Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts and Their TextsStanford University Press, 1996 - 362 páginas This volume argues, through a series of selected local studies, for the importance of textual criticism as a fundamental act of historical interpretation and recovery, pointing out the need for attention to the physical bearers of our knowledge of the English Middle Ages, the books themselves, and the ignored and alienating features of manuscript culture. It examines medieval book production, the textual uses of manuscripts, the nature of medieval meditations and looks in detail at work by Chaucer and Langland. In conclusion, the volume considers the problem of textual annotation in the light of both history and literary theory. |
Contenido
Chapter | 1 |
The Origins and Production of Westminster | 35 |
Two Lollard Codices and Lollard Book Production | 48 |
Chapter 4 | 63 |
PART III | 95 |
Chapter 7 | 115 |
Chapter 8 | 130 |
Chapter 9 | 140 |
Authorial Versions Rolling Revision Scribal Error? | 159 |
Chapter II | 174 |
MS Bodley 851 and the Dissemination | 195 |
Chapter 15 | 258 |
Pilates Voice Shirleys Case | 267 |
Notes | 283 |
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