Information and Communication in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5HA766
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- Berglund, Louise, Queen Philippa and Vadstena Abbey: royal communication on a medieval media platform, Part of: Media and monarchy in Sweden, Göteborg, Nordicom, 2009Compulsory (p 21–32)
- Briggs, Asa; Burke, Peter, A social history of the media: from Gutenberg to the Internet, 3rd ed., Cambridge, Polity Press, 2009Compulsory
- Burrow, John Anthony, Gestures and looks in medieval narrative, Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge University Press, 2002Compulsory
- Carlquist, J, Medieval Manuscripts, Hypertext and Readings: Visions of Digital Editions, Part of: Literary and linguistic computing : journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 19, no. 1, 2004, p. 105–118Compulsory
- Carruthers, Mary J., The book of memory: a study of memory in medieval culture, 2. ed., Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2008Compulsory
- Crick, Julia C.; Walsham, Alexandra, The uses of script and print, 1300-1700, Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge University Press, 2004Compulsory
- Evenden, E; Freeman, T S, Print, Profit and Propaganda: The Elizabethan Privy Council and the 1570 Edition of Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs, Part of: The English historical review, vol. 119, no. 484, 2004, p. 1288–1307Compulsory
- Feather, J, From script to print, Part of: The information society: a study of continuity and change, 6. ed., London, Facet, 2013, p. 4–19Compulsory
- Gillespie, Alexandra; Wakelin, Daniel, The production of books in England 1350-1500, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011Compulsory
- Mitterauer, M; Chapple, G, Preaching and Printing: Early Modes of Mass Communication, Part of: Why Europe?: the medieval origins of its special path, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, c2010, p. 232–271Compulsory
- Suerbaum, Almut; Southcombe, George; Thompson, Benjamin, Polemic: language as violence in medieval and early modern discourse, Farnham, Surrey, England, Ashgate, [2015]Compulsory (p 125–148)
- Thompson, B, The Polemic of Reform in the Later Medieval Church, Part of: Polemic: language as violence in medieval and early modern discourse, Farnham, Surrey, England, Ashgate, [2015], p. 183–222Compulsory
- Tjällén, B, Political thought and political myth in late medieval national histories Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo (1470), Part of: The Medieval Chronicle, 2013, p. 273–288Compulsory
Additional material
The teacher will indicate additional source material for case studies. Students may widen their reading for the individual papers.
Reference literature
- Clemens, Raymond; Graham, Timothy, Introduction to manuscript studies, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2007Compulsory
- Rudy, Kathryn M., Piety in Pieces: How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts, Open Book Publishers, 2016Compulsory
- Undorf, Wolfgang, Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century in Swedish collections, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2012Compulsory
- Piltz, A, Studium Upsalense: specimens of the oldest lecture notes taken in the mediaeval University of Uppsala, critically ed., with an introduction, a description of the MMS., a list of abbr., and indices. Skrifter rörande Uppsala universitet. C, Organisation och historia, 36, Skrifter utgivna till Uppsala, Historiska institutionen, 1977 (Studium Upsalense : specimens of the oldest lecture notes taken in the mediaeval University of Uppsala, critically ed., with an introduction, a description of the MMS., a list of abbr., and indices. Skrifter rörande Uppsala universitet. C, Organisation och historia, 36, Skrifter utgivna till Uppsala universitets 500-årsjubileum. 1. Texter. 2, Urkunder till undervisningens historia. [Used for examples])
* Compulsory