In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica
Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript culture
that uses the artifacts themselves to open some of the most vital
theoretical questions in medieval literary studies. With nearly 200
illustrations, many of them in color, the book offers both a broad
survey of the physical forms and cultural histories of manuscripts
and a dozen case studies of particularly significant literary
witnesses, including the Beowulf manuscript, the St. Albans
Psalter, the Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, and The
Book of Margery Kempe. Practical discussions of parchment, scripts,
decoration, illustration, and bindings mix with consideration of
such conceptual categories as ownership, authorship, language,
miscellaneity, geography, writing, editing, mediation,
illustration, and performance-as well as of the status of the
literary itself. Each case study includes an essay orienting the
reader to particularly productive categories of analysis and a
selected bibliography for further research. Because a high-quality
digital surrogate exists for each of the selected manuscripts,
fully and freely available online, readers can gain access to the
artifacts in their entirety, enabling further individual
exploration and facilitating the book's classroom use. Medieval
English Manuscripts and Literary Forms aims to inspire a broad
group of readers with some of the excitement of literary manuscript
studies in the twenty-first century. The interpretative frameworks
surrounding each object will assist everyone in thinking through
the implications of manuscript culture more generally, not only for
the deeper study of the literature of the Middle Ages, but also for
a better understanding of book cultures of any era, including our
own.
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