Emily Steiner

Gebundenes Buch

John Trevisa's Information Age

Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, C. 1400

Beschreibung

Explores reference books in the medieval period including informational texts, encyclopedias, histories, and manuals, with particular attention to John Trevisa's translations and how these influenced the form and development of vernacular English literature.

Autor

Emily Steiner is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her BA from Brown University and her PhD from Yale University. She is author of Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature and Reading Piers Plowman. She has also co-edited The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England, with Candace Barrington; Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts, with Lynn Ransom; and The Cambridge History of History Writing: England and Britain, 500-1500 with Jennifer Jahner and Elizabeth Tyler. She is Director of the International Piers Plowman Society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 168mm x 241mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780192896902
• ISBN-10: 0192896903
• Artikelnr.: 61998973