18 Facts About Manuscript culture

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Manuscript culture uses manuscripts to store and disseminate information; in the West, it generally preceded the age of printing.

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Late manuscript culture was characterized by a desire for uniformity, well-ordered and convenient access to the text contained in the manuscript, and ease of reading aloud.

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Manuscript culture seems to have really begun around the 10th century.

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Manuscript culture seeks to reinforce the importance of older statutes regarding manuscript production, such as the Carthusian statutes, and the way in which he seeks to correct them.

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Manuscript culture stated that scribes shouldn't instantly correct according to one or the other, but deliberate, and use proper judgment.

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Manuscript culture incorporated many of these elements into his Opus Pacis, which was copied and put to practical use, and had spread from Germany as far north as Ireland.

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Manuscript culture's work was based on Ovid's, and many Ovidian myths were traditionally illuminated, in the medieval period.

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Manuscript culture incorporated astrology, Latin texts, and a wide variety of classical mythology in fleshing out Ovid's account, maintaining her humanist motivations.

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Manuscript culture's Othea is a bricolage, restructuring tradition while not trying to create a new master work.

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10.

Othea reflected a late manuscript culture that was defined by violence, action, and gender challenges within literature.

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11.

Manuscript culture's Chaucer transcended medieval ideals, and became timeless, conforming to humanistic ideals.

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12.

Manuscript culture removed the influence of manuscript culture, that allowed the reader to have some textual authority.

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13.

Manuscript culture believed that cheap versions of this authorial Chaucer would allow a diverse group of readers to develop common economic and political ideals, unifying the culture of England.

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Many scholars of print culture, as well as classicists, have argued that inconsistencies existed among manuscripts due to the blind copying of texts and a static manuscript culture that existed during the rise of the printing press.

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Much of the recent scholarship on Late Manuscript Culture was specifically generated by Elizabeth Eisenstein, a key print culture scholar, and arguably creator of the "print culture" model.

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16.

Manuscript culture did not detail the state of manuscript and scribal culture in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, however.

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17.

Manuscript culture described in depth the conditions present in Germany at the time of the printing presses' invention in Mainz, and detailed the scribal culture in England and France in order to compare print culture and manuscript culture.

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Manuscript culture didn't describe Italian humanists in Florence and renewed religious orders of the Modern Devotion in the Low Countries and Germany.

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