Shaping Knowledge : The Transmission of the Liber Floridus
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University of York
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 54929226
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- The Warburg Institute
- ISBN
- 9781908590725
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This massive work of scholarship (356pp.), 16 years in the making, contains important new insights on the transmission of Lambert of Saint-Omer's 'Liber Floridus' (c.1120), one of the most famous medieval encyclopaedias. It provides a richly detailed examination of how its complex material (330 texts and images across all subject areas, including history, cosmology and computistics) was rearranged, expanded, and reworked in 10 later manuscript versions, dating from the 12th to 16th centuries and located in libraries and archives, public and private, in six countries, and how it subsequently informed an even wider network of manuscripts, likewise dispersed across Europe.
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- Non-English
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