Paper in Medieval England: From Pulp to Fictions

Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
List of
Illustrations
List of
Figures
List of
Tables
A Preface with Thanks
Abbreviations and Conventions
Paper and Culture in Medieval England: An Introduction
	Paper in Culture
	Culture in Paper
	The Book
Chapter 1 Paper Stories
	A New Transnational Technology
	Early Interactions
	A Familiar Object
	A Web of Paper
	Paper: Another Story
Chapter 2 The Economics of Paper
	Close Reading of an Account
	The Particulars of Paper
		A Paper Merchant\'s Register
		The Quality of Paper
		Sizes of Paper
		The Finishing of Paper
	Paper Routes to England
		The Importation of Paper to England
		Inland Trade
	The Cost and Value of Paper
	On Nuance
Chapter 3 Writing on Paper: Tradition and Innovation
	Title Eighty, De instrumentis conficiendis
	Normalizing Change
		The Need to Write
		The Need to Write Quickly
		Writing on Paper and the Matter of Scribal Training
	Mapping Hands on Paper
	Cursivity and Paper
Chapter 4 The Character of Paper and Its Use in Medieval Books
	Sources and the Character of Paper
		Technological Knowledge
		Paper with a Purpose
	Books and the Character of Paper
		Paper Chronology: Some Observations
		Combining Technologies
		On the Question of Pre-made Quires
		The Shape of Paper
		Folding Paper
	Diverse Characters
Chapter 5 Paper in the Medieval Literary Imagination
	Chromaticity
	Plasticity
	Porosity and Tensility
	Literary Affordances
Chapter 6 Epilogue: The Age of Paper
Appendix Paper Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library of English Provenance, datable up to s. xvex
Bibliography
	Primary Sources
	Catalogues, Indices and Dictionaries
	Secondary Sources
	Digital Resources
Index of Manuscripts
General Index