Crafting Knowledge in the Early Medieval Book

Collection and concealment were hallmarks of early medieval book culture. Materials of all kinds were collected, collated, concealed, condensed, correlated, paraphrased, reorganised, and repurposed in early medieval manuscripts. This volume of essays explores how knowledge was made in the early medieval book in the Latin West through two interrelated practices: collecting and concealing.

La recopilación y la ocultación eran rasgos distintivos de la cultura del libro altomedieval. En los manuscritos altomedievales se recopilaban, cotejaban, ocultaban, condensaban, correlacionaban, parafraseaban, reorganizaban y reutilizaban materiales de todo tipo. Este volumen de ensayos explora cómo se elaboraba el conocimiento en el libro altomedieval del Occidente latino a través de dos prácticas interrelacionadas: la recopilación y la ocultación.