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