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New research into medieval English literature, with a particular
focus on manuscripts and writing. This acclaimed study of English
medieval manuscripts and early printed books - many items from
Professor Takamiya's own collection - quickly sold out in
hardcover. The subjects range from Saint Jerome to Tolkien, with
particular concentrations on Chaucer, Gower, Malory and religious
and historical writings of the late middle ages. There are essays
examining the work of early printers such as Caxton and de Worde,
and of bibliophiles and antiquarians in modern times. Befitting a
tribute to a bibliophile, this volume has been handsomely designed
by Lida Kindersley of the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop in Cambridge,
and is extensively illustrated. The volume as a whole constitutes a
substantial body of research on medieval English literature, and
early books and manuscripts. Contributors: Richard Barber, Nicolas
Barker, Richard Beadle, N.F. Blake, Julia Boffey, Piero Boitani,
Derek Brewer, Helen Cooper, A.I. Doyle, Martha W. Driver, A.S.G.
Edwards, P.J.C. Field, Christopher de Hamel, Ralph Hanna, Lotte
Hellinga, Kristian Jensen, Edward Donald Kennedy, Richard A.
Linenthal, Jill Mann, Takami Matsuda, David McKitterick, Rosamond
McKitterick, Linne R. Mooney, Ruth Morse, Daniel W. Mosser,
Tsuyoshi Mukai, Paul Needham, M.B. Parkes, Derek Pearsall, Oliver
Pickering, P.R. Robinson, Michael G. Sargent, John Scahill,
Kathleen L. Scott, Jeremy J. Smith, Isamu Takahashi, John J.
Thompson, Linda Ehrsam Voigts, Yoko Wada, Bonnie Wheeler, Patrick
Zutshi.
New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for
understanding Chaucer's poetry. Chaucer never went to Bohemia but
Bohemia came to him when, in 1382, King Richard II of England
married Anne, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV.
Charles's splendid court in Prague was renowned across Europe for
its patronage of literature, art and architecture, and Anne and her
entourage brought with them some of its glamour and allure - their
fashions, extravagance and behaviour provoking comment from English
chroniclers. For Chaucer, a poet and diplomat affiliated to
Richard's court, Anne was more muse than patron, her influence
embedded in a range of his works, including the Parliament of
Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women and
Canterbury Tales. This volume shows Bohemia to be a key European
context, alongside France and Italy, for understanding Chaucer's
poetry, providing a wide perspective on the nature of cultural
exchange between England and Bohemia in the later fourteenth
century. The contributors consider such matters as court culture
and politics, the writings of Richard Rolle, artistic style, Troy
stories, historiographic writing and travel narrative; they
highlight the debt Chaucer owed to Bohemian culture, and the
affinities between English and Bohemian literary production,
whether in the use of Petrarch's tale of Griselde, the iconography
of the tapster figure, or satires on the Passion of Christ.
Originally published in 1981, Middle English Prose is an edited
collection providing an index of research and scholarship on Middle
English prose. The book is split into specific thematic areas of
scholarship covering such areas as editorial technique and middle
English mystical prose, as well as focusing more in detail on
specific prose such as Nicholas Love's Myrrour of the Blessed Lyf
of Jesu Christ. Each chapter contains a collection of useful
sources and an editorial analysis and description on each source.
Even today, this will provide a useful and valuable resource for
researchers of the medieval period.
Introduces Skelton and his work to readers unfamiliar with the
poet, gathers together the vibrant strands of existing research,
and opens up new avenues for future studies. John Skelton is a
central literary figure and the leading poet during the first
thirty years of Tudor rule. Nevertheless, he remains challenging
and even contradictory for modern audiences. This book aims to
provide an authoritative guide to this complex poet and his works,
setting him in his historical, religious, and social contexts.
Beginning with an exploration of his life and career, it goes on to
cover all the major aspects of his poetry, from the literary
traditions in which he wrote and the form of his compositions to
the manuscript contexts and later reception. SEBASTIAN SOBECKI is
Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the
University of Groningen; JOHN SCATTERGOOD is Professor (Emeritus)
of Medieval and Renaissance English at Trinity College, Dublin.
