Art and books
Are medieval manuscripts considered art? Can art be made by accident? The definition of art is bound up in socio-cultural-political context that can create a set of dominant values/biases and varies based on what aesthetic values (composition, form, and color)
What effect might these different approaches have on the finished product? In what ways does this make manuscripts different to modern books? Medieval manuscripts are often thought of as encompassing two defining eras, the monastic and the secular. The making
How and why your definition of ‘book’ has changed? Investigating the history of the written word has expanded my knowledge of how text and the written word have evolved to what it is today. Predecessors of the contemporary book came
Without looking in the dictionary or searching online, write your own definition of the term ‘book’: My working definition of a book is “a written, printed or illustrated body of work; traditionally composed of bound pages and often includes chapters
