Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520

By: Rhiannon Daniels

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Synopsis: As a new digital era increasingly impacts on the 'age of print', we are ever more conscious of the way in which information is packaged and received. The influence of the material form on the reading process was no less important during the gradual shift from manuscript to early print culture. Focusing on the physical structure and presentation of manuscripts and printed books containing texts by one of the most influential authors of the medieval period, Rhiannon Daniels traces the evolving social, cultural, and economic profile of Boccaccio's readership and the scribes and printers who laboured to reproduce three of his works: the Teseida , Decameron , and De mulieribus claris . Rhiannon Daniels is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Italian at the University of Leeds.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 242 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781351573399
Related ISBNs:: 9781906540494, 9781315096209, 9780367602307
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 08/27/23
Copyrighted By:: Francis
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Language Arts, Communication, Foreign Language Study
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.