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Performing Manuscript Culture - Poetry, Materiality, and Authorship in Thomas Hoccleve's "Regement of Princes" (Hardcover)
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Performing Manuscript Culture - Poetry, Materiality, and Authorship in Thomas Hoccleve's "Regement of Princes" (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Medieval Philology
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This study conceives of Thomas Hoccleve's Regement of Princes
(1410-1413) as an essentially performative text, one that expresses
its awareness of the manuscript culture in which it is so firmly
rooted. The openness of manuscripts is a recurring subject in the
Regement and is not only expressed through mere descriptions of,
but through complex references to this manuscript context.
Performances of manuscript culture manifest themselves in several
aspects of the text. The first is the narrator persona, and
especially the question of how persona and text are intertwined.
The second is the constantly recurring interpretation of quotes
from authoritative sources that pervades the Regement. This urge to
interpret is expressed both in the tradition of adding marginal
glosses and in the process of subjecting the text to an exegetical
reading. The third aspect is the relation between text and images
in the Regement's manuscripts, which shows how mediality is
performed and how the manuscript context is made the focus of this
performance. In this monograph, all of these aspects are studied in
a mindset that combines the concept of performativity with the
postulations of Material Philology.
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