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Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England - Making English Literary Manuscripts, 1400-1500 (Hardcover)
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Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England - Making English Literary Manuscripts, 1400-1500 (Hardcover)
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Daniel Wakelin introduces and reinterprets the misunderstood and
overlooked craft practices, cultural conventions and literary
attitudes involved in making some of the most important manuscripts
in late medieval English literature. In doing so he overturns how
we view the role of scribes, showing how they ignored or concealed
irregular and damaged parchment; ruled pages from habit and
convention more than necessity; decorated the division of the text
into pages or worried that it would harm reading; abandoned
annotations to poetry, focusing on the poem itself; and copied
English poems meticulously, in reverence for an abstract idea of
the text. Scribes' interest in immaterial ideas and texts suggests
their subtle thinking as craftspeople, in ways that contrast and
extend current interpretations of late medieval literary culture,
'material texts' and the power of materials. For students,
researchers and librarians, this book offers revelatory
perspectives on the activities of late medieval scribes.
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