A Digital Catalogue Of The Pre 1500 Manuscripts And Incunables Of The Canterbury Tales

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Chaucer's Scribes

Author : Lawrence Warner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108640990
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Scribes written by Lawrence Warner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2004 announcement that Chaucer's scribe had been discovered resulted in a paradigm shift in medieval studies. Adam Pynkhurst dominated the classroom, became a fictional character, and led to suggestions that this identification should prompt the abandonment of our understanding of the development of London English and acceptance that the clerks of the Guildhall were promoting vernacular literature as part of a concerted political program. In this meticulously researched study, Lawrence Warner challenges the narratives and conclusions of recent scholarship. In place of the accepted story, Warner provides a fresh, more nuanced one in which many more scribes, anonymous ones, worked in conditions we are only beginning to understand. Bringing to light new information, not least, hundreds of documents in the hand of one of the most important fifteenth-century scribes of Chaucer and Langland, this book represents an important intervention in the field of Middle English studies.

The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales

Author : Frank Grady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131685082X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales written by Frank Grady and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer's best-known poem, The Canterbury Tales, is justly celebrated for its richness and variety, both literary - the Tales include fabliaux, romances, sermons, hagiographies, fantasies, satires, treatises, fables and exempla - and thematic, with its explorations of courtly love and scatology, piety and impiety, chivalry and pacifism, fidelity and adultery. Students new to Chaucer will find in this Companion a lively introduction to the poem's diversity, depth, and wonder. Readers returning to the Tales will appreciate the chapters' fresh engagement with the individual tales and their often complicated critical histories, inflected in recent decades by critical approaches attentive to issues of gender, sexuality, class, and language.

Annotated Chaucer bibliography

Author : Mark Allen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784996459
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Annotated Chaucer bibliography written by Mark Allen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and 2010

Chaucer's Early Modern Readers

Author : Devani Singh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009231103
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Early Modern Readers written by Devani Singh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first extended study of the reception of Chaucer's medieval manuscripts in the early modern period, this book focuses chiefly on fifteenth-century manuscripts and discusses how these volumes were read, used, valued, and transformed in an age of the poet's prominence in print. Each chapter argues that patterns in the material interventions made by readers in their manuscripts – correcting, completing, supplementing, and authorising – reflect conventions which circulated in print, and convey prevailing preoccupations about Chaucer in the period: the antiquity and accuracy of his words, the completeness of individual texts and of the canon, and the figure of the author himself. This unexpected and compelling evidence of the interactions between fifteenth-century manuscripts and their early modern analogues asserts print's role in sustaining manuscript culture and thus offers fresh scholarly perspectives to medievalists, early modernists, and historians of the book. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England

Author : Margaret Connolly
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184384575X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England written by Margaret Connolly and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.

Geoffrey Chaucer in Context

Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107035643
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Geoffrey Chaucer in Context written by Ian Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.

The Oxford History of Poetry in English

Author : Helen Cooper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192886738
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of Poetry in English written by Helen Cooper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes. This volume occupies both a foundational and a revolutionary place. Its opening date--1100--marks the re-emergence of a vernacular poetic record in English after the political and cultural disruption of the Norman Conquest. By its end date--1400--English poetry had become an established, if still evolving, literary tradition. The period between these dates sees major innovations and developments in language, topics, poetic forms, and means of expression. Middle English poetry reflects the influence of multiple contexts--history, social institutions, manuscript production, old and new models of versification, medieval poetic theory, and the other literary languages of England. It thus emphasizes the aesthetic, imaginative treatment of new and received materials by medieval writers and the formal craft required for their verse. Individual chapters treat the representation of national history and mythology, contemporary issues, and the shared doctrine and learning provided by sacred and secular sources, including the Bible. Throughout the period, lyric and romance figure prominently as genres and poetic modes, while some works hover enticingly on the boundary of genre and discursive forms. The volume ends with chapters on the major writers of the late fourteenth-century (Langland, the Gawain-poet, Chaucer, and Gower) and with a look forward to the reception of something like a national literary tradition in fifteenth-century literary culture.

Instructional Writing in English, 1350-1650

Author : Carrie Griffin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317115686
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Instructional Writing in English, 1350-1650 written by Carrie Griffin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the nature of utilitarian texts in English transmitted from the later Middle Ages to c. 1650, this volume considers textual and material strategies for the presentation and organisation of written knowledge and information during the period. In particular, it investigates the relationship between genre and material form in Anglophone written knowledge and information, with specific reference to that which is usually classified as practical or 'utilitarian'. Carrie Griffin examines textual and material evidence to argue for the disentangling of hitherto mixed genres and forms, and the creation of 'new' texts, as unexplored effects of the arrival of the printing press in the late fifteenth century. Griffin interrogates the texts at the level of generic markers, frameworks and structures, and studies transmission and dissemination in print, the nature of and attitudes to printed books, and the audiences they reached, in order to determine shifting attitudes to books and texts. Learning and Information from Manuscript to Print makes a significant contribution to the study of so-called non-literary textual genres and their transmission, circulation and reception in manuscript and in early modern printed books.

Charles D'Orléans' English Aesthetic

Author : R. D. Perry
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845679
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Charles D'Orléans' English Aesthetic written by R. D. Perry and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New investigations into Charles d'Orléans' under-rated poem, its properties and its qualities.

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer

Author : Craig E. Bertolet
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040120644
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer written by Craig E. Bertolet and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-02 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) in a global context. This volume is an ideal starting point for beginners, offering contemporary perspectives to Chaucer both geographically and intellectually, including: • Exploration of major and lesser-known works, translations, and lyrics, such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde • Spatial intersections and external forms of communication • Discussion of identities, cognitions, and patterns of thought, including gender, race, disability, science, and nature. The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer also includes a section addressing ways of incorporating its material in the classroom to integrate global questions in the teaching of Chaucer’s works. This guide provides post-pandemic, twenty-first century readers a way to teach, learn, and write about Chaucer’s works complete with awareness of their reach, their limitations, and occlusions on a global field of culture.