Contributors: Tom Betteridge, Julia Boffey, John Burrow, David
Carlson, Helen Cooper, Elisabeth Dutton,A.S.G. Edwards, Jane
Griffiths, Nadine Kuipers, Carol Meale, John Scattergood, Sebastian
Sobecki, Greg Waite
New essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and
texts. The dynamic fields of the history of the book and the
sociology of the text are the areas this volume investigates,
bringing together ten specially commissioned essays that between
them demonstrate a range of critical and materialapproaches to
medieval, early modern, and digital books and texts. They
scrutinize individual medieval manuscripts to illustrate how
careful re-reading of evidence permits a more nuanced apprehension
of production, and receptionacross time; analyse metaphor for our
understanding of the Byzantine book; examine the materiality of
textuality from Beowulf to Pepys and the digital work in the
twenty-first century; place manuscripts back into specific
historical context; and re-appraise scholarly interpretation of
significant periods of manuscript and print production in the later
medieval and early modern periods. All of these essays call for a
new assessment of the ways in which we read books and texts, making
a major contribution to book history, and illustrating how detailed
focus on individual cases can yield important new findings.
Contributors: Elaine Treharne, Erika Corradini, Julia Crick,
Orietta Da Rold, A.S.G. Edwards, Martin K. Foys, Whitney Anne
Trettien, David L. Gants, Ralph Hanna, Robert Romanchuk, Margaret
M. Smith, Liberty Stanavage.
First entire collection centred on Chaucer's Book of the Duchess,
making a compelling case for its importance and value. The Book of
the Duchess, Chaucer's first major poem, is foundational for our
understanding of Chaucer's literary achievements in relation to
late-medieval English textual production; yet in comparison with
other works, itstreatment has been somewhat peripheral in previous
criticism. This volume, the first full-length collection devoted to
the Book, argues powerfully against the prevalent view that it is
an underdeveloped or uneven early work, and instead positions it as
a nuanced literary and intellectual effort in its own right, one
that deserves fuller integration with twenty-first-century Chaucer
studies. The essays within it pursue lingering questions as well as
new frontiers in research, including the poem's literary
relationships in the sphere of French and English writing, material
processes of transmission and compilation, and patterns of
reception. Each chapter advances an original reading of the Book of
the Duchess that uncovers new aspects of its internal dynamics or
of its literary or intellectual contexts. As a whole, the volume
reveals the poem's mobility and elasticity within an increasingly
international sphere of cultural discourse that thrives on dynamic
exchange and encourages sophisticated reflection on authorial
practice. Jamie C. Fumo is Professor of English at Florida State
University. Contributors: B.S.W. Barootes, Julia Boffey, Ardis
Butterfield, Rebecca Davis, A.S.G. Edwards, Jeff Espie, Philip
Knox, Helen Phillips, Elizaveta Strakhov, Sara Sturm-Maddox, Marion
Wells.
Originally published in 1981, Middle English Prose is an edited
collection providing an index of research and scholarship on Middle
English prose. The book is split into specific thematic areas of
scholarship covering such areas as editorial technique and middle
English mystical prose, as well as focusing more in detail on
specific prose such as Nicholas Love's Myrrour of the Blessed Lyf
of Jesu Christ. Each chapter contains a collection of useful
sources and an editorial analysis and description on each source.
Even today, this will provide a useful and valuable resource for
researchers of the medieval period.
Essays on the medieval chronicle tradition, shedding light on
history writing, manuscript studies and the history of the book,
and the post-medieval reception of such texts. The histories of
chronicles composed in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries and onwards, with a focus on texts belonging to or
engaging with the Prose Brut tradition, are the focus of this
volume. The contributors examine the composition, dissemination and
reception of historical texts written in Anglo-Norman, Latin and
English, including the Prose Brut chronicle (c. 1300 and later),
Castleford's Chronicle (c. 1327),and Nicholas Trevet's Les
Cronicles (c. 1334), looking at questions of the processes of
writing, rewriting, printing and editing history. They cross
traditional boundaries of subject and period, taking
multi-disciplinary approaches to their studies in order to
underscore the (shifting) historical, social and political contexts
in which medieval English chronicles were used and read from the
fourteenth century through to the present day. As such, the volume
honours the pioneering work of the late Professor Lister M.
