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Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England (Hardcover, New)
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Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England (Hardcover, New)
Series: Manuscript Culture in the British Isles
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New essays on late medieval manuscripts highlight the complicated
network of their production and dissemination. One of the most
important developments in medieval English literary studies since
the 1980s has been the growth of manuscript studies. Long regarded
as mere textual repositories, and treated superficially by editors,
manuscripts are now acknowledged as centrally important in the
study of later medieval texts. The essays collected here discuss
aspects of the design and distribution of manuscripts in late
medieval England, with a particular focus on vernacular manuscripts
of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
Those in the first half consider material evidence for scribal
decisions about design: these range from analysis of individual
codices to broader discussions of particular types of manuscripts,
both religious and secular. Later essays look at the evidence for
the production and distribution of manuscripts of specific English
texts or types of text. These include the major Middle English
poems The Canterbury Tales and Piers Plowman, as well as key
religious works such as Love's Mirror, Hilton's Scale of
Perfection, the Speculum Vitae and The Pricke of Conscience, all of
which survive in significant numbers of manuscripts. The comparison
of secular and devotional texts illuminates shared networks of
production and dissemination, and increases our knowledge of
regional and metropolitan book production in the period before
printing. Contributors: DANIEL W. MOSSER, JACOB THAISEN, TAKAKO
KATO, SHERRY L. REAMES, AMELIA GROUNDS, ALEXANDRA BARRATT, JULIAN
M. LUXFORD, LINNE R. MOONEY, MICHAEL G. SARGENT, JOHNJ. THOMPSON,
MARGARET CONNOLLY, RALPH HANNA, GEORGE R. KEISER.
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