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The Aesthetics of Fragments: Reading Pastedowns in Context or, Late Medieval Bookbinders, Readers, and Their Choices

Year: 2020

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Fragments become material and visual signifiers in their own right when worked into bindings as pastedowns. The potential of pastedowns - musical or otherwise - to create meanings in the perception of users attuned to such messages is investigated through four case studies. Understood emphatically as metatexts, pastedowns, by virtue of their material, visual and semantic qualities, not only may reflect binders’ and patrons’ aesthetic strategies and intentions but also have the potential to contribute in subtle ways to the construction of institutional or collective memories and identities.

Source: De Gruyter eBooks

DOI: 10.1515/9783110717884-009

Author: Karl Kügle

Language: English

Topic: Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: University of Oxford, European Commission, H2020 European Research Council

Awards: G434337789, HERA Joint Research Programme Uses of the Past, Music and Late Medieval European Court Cultures: Towards a Trans-Disciplinary and Post-National Cultural Poetics of the Performative Arts

OpenAlex ID: W3209745824

FWCI: 322.7

Cites: 16

Cited by: 45

Related to: 10