Matheson, whose research in this area demonstrated that a full
understanding of medieval historical literature demands attention
to both the content of theworks in question and to the material
circumstances of producing those works. JACLYN RAJSIC is a Lecturer
in Medieval Literature in the School of English and Drama at Queen
Mary University of London; ERIK KOOPER taughtOld and Middle English
at Utrecht University until his retirement in 2007; DOMINIQUE HOCHE
Is an Associate Professor at West Liberty University in West
Virginia. Contributors: Elizabeth J. Bryan, Caroline D.
Eckhardt,A.S.G. Edwards, Dan Embree, Alexander L. Kaufman, Edward
Donald Kennedy, Erik Kooper, Julia Marvin, William Marx, Krista A.
Murchison, Heather Pagan, Jaclyn Rajsic, Christine M. Rose, Neil
Weijer
The questions of fame and reputation are central to Chaucer's
writings; the essays here discuss their various treatments and
manifestations. Fama, or fame, is a central concern of late
medieval literature: where fame came from, who deserved it, whether
it was desirable and how it was acquired and kept. An interest in
fame was not new but was renewed and rethought within the
vernacular revolutions of the later Middle Ages. The work of
Geoffrey Chaucer collates received ideas on the subject of fama,
both from the classical world and from the work of his
contemporaries. Chaucer's place in these intertextual negotiations
was readily recognized in his aftermath, as later writers adopted
and reworked postures which Chaucer had struck, in their own bids
for literary authority. This volume tracks debates onfama which
were past, present and future to Chaucer, using his work as a
centre point to investigate canon formation in European literature
from the late Middle Ages and into the Early Modern period. Isabel
Davis is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Birkbeck,
University of London; Catherine Nall is Senior Lecturer in Medieval
Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Contributors:
Joanna Bellis, Alcuin Blamires, Julia Boffey, Isabel Davis,
Stephanie Downes, A.S.G. Edwards, Jamie C. Fumo, Andrew Galloway,
Nick Havely, Thomas A. Prendergast, Mike Rodman Jones, William T.
Rossiter, Elizaveta Strakhov.
Two crucial genres of medieval literature are studied in this
outstanding collection. The essays in this volume honour the
distinguished career of Professor Elizabeth Archibald. They explore
two areas that her scholarship has done so much to illuminate:
medieval romance, and Arthurian literature. Several chapters
examine individual romances, including Emare, Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight and the Roman de Silence. Others focus on wider
concerns in romances and related works in Middle English, Latin,
French, German and Icelandic, from a variety of perspectives. Later
chapters consider Arthurian material, with a particular emphasis on
hitherto unexamined aspects of Malory's Morte Darthur. It thus,
fittingly, reflects the range of linguistic and literary expertise
that Professor Archibald has brought to these fields.
Essays shedding fresh and significant light on Gower's poetry,
major and minor, as it was received, read, and re-produced in
England and in Iberia from the fourteenth to the twentieth
centuries. John Gower's great poem, the Confessio Amantis, was the
first work of English literature translated into any European
language. Occasioned by the existence in Spain of fifteenth-century
Portuguese and Spanish manuscripts ofthe Confessio, the nineteen
essays brought together here represent new and original approaches
to Gower's role in Anglo-Iberian literary relations. They include
major studies of the palaeography of the Iberian manuscripts;of the
ownership history of the Portuguese Confessio manuscript; of the
glosses of Gowerian manuscripts; and of the manuscript of the Yale
Confessio Amantis. Other essays situate the translations amidst
Anglo-Spanish relations generally in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries; examine possible Spanish influences on Gower's writing;
and speculate on possible providers of the Confessio to Philippa,
daughter of John of Gaunt and queenof Portugal. Further chapters
broaden the scope of the volume. Amongst other topics, they look at
Gower's use of Virgilian/Dantean models; classical gestures in the
Castilian translation; Gower's conscious contrasting of epic ideals
and courtly romance; nuances of material goods and the idea of "the
good" in the Confessio; Marxian aesthetics, Balzac, and Gowerian
narrative in late medieval trading culture between England and
Iberia; reading the Confessio through the lens of gift exchange;
literary form in Gower's later Latin poems; Gower and Alain
Chartier as international initiators of a new "public poetry"; and
the modern sales history of manuscript and earlyprinted copies of
the Confessio, and what it reveals about literary trends. Ana Saez
Hidalgo is Associate Professor at the University of Valladolid,
Spain; R.F. Yeager is Professor of English and World Languagesand
chair of the department at the University of West Florida.
