Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix

by Martha Dana Rust

"This book envisions the confines of medieval manuscripts as the potential territory of many virtual worlds: realms that readers call forth through their imaginative interactions with a book's material features. Each component of a medieval manuscript--its alphabetical characters, pages, images, text, gloss--offers an avenue of involvement with the world of books, and with the worlds in books. The explorations presented here follow those paths in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403972222
• ISBN13: 9781403972224
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.4"