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Books of hours as text compilations in the Low countries

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Books of hours, as we all know, were copied in droves in the late Middle Ages and supported the devotion of the faithful. They usually contain a calendar and several liturgical offices such as the Hours of the Virgin and the Office of the dead, and additional texts in Latin or Vernacular. Although they are known to all Medievalists, especially to art historians, books of hours are often overlooked or despised as a standard mass production. Yet, they are part in the cultural and even intellectual life of the Middle Ages. They circulate and transmit different sets of texts, and constitute precious sources on medieval devotion, liturgy, social representation, and text dissemination in Western medieval society. Paradoxically, if we go into the detail of textual analysis, they are an utmost diverse and complex corpus. In this paper, we will define them as codified compilations of compilations. In their turn, these compilations constitute a network of texts and manuscripts. This paper proposes to analyse specifically the networks of manuscripts and texts in the Low countries to better understand how the interdependence of devotion, commercial imperatives, and mass production gave birth to hybrid texts. In the first part, we will define Hours as multi-layered compilations and highlight how network analysis may be applied to them. In a second part, we will address the specifics of the book production in the Southern Low Countries. In the third and last part, we will show that these compilations could cross-contaminate in the local workshop production and give birth to hybrid manuscripts with original positions in the network.

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hal-03112110 , version 1 (02-02-2021)

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Dominique Stutzmann, Louis Chevalier. Books of hours as text compilations in the Low countries. Networks of Manuscripts, Networks of Texts, Evina Steinová (Huygens ING), Oct 2020, Amsterdam, Netherlands. ⟨hal-03112110⟩
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