Contributors: Maria Bullon-Fernandez, David R. Carlson, Sian
Echard, A.S.G. Edwards, Robert R. Edwards, Tiago Viula de Faria,
Andrew Galloway, Fernando Galvan, Marta Maria Gutierrez Rodriguez,
Mauricio Herrero Jimenez, Ethan Knapp, Roger A. Ladd, Alberto
Lazaro, Maria Luisa Lopez-Vidriero Abello, Matthew McCabe, Alastair
J. Minnis, Clara Pascual-Argente, Tamara Para A. Shailor, Winthrop
Wetherbee
Survey of and guide to all the major authors and genres in Middle
English prose. The essays in this volume provide an up-to-date and
authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and
genres. Each chapter is written by a leading authority on the
subject and offers a succinct account of all relevant literary,
history and cultural factors that need to considered, together with
bibliographical references. Authors examined include the writers of
the Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group and the Wohunge Group;
Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; Nicholas Love; Julian of Norwich;
Margery Kempe; "Sir John Mandeville"; John Trevisa, Reginald
Pecock; and John Fortescue. Genres discussed include romances,
saints' lives, letters, sermon literature, historicalprose,
anonymous devotional writings, Wycliffite prose, and various forms
of technical writing. The final chapter examines the treatment of
Middle English prose in the first age of print. Contributors: BELLA
MILLETT, RALPH HANNA III, AD PUTTER, KANTIK GHOSH, BARRY A.
WINDEATT, A.C. SPEARING, IAN HIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, VINCENT
GILLESPIE, HELEN L. SPENCER, ALFRED HIATT, FIONA SOMERSET, HELEN
COOPER, GEORGE KEISER, OLIVER S. PICKERING, JAMES SIMPSON, RICHARD
BEADLE, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE.
Essays considering the relationship between Gower's texts and the
physical ways in which they were first manifested. The media in
which Gower's works were first transmitted, whether in print of
manuscript form, are of vital importance to an understanding of
both the poet and his audience. However, in comparison with those
of his contemporary Chaucer, they have been relatively little
studied. This volume represents a major collaboration between
specialist scholars in manuscript and book history, and experts in
Gower more generally, breaking new ground in approaching Gower
through first-hand study of his publications in manuscript and
print. Its chapters consider such matters as manuscript and book
illumination, provenance, variant texts and editions, scribes, and
printers, looking at how, and to what degree, the materiality of
the vellum, paper, ink and binding illuminates - and even
implicates - the poet and his poetry. MARTHA DRIVER is
Distinguished Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies
at Pace University; the late DEREK PEARSALL was Gurney Professor of
English Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University; R.F. YEAGER Is
Professor of English and Foreign Languages, Emeritus, University of
West Florida. Contributors: Stephanie L. Batkie, Julia Boffey,
Margaret Connolly, Sian Echard, A.S.G. Edwards, Robert Epstein,
Brian W. Gastle, Amanda J. Gerber, Yoshiko Kobayashi, Aditi Nafde,
Tamara Perez-Fernandez, Wendy Scase, Karla Taylor, David Watt.
This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities
offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the
significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century
English poetry. This collection of seventeen original essays by
leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive
overview of the significant authors and important aspects of
fifteenth-century English poetry. The major poets of thecentury,
John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, receive detailed analysis,
alongside perhaps lesser-known authors: John Capgrave, Osbern
Bokenham, Peter Idley, George Ashby and John Audelay. In addition,
several essays examine genres and topics, including romance,
popular, historical and scientific poetry, and translations from
the classics. Other chapters investigate the crucial contexts for
approaching poetry of this period: manuscript circulation,
patronageand the influence of Chaucer. Julia Boffey is Professor of
Medieval Studies at Queen Mary, University of London; A.S.G.
Edwards is Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of
Kent. Contributors: Anthony Bale, Julia Boffey, A.S.G. Edwards,
Susanna Fein, Alfred Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Sarah James, Andrew
King, Sheila Lindenbaum, Joanna Martin, Carol Meale, Robert
Meyer-Lee, Ad Putter, John Scattergood, Anke Timmermann,
DanielWakelin, David Watt.
