Medieval Texts in Context 1st Edition by Graham Caie, Denis Renevey ISBN 0415360250 9780415360258

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ISBN 10:       0415360250
ISBN 13: 978-0415360258
Author:         Graham Caie, Denis Renevey

This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating the various interconnections between medieval material and literary traditions. The contributors’ work aids reconstruction of the period’s writing practices, as contextual factors surrounding the texts provide clues to the ‘manuscript experience’. Topics such as scribal practice and textual providence, glosses, rubrics, page lay-out, and even page ruling, are addressed in a manner illustrative and suggestive of textual practice of the time, while the volume further considers the interface between the manuscript and early textual communities.

Looking at medieval inventories of books no longer extant, and addressing questions such as ownership, reading practices and textual production, Medieval Texts in Context addresses the fundamental interpretative issue of how scribe-editors worked with an eye to their intended audience. An understanding of the world inhabited by the scribal community is made use of to illuminate the rationale behind the manufacture of devotional texts. The combination of approaches to the medieval vernacular manuscript presented in this volume is unique, marking a major, innovative contribution to manuscript studies.

Medieval Texts in Context 1st  Table of contents:

1 The manuscript experience What medieval vernacular manuscripts tell us about authors and texts

2 Aspects of mise-en-page in manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible1

3 Harley 3954 and the audience of Piers Plowman

4 ‘Cy ensuent trois chaunceons’ Groups and sequences of Middle English lyrics

5 Sir John Fastolf’s French books

6 Journeyman manuscript production and lay piety The Hopton Hall manuscript

7 Contexts and comments The Chastising of God’s Children and The Mirror of Simple Souls in MS Bodley 505

8 The haunted text Reflections in The Mirror to Deuout People

9 Some North Yorkshire scribes and their context

10 Looking for a context Rolle, anchoritic culture, and the Office of the Dead

11 Issues of linguistic categorisation in the evolution of written Middle English

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