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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 on topics of literary interest crossing the boundaries
between the medieval and early modern period. The borderline
between the periods commonly termed "medieval" and "Renaissance",
or "medieval" and "early modern", is one of the most hotly,
energetically and productively contested faultlines in literary
history studies. The essays presented in this volume both build
upon and respond to the work of Professor Helen Cooper, a scholar
who has long been committed to exploring the complex connections
and interactions between medieval and Renaissance literature. The
contributors re-examine a range of ideas, authors and genres
addressed in her work, including pastoral, chivalric romance, early
English drama, and the writings of Chaucer, Langland, Spenser and
Shakespeare. As a whole, thevolume aims to stimulate active debates
on the ways in which Renaissance writers used, adapted, and
remembered aspects of the medieval. Andrew King is Lecturer in
Medieval and Renaissance Literature at University College, Cork;
Matthew Woodcock is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance
Literature at the University of East Anglia. Contributors: Joyce
Boro, Aisling Byrne, Nandini Das, Mary C. Flannery, Alexandra
Gillespie, AndrewKing, Megan G. Leitch, R.W. Maslen, Jason Powell,
Helen Vincent, James Wade, Matthew Woodcock
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
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
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
Scholarly articles and reviews on the period of transition from
manuscript to print; includes books reviews, notes on special
collections, images.
This collection is founded on the premise that the physical book is
far from exhausted as informational medium, art object, or
conceptual resource. The contributors to The Unfinished Book
identify the many ways in which study of books - of their
compounding of matter and meaning, of their global travels and
historical transitions, of their shaping of and by new media
technologies - remains unfinished business for humanist scholarship
generally, and literary studies in particular. The collection's 32
chapters demonstrate in tandem how much book history has to gain in
turn from engaging the most vital and innovative literary-critical
modes of the 21st-century. Book studies thus intersects here with
scholarship on empire, the environment, disability, and affect, as
well as with work in African-American and Indigenous studies.
Literary study is uniquely positioned, this collection asserts, to
honour books' distinctive ways of both meaning things and being
things. The chapters span a terrain that extends from the earliest
surviving writings of the Indus Valley to Cicero's 1st-century
B.C.E. library to the latest videogames. Some model new ways of
thinking about the form, edges, and boundaries of the book as they
demonstrate how seldom the book's history as a material object is
terminated at the moment of its manufacture. Other chapters
highlight the provisionality that makes the book's conceptual
boundaries fuzzy, unfinished, and variable; many seek to overturn
triumphalist histories that recount the story of the book as though
it were Western and white. Overall, this collection launches a new
generation of scholarship as it introduces provocative new
approaches about the nature, place, and time of books.
Between roughly 1350 and 1500, the English vernacular became
established as a language of literary, bureaucratic, devotional and
controversial writing; metropolitan artisans formed guilds for the
production and sale of books for the first time; and Gutenberg's
and eventually Caxton's printed books reached their first English
consumers. This book gathers the best work on manuscript books in
England made during this crucial but neglected period. Its authors
survey existing research, gather intensive new evidence and develop
new approaches to key topics. The chapters cover the material
conditions and economy of the book trade; amateur production both
lay and religious; the effects of censorship; and the impact on
English book production of manuscripts and artisans from elsewhere
in the British Isles and Europe. A wide-ranging and innovative
series of essays, this volume is a major contribution to the
history of the book in medieval England.
Between roughly 1350 and 1500, the English vernacular became
established as a language of literary, bureaucratic, devotional and
controversial writing; metropolitan artisans formed guilds for the
production and sale of books for the first time; and Gutenberg's
and eventually Caxton's printed books reached their first English
consumers. This book gathers the best new work on manuscript books
in England made during this crucial but neglected period. Its
authors survey existing research, gather intensive new evidence and
develop new approaches to key topics. The chapters cover the
material conditions and economy of the book trade; amateur
production both lay and religious; the effects of censorship; and
the impact on English book production of manuscripts and artisans
from elsewhere in the British Isles and Europe. A wide-ranging and
innovative series of essays, this volume is a major contribution to
the history of the book in medieval England.
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