Created in London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh,
National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1) is of crucial
importance as the first book designed to convey in the English
language an ambitious range ofsecular romance and chronicle.
Evidently made in London by professional scribes for a secular
patron, this tantalizing volume embodies a massive amount of
material evidence as to London commercial book production and the
demand for vernacular texts in the early fourteenth century. But
its origins are mysterious: who were its makers? its users? how was
it made? what end did it serve? The essays in this collection
define the parameters of present-day Auchinleck studies. They
scrutinize the manuscript's rich and varied contents; reopen
theories and controversies regarding the book's making; trace the
operations and interworkings of the scribes, compiler, and
illuminators; teaseout matters of patron and audience; interpret
the contested signs of linguistic and national identity; and assess
Auchinleck's implied literary values beside those of Chaucer.
Geography, politics, international relations and multilingualism
become pressing subjects, too, alongside critical analyses of
literary substance. SUSANNA FEIN is Professor of English at Kent
State University and editor of The Chaucer Review. Contributors:
Venetia Bridges, Patrick Butler, Siobhain Bly Calkin, A. S. G.
Edwards, Ralph Hanna, Ann Higgins, Cathy Hume, Marisa Libbon, Derek
Pearsall, Helen Phillips, Emily Runde, Timothy A. Shonk, Miceal F.
Vaughan.
New approaches to the everlasting malleability and transformation
of medieval romance. The essays here reconsider the protean nature
of Middle English romance. The contributors examine both the
cultural unity of romance and its many variations, reiterations and
reimaginings, including its contexts and engagements with other
discourses and forms, as they were "rewritten" during the Middle
Ages and beyond. Ranging across popular, anonymous English and
courtly romances, and taking in the works of Chaucer and Arthurian
romance (rarely treated together), in connection with continental
sources and analogues, the chapters probe this fluid and creative
genre to ask just how comfortable, and how flexible, are its nature
and aims? How were Middle English romances rewritten toaccommodate
contemporary concerns and generic expectations? What can attention
to narrative techniques and conventional gestures reveal about the
reassurances romances offer, or the questions they ask? How do
romances' central concerns with secular ideals and conduct
intersect with spiritual priorities? And how are romances
transformed or received in later periods? The volume is also a
tribute to the significance and influence of the work of Professor
Helen Cooper on romance. Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of
English Studies at Durham University; Megan G. Leitch is Senior
Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University; Corinne
Saunders is Professor of English andCo-Director of the Centre for
Medical Humanities at Durham University. Contributors: Elizabeth
Archibald, Julia Boffey, Christopher Cannon, Neil Cartlidge, Miriam
Edlich-Muth, A.S.G. Edwards, Marcel Elias, Megan Leitch, Andrew
Lynch, Jill Mann, Marco Nievergelt, Ad Putter, Corinne Saunders,
Barry Windeatt, R.F. Yeager
First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early
printed book, and the issues associated with it. The history of the
book is now recognized as a field of central importance for
understanding the cultural changes that swept through Tudor
England. This companion aims to provide a comprehensive guide to
the issues relevant to theearly printed book, covering the
significant cultural, social and technological developments from
1476 (the introduction of printing to England) to 1558 (the death
of Mary Tudor). Divided into thematic sections (the printed
booktrade; the book as artefact; patrons, purchasers and producers;
and the cultural capital of print), it considers the social,
historical, and cultural context of the rise of print, with the
problems as well as advantages of the transmission from manuscript
to print. the printers of the period; the significant Latin trade
and its effect on the English market; paper, types, bindings, and
woodcuts and other decorative features which create the packaged
book; and the main sponsors and consumers of the printed book:
merchants, the lay clientele, secular and religious clergy, and the
two Universities, as well as secular colleges and chantries.
Further topics addressed include humanism, women translators, and
the role of censorship and the continuity of Catholic publishing
from that time. The book is completed with a chronology and
detailed indices. Vincent Gillespie is J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of
English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford; Susan
Powell held a Chair in Medieval Texts and Culture at the University
of Salford, and is currently affiliated to the Universities of
London and York. Contributors: Tamara Atkin, Alan Coates, Thomas
Betteridge, Julia Boffey, James Clark, A.S.G. Edwards, Martha W.
