{"id":758,"date":"2012-09-06T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.stefanschleifer.com\/codex\/?p=758"},"modified":"2013-03-22T14:46:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T14:46:57","slug":"poster-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"Poster Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" id=\"attachment_1746\" style=\"width: 256px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Brugge-MSS-Paneel-de-Roovere-klein2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1746\" alt=\"Bruges - Museum Saint Salvatorchurch: Panel with a text by Anthonis de Roovere (as published in Hogenelst and Van Oostrom 'Handgeschreven wereld' (2002))\" src=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Brugge-MSS-Paneel-de-Roovere-klein2-246x300.jpg\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Brugge-MSS-Paneel-de-Roovere-klein2-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Brugge-MSS-Paneel-de-Roovere-klein2.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Bruges &#8211; Museum Saint Salvator Church: Panel with a text by Anthonis de Roovere (published in Hogenelst and Van Oostrom (2002), see Bibliography)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<div id=\"attachment_848\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/que002199901ill03.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-848\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-848\" title=\"_que002199901ill03\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/que002199901ill03-300x230.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/que002199901ill03-300x230.gif 300w, https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/que002199901ill03-390x300.gif 390w, https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/que002199901ill03.gif 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two texts on the wall, left and top centre (published in Queeste (1999, see Further reading: Reynaert)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When you start looking for medieval texts that were not in manuscripts, you realize that there must have been a world of words in the cities of the later Middle Ages.\u00a0Not only do we find <a title=\"Captions\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=753\">captions <\/a>to statues, objects and buidlings, but apparently it was common to post longer texts on walls in churches as well. These texts provided usefull information to the readers.\u00a0The question arrises: how many people could actually read in the Middle Ages? It is one of those questions that will always remain unanswered.In the <a title=\"Geraardsbergen Manuscript\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=368\"><em>Geraardsbergen Manuscript<\/em> <\/a>we find several examples of poster texts: <a title=\"Geraardsbergen Manuscript: Text 23\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=354\">Text 23 <\/a>and\u00a0<a title=\"Geraardsbergen Manuscript: Text 73\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=356\">Text 73<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruges &#8211; Museum Saint Salvator Church: Panel with a text by Anthonis de Roovere (published in Hogenelst and Van Oostrom (2002), see Bibliography) When you start looking for medieval texts that were not in manuscripts, you realize that there must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=758\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}