The Middle English Book

Author : Michael Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192871773
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Middle English Book written by Michael Johnston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle English Book analyzes 202 literary manuscripts from late medieval England (1350-1500) and argues that most readers looked to scribes in their immediate vicinity to acquire copies of literature. It examines various forms of writing practiced by scribes throughout the late medieval English countryside and shows that the production of documents underscored the wide availability of literary copying. As a result, when a reader acquired a manuscript,they were most often tapping into local networks of document production.

Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis

Author : Joel Fredell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031279646
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis written by Joel Fredell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio’s material history and offers a major revision to a century’s old narrative of political revision and conversion around the trauma of 1400. Joel Fredell argues for “late stage” revisions by Gower to his great poem in Middle English from the late 1390s up to Gower’s death in 1408. This approach, new to scholarship for Ricardian and Lancastrian literature, demands profound re-evaluation of Gower's poetic persona and its entanglement in the opening and closing books of the Confessio. It offers a reassessment of the political and literary relationships between versions dedicated to Richard II and Henry IV. It repositions Gower's laureate status in a London world of deluxe book production that created a canon of Ricardian poets linked to their fifteenth-century inheritors. Finally, it identifies for the first time how late medieval authors designed their poetry as fictional artifacts that witness history from quasi-chronicles like Maidstone’s Concordia or Richard the Redeless, quasi-petitions like the Lollard “Petition to the King and Parliament,” quasi-epistles that begin so many texts, quasi-transcripts such as the Record and Process of the Deposition of Richard II, and so on.

Scribal Correction and Literary Craft

Author : Daniel Wakelin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316062120
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Scribal Correction and Literary Craft written by Daniel Wakelin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Two Middle English Prayer Cycles

Author : Ben Parsons
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580446833
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Two Middle English Prayer Cycles written by Ben Parsons and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first critical edition of two fascinating but overlooked devotional texts. Each shines its own light on medieval faith. The Holkham Prayers and Meditations (ca.1410) is a rare example of female authorship, written by an unnamed woman to guide a "religious sustir." Simon Appulby's Fruyte of Redempcyon (1514) is more popular in aim, composed by one of England's last anchorites to serve his urban community. Both texts are accompanied by extensive notes and introductory essays to aid students and specialists alike.

What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric?

Author : Cristina Maria Cervone
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812298519
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? written by Cristina Maria Cervone and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries. The chapters draw on perspectives from varied disciplines, including literary criticism, musicology, art history, and cognitive science. Since the early 1900s, the poems have been categorized as “lyrics,” the term now used for most kinds of short poetry, yet neither the difficulties nor the promise of this treatment have received enough attention. In one way, the book argues, considering these poems to be lyrics obscures much of what is interesting about them. Since the nineteenth century, lyrics have been thought of as subjective and best read without reference to cultural context, yet nonetheless they are taken to form a distinct literary tradition. Since Middle English short poems are often communal and usually spoken, sung, and/or danced, this lyric template is not a good fit. In another way, however, the very differences between these poems and the later ones on which current debates about the lyric still focus suggest they have much to offer those debates, and vice versa. As its title suggests, this book thus goes back to the basics, asking fundamental questions about what these poems are, how they function formally and culturally, how they are (and are not) related to other bodies of short poetry, and how they might illuminate and be illuminated by contemporary lyric scholarship. Eleven chapters by medievalists and two responses by modernists, all in careful conversation with one another, reflect on these questions and suggest very different answers. The editors’ introduction synthesizes these answers by suggesting that these poems can most usefully be read as a kind of “play,” in several senses of that word. The book ends with eight “new Middle English lyrics” by seven contemporary poets.

The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales

Author : Charles Abraham Owen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859913348
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales written by Charles Abraham Owen and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1991 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen investigates what the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales reveal about the way they came into being. [see revs] This study of the manuscripts of the Canterbury Talescalls into question previous efforts to explain the complexities, the different orderings of the tales and the extraordinary shifts in textual affiliations within the manuscripts. Owen sees the manuscripts that survive, most of them collections of all or almost all the tales, as derived from the large number of single tales and small collections that circulated after Chaucer's death. This theory takes issue with all modern editions of the Canterbury Tales, which in Owen's view reflect the effort of medieval scribes and supervisors to make a satisfactory book of the collection of fragments Chaucer left behind. It is this collection of fragments, the authentic Tales of Canterbury by Geoffrey Chaucer, which reflects the different stages of the plan that was still evolving at his death. CHARLES A. OWEN Jr is former Professor of English and Chairman of Medieval Studies at the University of Conneticut.

A Digital Catalogue of the Pre-1500 Manuscripts and Incunables of the Canterbury Tales

Author : Daniel W. Mosser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904628149
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book A Digital Catalogue of the Pre-1500 Manuscripts and Incunables of the Canterbury Tales written by Daniel W. Mosser and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This CD-ROM contains descriptions of every surviving pre-1500 manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, and of individual copies of the four incunable editions. This catalogue is based on inspection of every manuscript, of all relatively complete print editions, and many of the fragmentary (single-leaf) print copies. Every manuscript description is accompanied by images of the manuscript, many as high-resolution digital photographs freshly taken for this catalogue. Each description gives a full account of the manuscript's contents, hands, language, copying progress and provenance. For paper copies, every watermark is identified and most are dated, many with images. Accompanying articles discuss lost manuscripts and individual scribes (notably Adam Pynkhurst, perhaps Chaucer's "Adam scriveyn"). Daniel W. Mosser teaches at Virginia Tech.