Driver, Mary Erler, Alexandra Gillespie, Vincent Gillespie, Andrew
Hope, Brenda Hosington, Susan Powell, Pamela Robinson, AnneF.
Sutton, Daniel Wakelin, James Willoughby, Lucy Wooding
`Provides an excellent one-volume guide to the works of the
anonymous Gawain-poet.' CHOICE The essays collected here on the
Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience, providing both
information and original analysis. Topics includetheories of
authorship; the historical and social background to the poems, with
individual sections on particularly important features within them;
gender roles in the poems; the manuscript itself; the metre,
vocabulary and dialect of the poems; and their sources. A section
devoted to Sir Gawain investigates the ideas of courtesy and
chivalry found within it, and explores some of its later
adaptations from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. Afull
bibliography completes the volume. The late DEREK BREWER was
Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge;
JONATHAN GIBSON has worked as a lecturer in the Universities of
Exeter and Durham.
Fresh and provocative approaches to the literature of the middle
ages, offering close readings of texts from Chaucer to Henryson,
and beast fable to devotional works. Jill Mann's writing, teaching,
and scholarship have transformed our understanding of two distinct
fields, medieval Latin and Middle English literature, as well as
their intersection. Essays in this volume seek to honour this
achievement by looking at entirely new aspects of these fields (the
relationship of song to affect, the political valence of classical
allusion, the Latin background of Middle English devotional texts).
Others look again at the literary kinds and ideas most important in
Mann's own work (beast fable, the nature of allegory, the nature of
"nature", the relationship of economic thought and literature,
satire, language as a subject for poetry) in the poets she hasbeen
most drawn to (Chaucer, Langland, Henryson). All of the essays
involve close readings of the most careful kind, taking as their
primary method Professor Mann's repeated injunction to attend,
above all, to the"words on the page". Christopher Cannon is
Professor of English, New York University; Maura Nolan is Associate
Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley.
Contributors: Siobhain Bly Calkin, Christopher Cannon,Rebecca
Davis, Peter Dronke, A.S.G. Edwards, Elizabeth B. Edwards, Maura
Nolan, Paul J. Patterson, Derek Pearsall, Ad Putter, Paul Gerhard
Schmidt, James Simpson, Barry Windeatt, Nicolette Zeeman
First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early
printed book, and the issues associated with it. The history of the
book is now recognized as a field of central importance for
understanding the cultural changes that swept through Tudor
England. This companion aims to provide a comprehensive guide to
the issues relevant to theearly printed book, covering the
significant cultural, social and technological developments from
1476 (the introduction of printing to England) to 1558 (the death
of Mary Tudor). Divided into thematic sections (the printed
booktrade; the book as artefact; patrons, purchasers and producers;
and the cultural capital of print), it considers the social,
historical, and cultural context of the rise of print, with the
problems as well as advantages of the transmission from manuscript
to print. the printers of the period; the significant Latin trade
and its effect on the English market; paper, types, bindings, and
woodcuts and other decorative features which create the packaged
book; and the main sponsors and consumers of the printed book:
merchants, the lay clientele, secular and religious clergy, and the
two Universities, as well as secular colleges and chantries.
Further topics addressed include humanism, women translators, and
the role of censorship and the continuity of Catholic publishing
from that time. The book is completed with a chronology and
detailed indices. VINCENT GILLESPIE is J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of
English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford; SUSAN
POWELL held a Chair in Medieval Texts and Culture at the University
of Salford, and is currently affiliated to the Universities of
London and York. Contributors: Tamara Atkin, Alan Coates, Thomas
Betteridge, Julia Boffey, James Clark, A.S.G. Edwards, Martha W.
Driver, Mary Erler, Alexandra Gillespie, Vincent Gillespie, Andrew
Hope, Brenda Hosington, Susan Powell, Pamela Robinson, AnneF.
Sutton, Daniel Wakelin, James Willoughby, Lucy Wooding
Essays on book history, manuscripts and reading during a period of
considerable change. The production, transmission, and reception of
texts from England and beyond during the late medieval and early
renaissance periods are the focus of this volume. Chapters consider
the archives and the material contexts in which texts were
produced, read, and re-read; the history of specific manuscripts
and early printed books; and some of the continuities and changes
in literary and book production, dissemination, and reception in
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Responding to Professor
Julia Boffey's pioneering work on medieval and early Tudor material
and literary culture, they cover a range of genres - from practical
texts written in Latin to works of Middle English poetryand prose,
both secular and religious - and examine an assortment of different
reading contexts: lay, devotional, local, regional, and national.
