Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Professor Julia Boffey

Atkin, Tamara [Editor]; Rajsic, Jaclyn [Editor]; Edwards, A S G [Contributor]; Hiatt, Alfred [Contributor]; Windeatt, Barry A [Contributor]; Edwards, A. S. G. [Contributor];

ISBN 10: 1843845318 / ISBN 13: 9781843845317

Published by D.S. Brewer, 2019

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Synopsis:

Essays on book history, manuscripts and reading during a period of considerable change. The production, transmission, and reception of texts from England and beyond during the late medieval and early renaissance periods are the focus of this volume. Chapters consider the archives and the material contexts in which texts were produced, read, and re-read; the history of specific manuscripts and early printed books; and some of the continuities and changes in literary and book production, dissemination, and reception in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Responding to Professor Julia Boffey's pioneering work on medieval and early Tudor material and literary culture, they cover a range of genres - from practical texts written in Latin to works of Middle English poetryand prose, both secular and religious - and examine an assortment of different reading contexts: lay, devotional, local, regional, and national. TAMARA ATKIN is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early RenaissanceLiterature, and JACLYN RAJSIC is Lecturer in Medieval Literature, at the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London. Contributors: Laura Ashe, Priscilla Bawcutt, Martin Camargo, Margaret Connolly, Robert R. Edwards, A.S.G. Edwards, Susanna Fein, Joel Grossman, Alfred Hiatt, Pamela M. King, Matthew Payne, Derek Pearsall, Corinne Saunders, Barry Windeatt, R.F. Yeager.

About the Authors: A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham.

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.

LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.

Margaret Connolly is Professor of Palaeography and Codicology at the University of St. Andrews.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and ...
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New