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The Middle English book : scribes and readers, 1350 -1500 /

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"The Middle English Book addresses a series of quite basic--but largely, as yet, unanswered--questions about the copying and circulation of literature in late medieval England: How do we make sense of the variety of manuscripts surviving from this period? Who copied and disseminated these diver...

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Main Author: Johnston, Michael (Michael Robert), 1977- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture.
Subjects:
Books > History > 1450-1600.
Manuscripts, English (Middle)
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Scribes > England.
Manuscrits anglais (moyen anglais)
Littérature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Livres > Histoire > 1450-1600.
Scribes > Angleterre.
English literature > Middle English
Literature: history & criticism.
Literature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: A Word about Terminology and Conventions
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Nomenclature
  • 2. The Elaborate Book
  • 3. The Streamlined Book
  • 4. The Evolving Book
  • 5. The DIY Book
  • 6. The Proliferation of Scribes, I: The Manuscript Evidence
  • 7. The Proliferation of Scribes, II: The Historical Evidence
  • Conclusion
  • Coda: From Gutenberg and Caxton to Jeff Bezos
  • Appendix: The Manuscripts in My Corpus
  • Bibliography
  • Manuscript Index
  • Index