Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts
Manuscripts provide rich documentary evidence for understanding the history of cultural life across breadth Europe and Asia down through Middle Ages. Many illustrate engagement between languages, in both similar contrasting ways from east to west. The demarcation manuscript studies into single-language academic disciplines has often obscured this reality, privileging one constituent part or contributing language each rather than exploring combination as a nuanced complex whole. This volume seeks examine manuscripts integrally united artefacts, respecting diversity their elements. Case are presented twelve with various levels inter-language exchange collision, horizons diverse Atlantic West, Carolingian Europe, Byzantine world, Silk Road cultures, Asia. essays function individually discrete contributions, but together they highlight range overlapping themes, illustrating interaction global religions, pedagogical exchange, secular society-building.The analogies well concrete points connection them underline value cross-disciplinary approach.
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