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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: making of Thomas Hoccleve's Series
  name:
    name part: Watt, David
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Thomas Hoccleve's Series (1419-21) tells the story of its own making. The Making of Thomas Hoccleve's Series analyzes this story and considers what it might contribute to the larger story about book production in the fifteenth century. Focusing on four surviving manuscripts made by Hoccleve himself between 1422 and 1426, the first four chapters explore the making of the Series in context. They examine the importance of audience judgment in the selection and juxtaposition of forms, the extent to which the physical flexibility of books could serve the needs of their owners and their makers, the changing tastes of fifteenth-century readers and the appetite for new paradigms for reform in head and members. The final chapter analyzes the most important non-authorial copy of the Series in order to ask what others made of it. While this study draws on Hoccleve's experience, it asserts that the Series offers a reflection on, not a reflection of, his conception of book production. The ironic contrast between what Hoccleve's narrator intends and accomplishes when making his book is its most redeeming feature, for it provides insight into the many conflicting pressures that shaped the way books were made and imagined in early fifteenth-century England.
  table of contents: List of illustrations -- Note on editions and abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : the making of Thomas Hoccleve's Series -- 'Among the Prees' : San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 111 and the audience in and for the Series -- 'I this book shal make' : San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 744 and the structure of the series -- 'That labour y forsook' : Durham, University Library, MS Cosin V.iii.9 and the end of the Series -- 'The substaunce of my memory' : London, British Library, MS Additional 24062 and the re-formation of character in the Series -- 'My skyn to turne' : beholding the Series in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 53 -- Conclusion : 'Go, Smal Book' -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: David Watt.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [222]-242) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hoccleve, Thomas
      name part: 1370?-1450?
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hoccleve, Thomas
      name part: 1370?-1450?
    topic: Themes, motives
  subject:
    topic: Authorship in literature
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: Middle English, 1100-1500
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Books and reading
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  classification: 821.2
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Exeter medieval texts and studies
  identifier: 9780859898690 (hbk.)
  identifier: 0859898695 (hbk.)
  record info:
    record content source: UKM
    record creation date: 120322
    record change date: 20151206090114.0
    record identifier: in00003420842