A riveting account of the conflicts between man and machine, and an examination of the reasons for the rising number of disasters in our high-tech world. Product details Format Hardback | 304 pages Dimensions 159 x 235 x 25mm | 640g Publication date...
Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded.
Hidden Hands tells the stories of the artisans, artists, scribes and readers, patrons and collectors who made and kept the beautiful, fragile objects that have survived the ravages of fire, water and deliberate destruction to form a picture of both English culture and the wider European culture of which it is part.
Without manuscripts, she shows, many historical figures would be lost to us, as well as those of lower social status, women and people of colour, their stories erased, and the remnants of their labours destroyed.
From the Cuthbert Bible, to works including those by the Beowulf poet, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, Sir Thomas Malory, Chaucer, the Paston Letters and Shakespeare, Mary Wellesley describes the production and preservation of these priceless objects. With an insistent emphasis on the early role of women as authors and artists and illustrated with over fifty colour plates, Hidden Hands is an important contribution to our understanding of literature and history.
Product details
- Hardback | 368 pages
- 158 x 236 x 38mm | 767g
- 07 Oct 2021
- Quercus Publishing
- riverrun
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 9781529400939
- 4,941
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