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Print Culture and the Medieval Author - Chaucer, Lydgate, and Their Books 1473-1557 (Hardcover)
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Print Culture and the Medieval Author - Chaucer, Lydgate, and Their Books 1473-1557 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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Print Culture and the Medieval Author is a book about books.
Examining hundreds of early printed books and their late medieval
analogues, Alexandra Gillespie writes a bibliographical history of
the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his follower John Lydgate in the
century after the arrival of printing in England. Her study is an
important new contribution to the emerging 'sociology of the text'
in English literary and historical studies. At the centre of this
study is a familiar question: what is an author? The idea of the
vernacular writer was already contested and unstable in medieval
England; Gillespie demonstrates that in the late Middle Ages it was
also a way for book producers and readers to mediate the risks -
commercial, political, religious, and imaginative - involved in the
publication of literary texts. Gillespie's discussion focuses on
the changes associated with the shift to print, scribal precedents
for these changes, and contemporary understanding of them. The
treatment of texts associated with Chaucer and Lydgate is an index
to the sometimes flexible, sometimes resistant responses of book
printers, copyists, decorators, distributors, patrons, censors,
owners, and readers to a gradual but profoundly influential
bibliographical transition. The research is conducted across
somewhat intractable boundaries. Gillespie writes about medieval
and modern history; about manuscript and print; about canonical and
marginal authors; about literary works and books as objects. In the
process, she finds new meanings for some medieval vernacular texts
and a new place for some old books in a history of English culture.
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