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E-book The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages

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f a poll were carried out to establish which form of manuscript, the codex or the roll, the public associated more with the Middle Ages, the result would probably see the codex taking most votes. A monk handling a codex is a stereotypical image of and for the Middle Ages promoted by medieval evidence as much as by modern movie productions such as the film adaptation of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. While this image is by no means false, it somewhat distorts the picture. Rolls were also wide-spread in the Middle Ages and there was hardly anything that could not be written on them. To point only to some of their uses: they served to record administrative and ju-dicial matters, prayers, the names of deceased monks, theatre scripts, historiography or charms.1 There was thus a good chance that a codex-handling monk would also deal with a roll at some point in his life. Moreover, when entering a church, our monk and his contemporaries would very probably not only have seen the representation of Christ holding a book, but also of prophets holding scrolls.2 Like the codex, scrolls were part of the ecclesiastical iconographic program. Symbolizing the Hebrew Scrip-tures, they were carved into the facades of many churches and, as a consequence, into the consciousness of the onlooker. Even if one did not use rolls, one knew about their existence.Historians have not ignored the great variety of rolls and have always been ready to exploit their contents. They have paid much less attention, however, to the rolls themselves and the relationship between the roll and its content. It is the purpose of this volume to readdress that imbalance by looking at rolls in England and France in the late Middle Ages. The theoretical framework for this work is provided by the Collaborative Research Centre 933 ‘Material Text Cultures’ (CRC 933) at Heidelberg University. In this volume, the focus on materiality and praxeology are tested on administrative, genealogical and amulet rolls from England and France in the late Middle Ages. It should be emphasized that the questions raised by taking these perspectives are by no means new. They have always been lurking in the background of those working in the auxiliary sciences, in particular the codicologists, the diplomatists, the pale-ographers, and the archivists. It suffices to point to Wilhelm Wattenbach’s ground-breaking Das Schriftwesen im Mittelalter published in 1871 that dealt at some length with different materials and forms,10 or to Richard Rouse’s study on Roll and Codex in the context of Reinmar of Zweter’s poems, published in 1981.11 Yet, despite such good preconditions, the materiality and praxeology of rolls have only slowly gained promi-nence in historical studies. While this is not the place for a comprehensive analysis of the past study of rolls, in particular the reciprocal influences of German, French and English scholarship—a topic worthy of a research project in itself—some signposts for the historiographical development need to be given. In what follows, I focus first on administrative rolls, then on genealogical rolls and finally, on amulet rolls.

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936 CAS t

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Berlin : De Gruyter., 2020

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339 hlm

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English

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9783110645200

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936

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computer

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online resource

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History of Ancient Europe to 499

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