Description
Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture. Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland, Chaucer and Nicholas Love. It thus pays a fitting tribute to the career of Professor A.S.G. Edwards, highlighting his scholarly interests and demonstrating the influence of his achievements. Carol M. Meale is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol; the late Derek Pearsall was Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of York. Contributors: Nicolas Barker, J.A. Burrow, A.I. Doyle, Martha W. Driver, Susanna Fein, Jane Griffiths, Lotte Hellinga, Alfred Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Richard Linenthal,Carol M. Meale, Orietta Da Rold, John Scattergood, Kathleen L. Scott, Toshiyuki Takamiya, John J. Thompson.
About the Author
The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.
Reviews
[O]ffers a compendium of much of the research going on in Middle English manuscript and bibliographical studies and will be invaluable to scholars at all levels. * JEGP *
These essays bring new findings to the table and deserve to be widely read by students of medieval books. * ARCHIV *
An excellent volume that everyone working in early book studies will want to read, and from which those who do not normally engage with manuscript and print studies would learn a great deal. * JOURNAL OF THE EDINBURGH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY *
[The essays] are generous, rigorous, richly detailed and replete with fascinating discoveries about medieval books. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *
It is precisely this sort of research that can offer clinching evidence for arguments about premodern books and the texts contained in them. It is vital that there remains a publishing space for this level of evidence. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *
Book Information
ISBN 9781843843757
Author Carol Meale
Format Hardback
Page Count 275
Imprint D.S. Brewer
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g
About the Author
The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.
Reviews
[O]ffers a compendium of much of the research going on in Middle English manuscript and bibliographical studies and will be invaluable to scholars at all levels. * JEGP *
These essays bring new findings to the table and deserve to be widely read by students of medieval books. * ARCHIV *
An excellent volume that everyone working in early book studies will want to read, and from which those who do not normally engage with manuscript and print studies would learn a great deal. * JOURNAL OF THE EDINBURGH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY *
[The essays] are generous, rigorous, richly detailed and replete with fascinating discoveries about medieval books. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *
It is precisely this sort of research that can offer clinching evidence for arguments about premodern books and the texts contained in them. It is vital that there remains a publishing space for this level of evidence. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *
Book Information
ISBN 9781843843757
Author Carol Meale
Format Hardback
Page Count 275
Imprint D.S. Brewer
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g
