@article{1381240, recid = {1381240}, author = {Nichols, Stephen G. and Wenzel, Siegfried,}, title = {The Whole book : cultural perspectives on the medieval miscellany /}, publisher = {University of Michigan Press,}, address = {Ann Arbor :}, pages = {viii, 188 pages :}, year = {1996}, abstract = {Before the computer, even before the printed book, medieval manuscripts used hypertext in organizing space that was naturally interdisciplinary. The Whole Book, edited by Stephen G. Nichols and Siegfried Wenzel, assembles findings from a diverse group of well-respected medievalists, classicists, and text critics. Their many areas of research have intersected in this study of how medieval manuscripts developed mechanisms for using the available space in the technologies of the codex, which we now know as the book. The scholars presented here, whose own fields of study range from Latin religious texts to vernacular romance, comment on one particular category of manuscript, the "miscellany." This genre of manuscript had the ability to accommodate a wide variety of written documents, making it difficult to classify.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1381240}, }