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Material on the production and transmission of medieval literature
and the early formation of the canon of English poetry. A wide
range of poets is covered - Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, the Gawain
poet, Langland, and Lydgate, along with the translator of
Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis. The Turnament of Totenham is
read in termsof theory of the carnivalesque and popular culture,
and major contributions are made to current linguistic, editorial
and codicological controversies. Going beyond the Middle Ages, the
book also considers the sixteenth-century reception of Chaucer's
Legend of Good Women and Post-Reformation reading of Lydgate. It is
essential reading for anyone interested in the production and
transmission of medieval literature, and in the early formation of
the canon of English poetry. Contributors: JULIA BOFFEY, J.A.
BURROW, CHRISTOPHER CANNON, MARTHA DRIVER, SIAN ECHARD, A.S.G.
EDWARDS, KATE D. HARRIS, S.S. HUSSEY, KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON, CAROL
M. MEALE, LINNE R. MOONEY, CHARLOTTE C. MORSE, V.I.J. SCATTERGOOD,
ELIZABETH SOLOPOVA, ESTELLE STUBBS, JOHN THOMPSON.
Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual
culture in all its variety. Linne R. Mooney, Emeritus Professor of
Palaeography at the University of York, has significantly advanced
the study of later medieval English book production, particularly
our knowledge of individual scribes; this collection honours her
distinguished scholarship and responds to her wide-ranging research
on Middle English manuscripts and texts. The thirteen essays
brought together here take a variety of approaches -
palaeographical, codicological, dialectal, textual, art historical
- to the study of the English medieval book and to the varied
environments (professional, administrative, mercantile,
ecclesiastical) where manuscripts were produced and used during the
period 1300-1550. Acknowledging that books and readers are no
respecters of borders, this collection's geographical scope extends
beyond England in the east to Ghent and Flanders, and in the west
to Waterford and the Dublin Pale. Contributors explore manuscripts
containing works by key writers, including Geoffrey Chaucer, John
Gower, John Wyclif, and Walter Hilton. Major texts whose manuscript
traditions are scrutinized include Speculum Vitae, the Scale of
Perfection, the Canterbury Tales, and Confessio Amantis, along with
a wide range of shorter works such as lyric poems, devotional
texts, and historical chronicles. London book-making activities and
the scribal cultures of other cities and monastic centres all
receive attention, as does the book production of personal
miscellanies. By considering both literary texts and the letters,
charters, and writs that medieval scribes produced, in Latin and
Anglo-French as well as English, this collection celebrates
Professor Mooney's influence on the field and presents a holistic
sense of England's pre-modern textual culture.
Scribes played a crucial part in the flourishing and availability
of literature in English during the time of Chaucer. This book
reveals for the first time who they were, where and how they
worked, and the crucial role they playedin bringing this literature
to a wider public. A sensational book... will permanently affect
and change the way we see the history of the book in England.
Professor Derek Pearsall, Harvard University. Geoffrey Chaucer is
called the Father of English Literature notbecause he was the first
author to write in English - he wasn't - but because his works were
among those of his generation produced in sufficient numbers to
reach a wider audience. He and his contemporaries wrote before the
age of print, so the dissemination of his writings in such quantity
depended upon scribes, who would manually copy works like The
Canterbury Tales in manuscripts. This book is the first to identify
the scribes responsible for the copying of the earliest manuscripts
(including Chaucer's famous scribe, Adam). The authors reveal these
revolutionary copyists as clerks holding major bureaucratic offices
at the London Guildhall, working for the mayor andaldermen,
officiating in their courts, and recording London business in their
day jobs - while copying medieval English literature as a sideline.
In particular, they contributed to the new culture of English as
the language of notonly literature, but government and business as
well. LINNE R. MOONEY is Professor of Medieval English Palaeography
in the Department of English and Related Literature, and Director
of the Centre for Medieval Studiesat the University of York;
ESTELLE STUBBS is a researcher in the School of English Literature,
Language and Linguistics based at the Humanities Research Institute
at the University of Sheffield.
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