Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England

Margaret Connolly is Professor of Palaeography and Codicology at the University of St. Andrews. Holly James-Maddocks is Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Palaeography at the University of York 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. Margaret Connolly is Professor of Palaeography and Codicology at the University of St. Andrews. KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON is Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame. SEBASTIAN SOBECKI is Professor of Later Medieval English Literature at the University of Toronto. His research extends to a wide area of late medieval literary culture, especially law, travel, politics, authorship, manuscripts, and palaeography. Holly James-Maddocks is Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Palaeography at the University of York WENDY SCASE is Emeritus Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham. DANIEL W. MOSSER is Emeritus Professor of English at Virginia Tech. He has published numerous articles on fifteenth-century manuscripts and incunabula, primarily those containing Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He has collaborated on the production and maintenance of two large online reference works: The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive (with Ernest W. Sullivan II, et al.), and the Digital Index of Middle English Verse (together with Linne R. Mooney, et al.). 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.

• Introduction -- Margaret ConnollyI: International PerspectivesHow English is it? -- Martha W. DriverMiddle Hiberno-English Poetry and the Nascent Bureaucratic Literary Culture of Ireland -- Kathryn Kerby-FultonII: Identities and LocalitiesFamous Scribe, Unrecognised Stint -- Ralph HannaThe Handwriting of Fifteenth-Century Signet Clerks and the King's French Secretaries -- Sebastian SobeckiSeeking Scribal Communities in Medieval London -- Estelle V. Stubbs Scribes and Booklets: The 'Trinity Anthologies' Reconsidered -- Holly James-MaddocksIII: Scribal ProductionSome Codicological Observations on Manuscripts of Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection -- Michael G. SargentThe First Emergence of the Ricardian Confessio: Morgan 690 -- Joel FredellThe Anonymous 'Kings of England' and the Significance of its Material Form -- Margaret ConnollyJohn Benet, Scribe and Compiler, and Dublin, Trinity College, MS 516 -- Wendy ScaseThe Founders' Book of Tewkesbury Abbey (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Top. Glouc. D. 2): Scripts and Transcripts --Susan PowellIV: Chaucerian ContextsWhen is a 'Canterbury Tales Manuscript' not Just a Canterbury Tales Manuscript? -- Daniel W. MosserCambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.15 and the Circulation of Chaucerian Manuscripts in the Sixteenth Century -- Simon HorobinAfterword: A Personal Tribute -- Derek PearsallLinne R. Mooney: List of Publications -- Daryl Green