene Wisse  The Paston Letters and
others right up to the invention of printing  forming a line of transmission which constitute a
history of England and its literary culture. Preoccupied with England's part of a common
European culture. Scribes  clerics  patrons and collectors are drawn with a vivid touch  while
the significance of individual manuscripts is judiciously illuminated. It is insistent on the
early role of women as authors and active  visible participants. It describes how manuscripts
were prepared and discusses the many contributors to the creation of these venerable  beautiful
and delicate objects  most of which perished through fire  water or wilful destruction.

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