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Diverting authorities : experimental glossing practices in manuscript and print /

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This book examines the glossing of a variety of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century texts by authors including Lydgate, Douglas, Chaloner, Baldwin, Bullein, Harington and Nashe. It is concerned particularly with the use of glosses as a means for authors to reflect on the process of shaping a text, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Griffiths, Jane, 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscript design > History.
English literature > 16th century > History and criticism.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Printing > Great Britain > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Material processes : the glossing of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes and Fall of princes
  • Authors, translators, and commenators : glossing practices in Bodleian MS Fairfax 16
  • Exhortations to the reader : the double glossing of Douglas' Eneados
  • Glossing the spoken word : Erasmus' Moriae encomium and Chaloner's Praise of folie
  • A broil of voices : the printed word in Baldwin's Beware the cat and Bullein's Dialogue against the fever pestilence
  • 'Masking naked in a net' : author and text in the works of Gascoigne and Harington
  • 'Playing the dolt in print' : the extemporary glossing of Nashe's Pierce Penilesse his supplication to the devil.