Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Literary approaches
- Chapter 3. ‘Properties’ as a guide to salvation
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- Foragers and gleaners
- Fertility and growth
- The properties of bees
- The unstable world
- Natura and remedies
- Learning to submit
- Lightening the burden
- Rest and reward
- The lord’s familia
- The celibate servant
- Travelling through the world and the book
- Book 19: Coming full circle
- Good doctrine and good works
- Choosing the right path
- Harmony and reconciliation
- Chapter 4. The world and the journey
- Chapter 5. ‘Properties’, salvation and social order in late-medieval England
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- The friars in England
- Social order and disorder
- ‘Properties’ moralised
- Labouring and voyaging
- Models of good behaviour …
- … and bad behaviour
- ‘Properties’ and a noble English family
- ‘Properties’, power and prestige
- Lords of their domains
- The English and the French
- The Berkeleys and the king
- ‘Properties’ in London
- Chapter 6. An authoritative source
- Chapter 7. Navigating tides of change: Bartholomew and the English
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- The Berthelet edition: ‘bycause this werke is so profitable’
- English writers, English history
- English foundation legends
- Stephen Batman 'uppon Bartholome'
- Batman’s changes
- An emphasis on English history
- ‘The fressher writers’
- Batman at home
- Batman’s complaints
- Batman and cosmology
- ‘Warning all men to the judgement’
- Collecting knowledge for the nation
- ‘Shakespeare’s encyclopedia’
- Chapter 8. Conclusion
- British Library Manuscript Arundel 123, the contents of the codex.
- Abridgement of ‘Properties’ in Bodleian Library Manuscript Laud Miscellany 682.
- References
- Index
List of Figures
- Figure 1: Map of thirteenth-century Christendom showing places significant in the making, transmission and English reception of De proprietatibus rerum.
- Figure 2: The 19 Books of De proprietatibus rerum.
- Figure 3: The Psalter Map, British Library Additional Ms 28681, f.9 recto. Circa 1260.
- Figure 4: The Psalter Map, British Library Additional Ms 28681, f.9 verso. Circa 1260.
- Figure 5: Map of the world on the title page of Book 8, Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1495.
- Figure 6: Title-page woodcut for Book 19, Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1495.
- Figure 7: Title-page and part of Table of Contents, Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum. Printed by Thomas Berthelet, 1535. Copy BL 456.a.1 formerly owned by Joseph Banks.
Map of Europe in c.1230, showing locations significant within The Journey of a Book. Approx. indications of the frontiers of Christendom (western and eastern) and Islam, and of the Mongol advance, are based on McEvedy, Colin. The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History. London: Penguin Books, 1992, pp.73, 77.