The role of the scroll : an illustrated introduction to scrolls in the Middle Ages / Thomas Forrest Kelly.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]Copyright date: c2019Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 182 pages : color illustrations; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780393285031 (hardcover)
- 0393285030 (hardcover)
- 091.094 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Athens | Non-fiction | 091 Ke (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 40000000018270 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to scrolls -- Scrolls that grow -- Representing space and time: the long red line -- Performers' scrolls -- Private scrolls: amulets, charms, and prayers -- Ritual scrolls -- Roll it back up.
"Scrolls have always been shrouded by a kind of aura, a quality of somehow standing outside of time. They hold our attention with their age, beauty, and perplexing format. Beginning in the fourth century, the codex—or book—became the preferred medium for long texts. Why, then, did some people in the Middle Ages continue to make scrolls? In The Role of the Scroll, music professor and historian Thomas Forrest Kelly brings to life the most interesting scrolls in medieval history, placing them in the context of those who made, commissioned, and used them, and reveals their remarkably varied uses."--from publisher.