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.
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.
Daniel Wakelin is Jeremy Griffiths Professor of Medieval English Palaeography at the University of Oxford. He is the author and editor of books including Scribal Correction and Literary Craft (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and Designing English (2017). He is also joint-winner of the 2015 SHARP De Long Prize in Book History.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Prologue: materials, making and manuscripts 2. 'Hele alle maner of schabbis': imagining perfect parchment 3. 'Who by prudence Rule him shal': controlling the layout 4. 'Þe leef torned': turning beyond the page 5. 'Rede . . . and ¿e may se': reading plain text 6. 'This is the copy': reproducing the immaterial 7. Conclusions: more than materials.
1. Prologue: materials, making and manuscripts 2. 'Hele alle maner of schabbis': imagining perfect parchment 3. 'Who by prudence Rule him shal': controlling the layout 4. 'Þe leef torned': turning beyond the page 5. 'Rede . . . and ¿e may se': reading plain text 6. 'This is the copy': reproducing the immaterial 7. Conclusions: more than materials.
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