Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England
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Canterbury Tales
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Confessio Amantis
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Scale of Perfection
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Speculum Vitae
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Walter Hilton
William Caxton
William Thynne
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- ISBN 9781843845751
- Weight: 982g
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 18 Mar 2022
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.
Linne R. Mooney, Emeritus Professor of Palaeography at the University of York, has significantly advanced the study of later medieval English book production, particularly our knowledge of individual scribes; this collection honours her distinguished scholarship and responds to her wide-ranging research on Middle English manuscripts and texts.
The thirteen essays brought together here take a variety of approaches - palaeographical, codicological, dialectal, textual, art historical - to the study of the English medieval book and to the varied environments (professional, administrative, mercantile, ecclesiastical) where manuscripts were produced and used during the period 1300-1550. Acknowledging that books and readers are no respecters of borders, this collection's geographical scope extends beyond England in the east to Ghent and Flanders, and in the west to Waterford and the Dublin Pale.
Contributors explore manuscripts containing works by key writers, including Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, John Wyclif, and Walter Hilton. Major texts whose manuscript traditions are scrutinized include Speculum Vitae, the Scale of Perfection, the Canterbury Tales, and Confessio Amantis, along with a wide range of shorter works such as lyric poems, devotional texts, and historical chronicles. London book-making activities and the scribal cultures of other cities and monastic centres all receive attention, as does the book production of personal miscellanies. By considering both literary texts and the letters, charters, and writs that medieval scribes produced, in Latin and Anglo-French as well as English, this collection celebrates Professor Mooney's influence on the field and presents a holistic sense of England's pre-modern textual culture.
Margaret Connolly is Professor of Palaeography and Codicology at the University of St. Andrews. Holly James-Maddocks is Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Palaeography at the University of York The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman. Margaret Connolly is Professor of Palaeography and Codicology at the University of St. Andrews. KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON is Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame. SEBASTIAN SOBECKI is Professor of Later Medieval English Literature at the University of Toronto.
His research extends to a wide area of late medieval literary culture, especially law, travel, politics, authorship, manuscripts, and palaeography. Holly James-Maddocks is Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Palaeography at the University of York WENDY SCASE is Emeritus Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham. DANIEL W. MOSSER is Emeritus Professor of English at Virginia Tech. He has published numerous articles on fifteenth-century manuscripts and incunabula, primarily those containing Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He has collaborated on the production and maintenance of two large online reference works: The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive (with Ernest W. Sullivan II, et al.), and the Digital Index of Middle English Verse (together with Linne R. Mooney, et al.). The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.
