The Making and Meaning of a Medieval Manuscript

Develops a method for placing book-historical evidence in dialogue with literary meaning through a detailed investigation of a MS Bodley 851. How do you read a medieval book? And what is the relationship between the study of manuscripts as material artifacts and the study of their textual contents? This book develops a method for placing book-historical evidence in dialogue with literary meaning. Medieval manuscripts do not simply witness the texts they contain: through the process of their maki