Alexandra Gillespie is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of Toronto.

This densely detailed monograph combines an exhaustive knowlwdge of the transmission, in both manuscript and print forms, of Chaucerian and Lydgatian texts with a theoretical interest in the status of the author, and authorship, in the late medieval/early Tudor periods... there is ndoubting the author's learning.

• Introduction: The Author and the Book ; 1. Caxton and the Fifteenth-Century English Book ; 2. Good Utterance: Printing and Innovation after 1478 ; 3. Assembling Chaucer's Texts in Print, 1517 to 1532 ; 4. Court and Cloister: Editions of Lydgate, 1509 to 1534 ; 5. The Press, the Medieval Author, and the English Reformation, 1534 to 1557 ; Afterword: At Lydgate's Tomb ; Manuscripts ; Editions Printed Containing Texts Ascribed to Chaucer or Lydgate, 1473-1557

Alexandra Gillespie is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of Toronto.

This densely detailed monograph combines an exhaustive knowlwdge of the transmission, in both manuscript and print forms, of Chaucerian and Lydgatian texts with a theoretical interest in the status of the author, and authorship, in the late medieval/early Tudor periods... there is ndoubting the author's learning.

• Introduction: The Author and the Book ; 1. Caxton and the Fifteenth-Century English Book ; 2. Good Utterance: Printing and Innovation after 1478 ; 3. Assembling Chaucer's Texts in Print, 1517 to 1532 ; 4. Court and Cloister: Editions of Lydgate, 1509 to 1534 ; 5. The Press, the Medieval Author, and the English Reformation, 1534 to 1557 ; Afterword: At Lydgate's Tomb ; Manuscripts ; Editions Printed Containing Texts Ascribed to Chaucer or Lydgate, 1473-1557

Alexandra Gillespie is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of Toronto.

This densely detailed monograph combines an exhaustive knowlwdge of the transmission, in both manuscript and print forms, of Chaucerian and Lydgatian texts with a theoretical interest in the status of the author, and authorship, in the late medieval/early Tudor periods... there is ndoubting the author's learning.

• Introduction: The Author and the Book ; 1. Caxton and the Fifteenth-Century English Book ; 2. Good Utterance: Printing and Innovation after 1478 ; 3. Assembling Chaucer's Texts in Print, 1517 to 1532 ; 4. Court and Cloister: Editions of Lydgate, 1509 to 1534 ; 5. The Press, the Medieval Author, and the English Reformation, 1534 to 1557 ; Afterword: At Lydgate's Tomb ; Manuscripts ; Editions Printed Containing Texts Ascribed to Chaucer or Lydgate, 1473-1557