Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences

book: Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2024

Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences

Edited by: Antonella Brita , Janina Karolewski , Matthieu Husson , Laure Miolo and Hanna Wimmer

Volume 36 in the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111343556

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Throughout history, manuscripts have been made and used for religious, artistic, and scientific performances, and this practice continues in most cultures today. By focusing on the role manuscripts have in different kinds of performances, this volume contributes to the evolving field of investigating written artefacts and their functions.
The collected essays regard manuscripts as points of intersection where textual, material, and performative aspects converge. The contributors analyse manuscripts in their forms and functions as well as their positioning in the performances for which they were made. These aspects unfold across the volume’s three sections, examining how manuscripts are (1) used backstage, for preparing and giving instructions for performances; (2) taken onstage, contributing to the enactment of performances; and (3) performers in their own right, producing an effect on the audience.
The diversified, interdisciplinary, and innovative methodologies of the included papers carry great potential to expand the traditional approaches of manuscript studies and find application outside the contributors’ respective fields.

Author / Editor information

Antonella Brita, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy; Janina Karolewski, Universität Hamburg, Germany; Matthieu Husson, CNRS SYRTE PSL-Observatoire de Paris, France; Laure Miolo, University of Oxford, UK; Hanna Wimmer, Universität Hamburg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Antonella Brita, Janina Karolewski, Matthieu Husson, Laure Miolo and Hanna Wimmer Open Access Download PDF	1
Manuscripts for Performances
Making and Using Manuscripts in Theatre: The Material Dynamics of Two Nineteenth- Century Nathan der Weise Prompt Books Alexander Weinstock and Martin Jörg Schäfer Open Access Download PDF	17
Performative Aspects of Assyrian Celestial Divination and Babylonian Astronomical Diaries Mathieu Ossendrijver Open Access Download PDF	39
Pocket-Sized Liturgy: A Fifteenth-Century Breviary from the Abbey of San Zeno Maggiore Eva Ferro Open Access Download PDF	55
Performing Multiplications Beyond the Text of Some Sanskrit Mathematical Commentaries Agathe Keller Open Access Download PDF	73
A Bibliophile Performing Eclipse Computations: Lewis Caerleon and His Notebook Laure Miolo Open Access Download PDF	117
Manuscripts in Performances
Medieval Music Rolls, Scribes and Performance: The Extant Rolls of Thirteenth- Century English Polyphony Karen Desmond Open Access Download PDF	189
Astronomical Computation as a Performance: Determining Planetary Positions with the Manuscript Erfurt, Angermuseum, 3134 Matthieu Husson and Samuel Gessner Open Access Download PDF	211
The ‘Orchestration’ of Manuscripts: Ottonian Gospel Books from Bamberg Cathedral and Their Liturgical Use Jochen H. Vennebusch Open Access Download PDF	241
Reading the Psalms: The Relationship between Visual Organisation and Ritual in Medieval Latin Psalter Manuscripts Karin Becker Open Access Download PDF	273
The Use of Anisong Manuscripts at Funerals in Northern Thailand and Laos Silpsupa Jaengsawang Open Access Download PDF	303
Manuscripts as Performers
The Palace as ‘Theatre of Knowledge’: Performing with Manuscripts in the Alfonsine Court Laura Fernández Fernández Open Access Download PDF	337
Performing (with) Multiple-Text Manuscripts in the Making of the Ethiopian Sainthood: Matter and Devotion in Ethiopia between the Fourteenth Century and the Present Time Antonella Brita Open Access Download PDF	371
Performing Renga with Manuscripts Heidi Buck-Albulet Open Access Download PDF	425
Liturgical Practice in the Light of Medieval Liturgical Books Laura Albiero Open Access Download PDF	453
Objects or Actors? Medieval Latin Manuscripts in Ritual Performances Felix Heinzer Open Access Download PDF	471
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	511
Index of Written Artefacts Open Access Download PDF	515

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: scholars and students of manuscript, liturgical and performance studies, history of science and religions, art history
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 520
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 26
- Coloured Illustrations: 83
- Coloured Line drawings: 5
- Tables: 7
Keywords: handwritten artefacts; performance; ceremony; calculations

eBook

Published: December 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783111343556

Hardcover

Published: December 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783111343471