Author: Margaret ConnollyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 184384575X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.
Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England
Author: Margaret ConnollyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 184384575X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.
The Genesis of Books
Author: Alger Nicolaus DoanePublisher: Brepols Pub
ISBN: 9782503539669
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"A book about books - how the medieval world in which they were conceived shaped the objects we know today. This volume is about the book itself, as shaped and made by medieval scribes and as conditioned by the cultural understandings that were present in the world where those scribes lived. Questions relating to the provenance, compilation, script, function, and use--both medieval and modern--of manuscripts are raised and are resolved in a fresh manner. The focal point of the volume is Anglo-Saxon England, approached as a cultural crossroads east and west, with attention given to English manuscripts produced both before and after the Conquest. The book thus contributes to a reassessment of early English culture as complex, emergent, and multi-stranded. A number of different literary genres and types are explored, ranging from devotional materials (e.g. psalters, sermons, and illustrated gospel books) to texts of a more worldly orientation. A number of plates illustrate the work of particular scribes. While some beautiful codices are showcased, the emphasis falls on plain books written in English, including the Vercelli Book, the Exeter Book, and the Blickling Homilies. Analyses of the history of palaeography and the theory of editing raise the point that whatever we know from old books is conditioned by the tools used to study them."--Publisher's website.
Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England
Author: Matthew FisherPublisher: Interventions: New Studies Med
ISBN: 9780814211984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Based on new readings of some of the least-read texts by some of the best-known scribes of later medieval England, Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England reconceptualizes medieval scribes as authors, and the texts surviving in medieval manuscripts as authored. Culling evidence from history writing in later medieval England, Matthew Fisher concludes that we must reject the axiomatic division between scribe and author. Using the peculiarities of authority and intertextuality unique to medieval historiography, Fisher exposes the rich ambiguities of what it means for medieval scribes to "write" books. He thus frames the composition, transmission, and reception--indeed, the authorship--of some medieval texts as scribal phenomena. History writing is an inherently intertextual genre: in order to write about the past, texts must draw upon other texts. Scribal Authorship demonstrates that medieval historiography relies upon quotation, translation, and adaptation in such a way that the very idea that there is some line that divides author from scribe is an unsustainable and modern critical imposition. Given the reality that a scribe's work was far more nuanced than the simplistic binary of error and accuracy would suggest, Fisher completely overturns many of our assumptions about the processes through which manuscripts were assembled and texts (both canonical literature and the less obviously literary) were composed.
Poets and Scribes in Late Medieval England
Author: Michael JohnstonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501516485
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Susanna Fein’s long and distinguished scholarly career has helped to redefine how we understand the role of scribes and manuscripts from late medieval England. She has carried out groundbreaking research on seminal manuscripts (e.g., Harley 2253, the Thornton Manuscripts, John Audley’s autograph manuscript, and the Auchinleck Manuscript). She has written extensively on the more complex and challenging metrical forms the period produced. And she has edited foundational primary texts and collections of essays. A wide range of scholars have been influenced by Fein’s work, many of whom present original research—much of it following trails first laid down by Fein—in this volume.
Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England
Author: Daniel WakelinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009121413
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This volume elucidates the craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes of scribes of late medieval English manuscripts to students and researchers. Introducing misunderstood and overlooked aspects of these manuscripts, it convincingly challenges current understandings of late medieval literary and material culture.
Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England
Author: Margaret ConnollyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1903153247
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"One of the most important developments in medieval English literary studies since the 1980s has been the growth of manuscript studies. The thirteen essays in this volume discuss aspects of the design and distribution of manuscripts in late medieval England, focusing particularly on vernacular manuscripts of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries." "This binary focus on secular and devotional texts illuminates shared networks of production and dissemination, and considerably expands current knowledge of regional and metropolitan book production in the period before printing."--BOOK JACKET.
Scribal Correction and Literary Craft
Author: Daniel WakelinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781316073933
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"This extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate, and on prose works such as chronicles, religious instruction and practical lore. His materials are the variants and corrections found in manuscripts, phenomena usually studied only by editors or palaeographers, but his method is the close reading and interpretation typical of literary criticism. From the corrections emerge often overlooked aspects of English literary thinking in the late Middle Ages: scribes, readers and authors seek, though often fail to achieve, invariant copying, orderly spelling, precise diction, regular verse and textual completeness. Correcting reveals their impressive attention to scribal and literary craft - its rigour, subtlety, formalism and imaginativeness - in an age with little other literary criticism in English"--
The Middle English Book
Author: Michael JohnstonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192699814
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue—in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science—but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. The Middle English Book addresses a series of questions about the copying and circulation of literature in late medieval England: How do we make sense of the variety of manuscripts surviving from this period? Who copied and disseminated these diverse manuscripts? Who read the literary texts that they transmit? And what was the relationship between those copying literature and those reading it? To answer these questions, this book examines 202 literary manuscripts from the period 1350 to 1500. First, this study suggests that most surviving manuscripts fall into four categories, depending on the proximity and relationship of that manuscript's scribes and readers. But beyond proposing these new categories, this book also looks at the history of writing practices, and demonstrates the ubiquity of bureaucracies within late medieval England. As a result, The Middle English Book argues that literary production was a decentered affair, one that took place within these numerous, modest, yet complex, bureaucracies. But this book also argues that, because literary production arose in such scattered bureaucracies, manuscripts were local products, produced within the cultural and economic milieu of their users. Manuscripts thus form a fundamentally different sort of cultural artefact than the printed books with which we are familiar—a form of centralized, urbanized, and commercialized textual production that was just over the historical horizon in late medieval England.
The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry
Author: Kathryn Kerby-FultonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252632
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The first study of the poetics of vocational crisis in Langland, Hoccleve, and Audelay, and many unattributed works, The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry discusses class, meritocracy, the gig economy, precarity, and the breaking of intellectual elites, speaking to both past and present employment urgencies.
Monarchy, State and Political Culture in Late Medieval England
Author: Gwilym DoddPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1903153956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
New approaches to the political culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, considering its complex relation to monarchy and state.