ORIETTA DA ROLD
Biographic Data
| ID | 5786256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | ORIETTA DA ROLD |
| GIVEN NAMES | ORIETTA |
| FAMILY NAME | DA ROLD |
| SIGNATURE | DA ROLD O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction: Paper and Poetry – Interventions in Theory and Practice
Medieval Clerical Culture: The Sociology of Scripts and the Significance of Scribal Quirks
This essay examines the question of scribal training and the significance of scribal quirks in late medieval manuscript culture and the extent to which an analysis of these issues may help to shed new light on the current thinking on the work of London clerks, scriveners, and scribes. Using the recent debate on Adam Pinkhurst’s script and my work on the scribe of Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.4.24, I reconsider the modus scribendi of medie…
Essay Cluster: “Communities of Practice: New Methodological Approaches to Adam Pinkhurst and Chaucer’s Earliest Scribes”
Tradition and Innovation in Cataloguing Medieval Manuscripts
In this essay, I offer a brief history of manuscript cataloguing and some observations on the innovations this practice introduced especially in the digital form. This history reveals that as the cataloguing of medieval manuscripts developed over time, so did the research needs it served. What was often considered traditional cataloguing practices had to be mediated to accommodate new scholarly advance, posing interesting questions, for example, …
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts
The scholarship and teaching of manuscript studies has been transformed by digitisation, rendering previously rarefied documents accessible for study on a vast scale. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts orientates students in the complex, multidisciplinary study of medieval book production and contemporary display of manuscripts from c.600–1500. Accessible explanations draw on key case studies to illustrate the major methodolo…
Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts
Paper in Medieval England: From Pulp to Fictions
Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A.S.G. Edwards
Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture. Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland, C…
Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts
This study includes new essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and texts.
English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 and the Making of a Re‐source 1
Eleventh‐, twelfth‐ and thirteenth‐century England is a complex multilingual jigsaw, and a much underestimated period of literary production. This article surveys and explores the close relationship between English, Latin and French book production, offering valuable insights into English manuscript culture in this period and re‐contextualising texts and their manuscripts, calling for each to be studied in its own right and understood as part of …
Medieval Clerical Culture: The Sociology of Scripts and the Significance of Scribal Quirks
This essay examines the question of scribal training and the significance of scribal quirks in late medieval manuscript culture and the extent to which an analysis of these issues may help to shed new light on the current thinking on the work of London clerks, scriveners, and scribes. Using the recent debate on Adam Pinkhurst’s script and my work on the scribe of Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.4.24, I reconsider the modus scribendi of medie…
English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 and the Making of a Re‐source 1
Eleventh‐, twelfth‐ and thirteenth‐century England is a complex multilingual jigsaw, and a much underestimated period of literary production. This article surveys and explores the close relationship between English, Latin and French book production, offering valuable insights into English manuscript culture in this period and re‐contextualising texts and their manuscripts, calling for each to be studied in its own right and understood as part of …
Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts
This study includes new essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and texts.
Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A.S.G. Edwards
Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture. Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland, C…
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts
The scholarship and teaching of manuscript studies has been transformed by digitisation, rendering previously rarefied documents accessible for study on a vast scale. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts orientates students in the complex, multidisciplinary study of medieval book production and contemporary display of manuscripts from c.600–1500. Accessible explanations draw on key case studies to illustrate the major methodolo…
Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts
Paper in Medieval England: From Pulp to Fictions
Tradition and Innovation in Cataloguing Medieval Manuscripts
In this essay, I offer a brief history of manuscript cataloguing and some observations on the innovations this practice introduced especially in the digital form. This history reveals that as the cataloguing of medieval manuscripts developed over time, so did the research needs it served. What was often considered traditional cataloguing practices had to be mediated to accommodate new scholarly advance, posing interesting questions, for example, …
Medieval Clerical Culture: The Sociology of Scripts and the Significance of Scribal Quirks
This essay examines the question of scribal training and the significance of scribal quirks in late medieval manuscript culture and the extent to which an analysis of these issues may help to shed new light on the current thinking on the work of London clerks, scriveners, and scribes. Using the recent debate on Adam Pinkhurst’s script and my work on the scribe of Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.4.24, I reconsider the modus scribendi of medie…
Essay Cluster: “Communities of Practice: New Methodological Approaches to Adam Pinkhurst and Chaucer’s Earliest Scribes”
Introduction: Paper and Poetry – Interventions in Theory and Practice
History (6 works) · Medieval Literature and History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Books (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)