Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts

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Stanford 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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Acerca del autor (1996)

Ralph Hanna, III, is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. As the reports make clear, he is a leading authority on Middle English manuscripts.

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