A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript (BL MS Add 17,492): Volume 5 (New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies) - Hardcover

Siemens, Raymond G.; Armstrong, Karin; Crompton, Constance

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0866985174 ISBN 13: 9780866985178

Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US, 2015

Synopsis

Described by Colin Burrow as 'the richest surviving record of early Tudor poetry and of the literary activities of 16th-century women,' the Devonshire Manuscript (BL MS Add. 17492) is a verse miscellany belonging to the 1530s and early 1540s, including some 194 items including complete poems, verse fragments and excerpts from longer works, anagrams, and other ephemeral jottings attributed to Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Lady Margaret Douglas, Richard Hattfield, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Thomas Howard, Edmund Knyvett, Anthony Lee, and Henry Stewart, as well transcriptions of the work of others or original works by prominent court figures such as Mary Shelton, Lady Margaret Douglas, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy, Lord Thomas Howard, and, possibly, Anne Boleyn.  This edition publishes the contents of the manuscript in their entirety, documenting well the manuscript's place as the earliest sustained example in English of men and women writing together in a community.

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About the Author

Raymond G. Siemens is distinguished professor of English and computer science at the University of Victoria.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0866985174
• ISBN 13: 9780866985178
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 520