The making and meaning of a medieval manuscript : interpreting MS Bodley 851 /

How do you read a medieval book? And what is the relationship between the study of manuscripts as material artifacts and the study of their textual contents? This book develops a method for placing book-historical evidence in dialogue with literary meaning. Medieval manuscripts do not simply witness...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sawyer, Thomas C. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, New York : D. S. Brewer, 2025.
Subjects:	Bodleian Library. > Manuscript. > Bodley 851. Manuscripts, Medieval > England. English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Manuscripts. Books and reading > England > History > To 1500.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. How to read a medieval book
Recomposing Bodley 851
Misogamist fragments
Recomposing Walter Map
Walter Map's Piers Plowman - Conclusion. Manuscript meaning.