Pursuing History - Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts (Hardcover)

This volume argues, through a series of selected local studies, for the importance of "textual criticism" as a fundamental act of historical interpretation and recovery, pointing out the need for attention to the physical bearers of our knowledge of the English Middle Ages, the books themselves, and the ignored and alienating features of manuscript culture. It examines medieval book production, the textual uses of manuscripts, the nature of medieval meditations, and looks in detail at work by Chaucer and Langland. In conclusion the volume considers the problem of textual annotation in the light of both history and literary theory.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
Release date:	August 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	Ralph Hanna
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	376
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-2613-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	0-8047-2613-2
Barcode:	9780804726139

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