TAMARA ATKIN is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early
RenaissanceLiterature, and JACLYN RAJSIC is Lecturer in Medieval
Literature, at the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary
University of London. Contributors: Laura Ashe, Priscilla Bawcutt,
Martin Camargo, Margaret Connolly, Robert R. Edwards, A.S.G.
Edwards, Susanna Fein, Joel Grossman, Alfred Hiatt, Pamela M. King,
Matthew Payne, Derek Pearsall, Corinne Saunders, Barry Windeatt,
R.F. Yeager.
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Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical
approaches which establish the originality and interest of the
treatise. The thirteenth-century Ancrene Wisse is a guide for
female recluses. Addressed to three young sisters of gentle birth,
it teaches what truly good anchoresses should and should not do,
offering in its examples a glimpse of the real life women had in
England in the middle ages. It is also important for its evidence
for the continuation of the Anglo-Saxon tradition of prose writing,
being produced in the West Midlands where Old English writing
conventions continued to develop even after the Norman conquest.
The Companion addresses the cultural and historical background, the
affiliations of the versions, genre, authorship and language; the
various approaches also includea feminist reading of the text.
Contributors: ROGER DAHOOD, RICHARD DANCE, A.S.G. EDWARDS,
CATHERINE INNES-PARKER, BELLA MILLETT, CHRISTINA VON NOLCKEN,
ELIZABETH ROBERTSON, ANNE SAVAGE, D.A. TROTTER, YOKO WADA, NICHOLAS
WATSON.
The cult of St Edmund was one of the most important in medieval
England, and further afield, as the pieces here show. St Edmund,
king and martyr, supposedly killed by Danes (or "Vikings") in 869,
was one of the pre-eminent saints of the middle ages; his cult was
favoured and patronised by several English kings and spawned a rich
array of visual,literary, musical and political artefacts.
Celebrated throughout England, especially at the abbey of Bury St
Edmunds, it also inspired separate cults in France, Iceland and
Italy. The essays in this collection offer a range of readings from
a variety of disciplines - literature, history, music, art history
- and of sources - chronicles, poems, theological material -
providing an overview of the multi-faceted nature of St Edmund's
cult, from the ninthcentury to the early modern period. They
demonstrate the openness and dynamism of a medieval saint's cult,
showing how the saint's image could be used in many and changing
contexts: Edmund's image was bent to various political
andpropagandistic ends, often articulating conflicting messages and
ideals, negotiating identity, politics and belief. CONTRIBUTORS:
ANTHONY BALE, CARL PHELPSTEAD, ALISON FINLAY, PAUL ANTONY HAYWARD,
LISA COLTON, REBECCA PINNER, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE
Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief
compendiums of literature in the Middle English period. Created in
London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National
Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1) is of crucial importance
as the first book designed to convey in the English language an
ambitious range ofsecular romance and chronicle. Evidently made in
London by professional scribes for a secular patron, this
tantalizing volume embodies a massive amount of material evidence
as to London commercial book production and the demand for
vernacular texts in the early fourteenth century. But its origins
are mysterious: who were its makers? its users? how was it made?
what end did it serve? The essays in this collection define the
parameters of present-day Auchinleck studies. They scrutinize the
manuscript's rich and varied contents; reopen theories and
controversies regarding the book's making; trace the operations and
interworkings of the scribes, compiler, and illuminators; teaseout
matters of patron and audience; interpret the contested signs of
linguistic and national identity; and assess Auchinleck's implied
literary values beside those of Chaucer. Geography, politics,
international relations and multilingualism become pressing
subjects, too, alongside critical analyses of literary substance.
Susanna Fein is Professor of English at Kent State University and
editor of The Chaucer Review. Contributors: Venetia Bridges,
Patrick Butler, Siobhain Bly Calkin, A. S. G. Edwards, Ralph Hanna,
Ann Higgins, Cathy Hume, Marisa Libbon, Derek Pearsall, Helen
Phillips, Emily Runde, Timothy A. Shonk, Miceal F. Vaughan.
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