1st Edition

New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages Collecting, Curating, Assembling

Edited By Emily N. Savage Copyright 2024
272 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume brings together scholars of history, manuscript studies, and art and architectural history to examine in conversation the varieties of medieval archival acts, the heterogeneity of collections, and the motivations of collectors. It is united by the historically flexible concept of the archive, and contributors examine material from Seville to Prague, from the early Christian period... Read more

Introduction

Emily N. Savage

 

Part I

Historical Inquiry

 

Chapter 1

History in the Making: Categories, Techniques and Chronology in Church Collections, c. 800–1400

Erik Inglis

 

Chapter 2

Reflecting a Golden Age: The Material Composition of History in Mosan Treasuries c. 1500

Elizabeth Rice Mattison

 

Chapter 3

Collecting, Curating, and Remembering in the Cathedral of Seville: A Portable Written Archive from the Fifteenth Century

Diego Belmonte Fernández

 

Part II

Use, Management, and Intervention

 

Chapter 4

The “B-side” of the Parchment: Two Mediaeval Religious Archives from the Kingdom of Leon in Spain

Rafael Ceballos-Roa and María del Carmen Rodríguez-López

 

Chapter 5

The Locus Credibilis and the Making of Urban Authority: Preserving the Written Word in Metz (Fourteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)

Amélie Marineau-Pelletier

 

Chapter 6

Almost Sacred? How Bolognese Notaries Shaped the Meaning of Archives, 1289–1294

Sarina Kuersteiner

 

 

Chapter 7

Appropriating the Archive: Promoting Legitimacy and Shaping Historical Memory through the Library of John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford

Orly Amit

 

Part III

Building the Archive

 

Chapter 8

The Records of Medieval St Andrews in the University of St Andrews Library

Rachel Hart

 

Chapter 9

The Ties That Bind: Alliance, Remembrance, and Resilience Gathered in a Flemish Widow’s Psalter

Kathleen Wilson Ruffo

 

Chapter 10

The Afterlives of Funeral Palls: Notes from the Sacristy of St. Thomas, Prague, c. 1410

Juliette Calvarin

 

Chapter 11

A Late Medieval Inventory from St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich (BL Stowe MS 871): Register, Record, Teaching Resource

Zachary Stewart

Biography

Emily N. Savage is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Art History, University of St Andrews. She received her PhD from the same institution in 2017 and also holds degrees from the University of York and New York University. Her research and teaching encompasses, broadly, the material culture of late medieval devotion, and she has previously published on the object lives of devotional manuscripts. She is currently leading the development of a new postgraduate program at the intersection of digital humanities and art history for St Andrews.