Volume 24 of 'Studies in Manuscript Cultures’ publishedMedieval Multilingual Manuscripts

21 April 2022

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The new edition of 'Studies in Manuscript Cultures' is now available as open access. The volume contains twelve studies of individual manuscripts, which together provide cross-cultural evidence for inter-language exchange in medieval Europe and Asia.

Manuscripts provide rich documentary evidence for understanding the history of cultural life across the breadth of Europe and Asia down through the Middle Ages. Many illustrate engagement between and across languages, in both similar and contrasting ways from east to west. The demarcation of manuscript studies into single-language academic disciplines has often obscured this reality, privileging one constituent part or contributing language from each manuscript rather than exploring the combination as a nuanced and complex whole.

Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts, the latest volume in the series ‘Studies in Manuscript Cultures’, seeks to examine manuscripts as integrally united artefacts, respecting the diversity of their constituent elements. The case studies range in date from the ninth century to the late fourteenth century CE and are concerned with specific regions from Ireland to Japan. 

Edited by Michael Clarke and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, the volume is published as open access. Like almost all previous editions of the series, it can be downloaded for free from our website.