Opening the Medieval Folding Almanac.
- Author / Editor
- Silva, Chelsea.
Opening the Medieval Folding Almanac.
- Published
- Exemplaria 30 (2018): 49-65; 3 color illus.
- Description
- Considers the medieval folding almanac as a tool to access information, examining British Library, MS Harley 937, the prologue of which uses Astr "to explain its intention to satisfy its uneducated reader," posing Astr as a "model for its instructional content." Uses Gilles Deleuze's "formulation of the fold" to argue that folding almanacs facilitate a "restless, embodied negotiation of the space between readers, writers, and their objects."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Treatise on the Astrolabe
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Manuscripts and Textual Studies