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Roman de la Rose Digital Library

Roman de la Rose Digital Library. A New View of Medieval Manuscripts. Nadia Altschul and David Reynolds The Johns Hopkins Univesity. Material Philology radically changed scope of research. How does medieval “originality” work?

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Roman de la Rose Digital Library

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  1. Roman de la Rose Digital Library A New View of Medieval Manuscripts Nadia Altschul and David Reynolds The Johns Hopkins Univesity

  2. Material Philologyradically changed scope of research • How does medieval “originality” work? • Why do medievals introduce changes when copying someone else’s text? • How do text and image interact? • What is the meaning of variance? • How does each exemplar interact with the social context of its production?

  3. The French Roman de la Rose: • It was a best-seller • Lavishly illustrated • Some 300 surviving manuscripts • Re-internationalizes Medieval Studies

  4. Danger:the most challenging and ambiguous character“He was large and black, with bristly hair, and his eyes were as red as fire, his nose was flat, his face hideous”

  5. “Orientalized” Dangier Morgan 948 f.32v Ferrell f.16r

  6. Dark-skinned “savage” Dangier Morgan 948 f.144r Morgan 948 f.78r

  7. Uncouth and “animalized” Dangier Douce 332 f.143r Douce 332 f.142r

  8. Development of Rose Site • Phase 1, 1998-2005 • Mellon Grant I, 2005-2007 • Mellon Grant II, 2007-2008 • Self-sustaining service, 2009-

  9. Narrative Sections

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