The Auchinleck manuscript : new perspectives /

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fein, Susanna, 1950- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, New York : York Medieval Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Auchinleck Manuscript forty years on / Derek Pearsall
  • Codicology and translation in the early sections of the Auchinleck Manuscript / A.S.G. Edwards
  • The Auchinleck Adam and Eve: an exemplary family story / Cathy Hume
  • A failure to communicate: multilingualism in the prologue to Of Arthour and of Merlin / Patrick Butler
  • Scribe 3's literary project: pedagogies of reading in Auchinleck's Booklet 3 / Emily Runde
  • Absent presence: Auchinleck and Kyng Alisaunder / Venetia Bridges
  • Sir Tristrem, a few fragments and the northern identity of the Auchinleck Manuscript / Ann Higgins
  • The invention of King Richard / Marisa Libbon
  • Auchinleck and Chaucer / Helen Phillips
  • Endings in the Auchinleck Manuscript / Siobhain Bly Calkin
  • Paraphs, piecework and presentation: the production methods of Auchinleck Revisited / Timothy A. Shonk
  • Scribal corrections in the Auchinleck Manuscript / Miceal F. Vaughan
  • Auchinleck 'Scribe 6' and some corollary Issues / Ralph Hanna.