Image, Knife, and Gluepot

Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print

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Kathryn M. Rudy: Image, Knife, and Gluepot (2019, Open Book Publishers)

366 pages

Published Aug. 13, 2019 by Open Book Publishers.

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978-0-14-5-4
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"In this ingenious study, Kathryn Rudy takes the reader on a journey to trace the birth, life and afterlife of a Netherlandish book of hours made in 1500. Image, Knife, and Gluepot painstakingly reconstructs the process by which this manuscript was created and discusses its significance as a text at the forefront of fifteenth-century book production, when the invention of mechanically-produced images led to the creation of new multimedia objects. Rudy then travels to the nineteenth century to examine the phenomenon of manuscript books being pillaged for their prints and drawings: she has diligently tracked down the dismembered parts of this book of hours for the first time. Image, Knife, and Gluepot also documents Rudy’s twenty-first-century research process, as she hunts through archives while grappling with the logistics and occasionally the limits of academic research.

This is a timely volume, focusing on questions of materiality at the forefront of medieval …

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  • Sacred texts
  • Literary studies: classical, early & medieval

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