The 81st issue of The La Trobe Journal focuses on the idea of the 'medieval', to coincide with the State Library of Victoria's exhibition, The Medieval Imagination. It includes an extended version of Professor David McKitterick's 2008 Foxcroft Lecture, and a feature on rebinding medieval manuscripts, by Ian Cox.
List of contents
- From the Editorial Chair
- The Hand in the Machine: Facsimiles, Libraries and the Politics of Scholarship by David McKitterick
- 'The Last Thing One Might Expect': The Medieval Court at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition by Louise D'Arcens
- 'Thingless Names'? The St George Legend in Australia by Andrew Lynch
- An Iron Maiden for Melbourne - The History and Context of Emmanuel Fremiet's 1906 Cast of Jeanne d'Arc by Ted Gott
- Flood, Fire and War: Fragmentary Manuscripts in The Medieval Imagination Exhibition by Libby Melzer
- The Rebinding of de Guileville's Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode and Pilgrimage of the Sowle by Ian Cox
- William H. Robinson, Booksellers and the Public Library of Victoria by Shane Carmody
- The Injuries of Time: Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Speght and Wade's Boat by Stephanie Trigg
- Ptolemy's Almagest: Its Dates and the Dating of Oxford, All Souls College, ms. 95 by John Crossley
- Why Study Ptolemy's Almagest? The Evidence of MS Melbourne, State Library of Victoria, Sinclair by Charles Burnett
Feature article
Ian Cox discusses the disbinding and rebinding of Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode and Pilgrimage of the Sowle, two damaged 15th-century manuscripts that the State Library of Victoria acquired in 1936.
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Obtaining a copy
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