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Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet; trans. Lydia G. Cochrane.
The Color of Melancholy: The Uses of Books in the Fourteenth Century.
Published Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1997.
Series: Parallax: Re-visions of culture and Society.
ISBN 0801853818;
ISBN-13 9780801853814.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 135×220×20mm.
Page count: text xxi,186pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English; quotations given with following translation.
Overall condition good: the dustjacket on this copy has the usual mild scuffs, otherwise is not badly worn; the book itself has some mild blotches on its boards; in other respects doesn’t look heavily used, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £15.00
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[Publisher’s price $45.00]
Weight without packaging: 427g.

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Focussed on fourteenth century France, “explores the subjects of books and literate culture during the period in which vernacular literature began to displace Latin as the medium of intellectual discourse”.

Contents: Through the eyes of a monk; At wits’ end — losing one’s Latin; Genealogy hunt; The sadness when all has been said; Matter for poets; Companions in verse, wine & spirit; A century’s aged, worn-out children.

Illustrations: 8 pages of colour plates
Maps & plans: no

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 19pp
Index: yes

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