Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Editor’s Preface
- Dedication
- Abbreviations
- The Planctus on the Death of William Longsword (943) as a Source for Tenth-Century Culture in Normandy and Aquitaine (The R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2013)
- Biblical Vocabulary and National Discourse in Twelfth-Century England
- Border, Trade Route, or Market? The Channel and the Medieval European Economy from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century
- Guerno the Forger and His Confession
- From Codex to Roll: Illustrating History in the Anglo-Norman World in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- The Adoption and Routinization of Scottish Royal Charter Production for Lay Beneficiaries, 1124–1195
- Women and Power in the Roman de Rou of Wace
- Literacy and Estate Administration in a Great Anglo-Norman Nunnery: Holy Trinity, Caen, in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- The King and His Sons: Henry II’s and Frederick Barbarossa’s Succession Strategies Compared
- In vinea Sorech laborare: The Cultivation of Unity in Twelfth-Century Monastic Historiography
- The Redaction of Cartularies and Economic Upheaval in Western England c.996–1096
- Monastic Space and the Use of Books in the Anglo-Norman Period
- 1074 in the Twelfth Century
- Contents Of Volumes 1–34
Monastic Space and the Use of Books in the Anglo-Norman Period
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Editor’s Preface
- Dedication
- Abbreviations
- The Planctus on the Death of William Longsword (943) as a Source for Tenth-Century Culture in Normandy and Aquitaine (The R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2013)
- Biblical Vocabulary and National Discourse in Twelfth-Century England
- Border, Trade Route, or Market? The Channel and the Medieval European Economy from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century
- Guerno the Forger and His Confession
- From Codex to Roll: Illustrating History in the Anglo-Norman World in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- The Adoption and Routinization of Scottish Royal Charter Production for Lay Beneficiaries, 1124–1195
- Women and Power in the Roman de Rou of Wace
- Literacy and Estate Administration in a Great Anglo-Norman Nunnery: Holy Trinity, Caen, in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- The King and His Sons: Henry II’s and Frederick Barbarossa’s Succession Strategies Compared
- In vinea Sorech laborare: The Cultivation of Unity in Twelfth-Century Monastic Historiography
- The Redaction of Cartularies and Economic Upheaval in Western England c.996–1096
- Monastic Space and the Use of Books in the Anglo-Norman Period
- 1074 in the Twelfth Century
- Contents Of Volumes 1–34
Summary
In an exhibition of manuscripts from Anglo-Norman England held to mark the thirty-sixth Battle Conference, the Eadwine Psalter (Trinity College, MS R.17.1) held pride of place as one of the masterpieces of Anglo-Norman book production. It was made during the mid-twelfth century by teams of scribes and artists working in collaboration at the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, and contains a triple psalter together with liturgical calendar and canticles, each psalm accompanied by a Latin psalter gloss, prologues and collects, Old English and Anglo-Norman interlinear translations, and pictorial illustration. A decade or so after the book was completed, various additions were entered on blank leaves at the end, including the famous full-page portrait of the monk-scribe Eadwine (fol. 283v) and, extending across a double-opening, a coloured pictographic drawing of the entire monastic complex (fols 284v–285r), including a depiction of the pressure-fed, piped water system newly installed by Wibert, prior of Christ Church from around 1153 to 1167. This was the opening chosen for the exhibition, rotated 180 degrees to return the drawing to its original orientation, with east at the top. The plan is of exceptional intrinsic interest, but the choice of opening was also intended in part to exemplify the subject of this article: the relationship between a community’s books and the settings within which they were used. The study of monastic architecture in England over the past few decades has both advanced our understanding of the chronology of building and adaptation of architectural structures, especially at the earliest Cistercian foundations, and encouraged consideration of the relationship between the structures and the spaces they enclosed to liturgical and other aspects of monastic practice.This article introduces a further dimension to our understanding of the monastic precinct and the religious observance it served by focusing upon the role of books within communal practice. It aims, in particular, to draw attention to the number and range of books that were used for the oral delivery of readings to the community as a whole within each of the various parts of the claustral complex, and to the relationship between the programmes of readings delivered as part of the customs associated with each physical space.
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- Anglo-Norman Studies 36Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2013, pp. 221 - 240Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014
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