Manuscript Culture in the British Isles – serie
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Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England
Av Margaret Connolly, Linne R Mooney
Inbunden, 2008
1498 kr
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New essays on late medieval manuscripts highlight the complicated network of their production and dissemination.One of the most important developments in medieval English literary studies since the 1980s has been the growth of manuscript studies. Long regarded as mere textual repositories, and …
Women and Writing, c.1340-c.1650
The Domestication of Print Culture
Av Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Phillipa Hardman
Inbunden, 2010
1424 kr
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Essays offering a gendered approach to the study of the move from manuscript to early printed book show how much women were involved in the process.The transition from medieval manuscript to early printed book is currently a major topic of academic interest, but has received very little attention …
Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts
Texts, Owners and Readers
Av Ralph Hanna, Thorlac Turville-Petre
Inbunden, 2010
1424 kr
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A survey of the history, holdings, decoration, and conservation of one of England's finest medieval libraries, with full catalogue.The Willoughby family, from Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, built up an extensive medieval library, including the notable Wollaton Antiphonal; theirs is the largest …
Robert Thornton and his Books
Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts
Av Susanna Fein, Michael Johnston
Inbunden, 2014
1498 kr
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Essays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript collections.The Yorkshire landowner Robert Thornton (c.1397- c.1465) copied the contents of two important manuscripts, Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91 (the "Lincoln manuscript"), and …
Middle English Texts in Transition
A Festschrift dedicated to Toshiyuki Takamiya on his 70th birthday
Av Simon Horobin, Linne R Mooney
Inbunden, 2014
518 kr
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Fresh contributions to the study of medieval manuscripts, texts, and their creators.This exciting collection of essays is centred on late medieval English manuscripts and their texts. It offers new insights into the works of canonical literary writers, including Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, …
Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives
Av Susanna Fein
Inbunden, 2016
1513 kr
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Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period.Created in London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1) is of crucial importance as the first book designed to convey in …
Prose Brut and Other Late Medieval Chronicles
Books have their Histories. Essays in Honour of Lister M. Matheson
Av Jaclyn Rajsic, Erik Kooper m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1498 kr
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Essays on the medieval chronicle tradition, shedding light on history writing, manuscript studies and the history of the book, and the post-medieval reception of such texts.The histories of chronicles composed in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and onwards, with a focus on …
Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives
Av Susanna Fein
Häftad, 2018
410 kr
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Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period.Created in London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1) is of crucial importance as the first book designed to convey in …
Interpreting MS Digby 86
A Trilingual Book from Thirteenth-Century Worcestershire
Av Susanna Fein
Inbunden, 2019
1513 kr
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A range of approaches (literary, historical, art-historical, codicological) to this mysterious but hugely significant manuscript.Extravagantly heterogeneous in its contents, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86 is an utterly singular production. On its last folio, the scribe signs off with a …
Scribes and the City
London Guildhall Clerks and the Dissemination of Middle English Literature, 1375-1425
Av Linne R Mooney, Estelle Stubbs
Inbunden, 2013
682 kr
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Scribes played a crucial part in the flourishing and availability of literature in English during the time of Chaucer. This book reveals for the first time who they were, where and how they worked, and the crucial role they playedin bringing this literature to a wider public.A sensational book... …
