Touching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts : Volume 2: Social Encounters with the Book
In the late middle ages (ca. 1200-1520), both religious and secular people used manuscripts, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of their use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, public reading, and memorializing the dead, is the subject of Kathryn...
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2023
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