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Chaucer's Scribes - London Textual Production, 1384-1432 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,515
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Chaucer's Scribes - London Textual Production, 1384-1432 (Hardcover): Lawrence Warner

Chaucer's Scribes - London Textual Production, 1384-1432 (Hardcover)

Lawrence Warner

Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

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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.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Release date: September 2018
Authors: Lawrence Warner
Dimensions: 234 x 159 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-42627-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
LSN: 1-108-42627-1
Barcode: 9781108426275

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