Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences

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 investigatin...

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Main Authors Brita, Antonella, Karolewski, Janina, Husson, Matthieu, Miolo, Laure, Wimmer, Hanna
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2024
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Edition1
SeriesStudies in Manuscript Cultures
Subjects
ART / History / General
ART / Performance
ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious
calculations
ceremony
Cultural and media studies
Handschriftenkunde
handwritten artefacts
History
History and Archaeology
History of art
History of religion
History: specific events and topics
Interdisciplinary studies
Kalkulation
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion
Media studies
Performanz
Philosophy and Religion
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
RELIGION / General
Religion and beliefs
Religious and ceremonial art
Social and cultural history
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
The Arts
The Arts: treatments and subjects
Zeremonie
Zeremonie
performance
Performanz
Handschriftenkunde
ceremony
handwritten artefacts
Kalkulation
calculations
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ISBN3111343472
9783111343556
9783111343471
9783111343884
311134388X
3111343553
DOI10.1515/9783111343556

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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Manuscripts for Performances -- Making and Using Manuscripts in Theatre: The Material Dynamics of Two Nineteenth- Century Nathan der Weise Prompt Books -- Performative Aspects of Assyrian Celestial Divination and Babylonian Astronomical Diaries -- Pocket-Sized Liturgy: A Fifteenth-Century Breviary from the Abbey of San Zeno Maggiore -- Performing Multiplications Beyond the Text of Some Sanskrit Mathematical Commentaries -- A Bibliophile Performing Eclipse Computations: Lewis Caerleon and His Notebook -- Manuscripts in Performances -- Medieval Music Rolls, Scribes and Performance: The Extant Rolls of Thirteenth- Century English Polyphony -- Astronomical Computation as a Performance: Determining Planetary Positions with the Manuscript Erfurt, Angermuseum, 3134 -- The 'Orchestration' of Manuscripts: Ottonian Gospel Books from Bamberg Cathedral and Their Liturgical Use -- Reading the Psalms: The Relationship between Visual Organisation and Ritual in Medieval Latin Psalter Manuscripts -- The Use of Anisong Manuscripts at Funerals in Northern Thailand and Laos -- Manuscripts as Performers -- The Palace as 'Theatre of Knowledge': Performing with Manuscripts in the Alfonsine Court -- 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 -- Performing Renga with Manuscripts -- Liturgical Practice in the Light of Medieval Liturgical Books -- Objects or Actors? Medieval Latin Manuscripts in Ritual Performances -- Contributors -- Index of Written Artefacts
  • Matthieu Husson, Samuel Gessner --
  • Contents --
  • Silpsupa Jaengsawang --
  • Contributors --
  • A Bibliophile Performing Eclipse Computations: Lewis Caerleon and His Notebook
  • Jochen H. Vennebusch --
  • Karen Desmond --
  • Laura Albiero --
  • Performative Aspects of Assyrian Celestial Divination and Babylonian Astronomical Diaries
  • Karin Becker --
  • Laure Miolo --
  • Heidi Buck-Albulet --
  • Eva Ferro --
  • Performing Renga with Manuscripts
  • Antonella Brita --
  • The ‘Orchestration’ of Manuscripts: Ottonian Gospel Books from Bamberg Cathedral and Their Liturgical Use
  • Laura Fernández Fernández --
  • Performing Multiplications Beyond the Text of Some Sanskrit Mathematical Commentaries
  • Medieval Music Rolls, Scribes and Performance: The Extant Rolls of Thirteenth- Century English Polyphony
  • Manuscripts for Performances --
  • Manuscripts in Performances --
  • The Use of Anisong Manuscripts at Funerals in Northern Thailand and Laos
  • Alexander Weinstock, Martin Jörg Schäfer --
  • Mathieu Ossendrijver --
  • Agathe Keller --
  • Pocket-Sized Liturgy: A Fifteenth-Century Breviary from the Abbey of San Zeno Maggiore
  • Antonella Brita, Janina Karolewski, Matthieu Husson, Laure Miolo, Hanna Wimmer --
  • Index of Written Artefacts
  • The Palace as ‘Theatre of Knowledge’: Performing with Manuscripts in the Alfonsine Court
  • Introduction
  • Astronomical Computation as a Performance: Determining Planetary Positions with the Manuscript Erfurt, Angermuseum, 3134
  • Liturgical Practice in the Light of Medieval Liturgical Books
  • Frontmatter --
  • 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
  • Manuscripts as Performers --
  • Reading the Psalms: The Relationship between Visual Organisation and Ritual in Medieval Latin Psalter Manuscripts
  • Felix Heinzer --
  • Making and Using Manuscripts in Theatre: The Material Dynamics of Two Nineteenth- Century Nathan der Weise Prompt Books
  • Objects or Actors? Medieval Latin Manuscripts in Ritual Performances