Print culture and the medieval author : Chaucer, Lydgate, and their books, 1473-1557 / Alexandra Gillespie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gillespie, Alexandra, author.

Series:

Oxford English monographs.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford English monographs

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?--Criticism and interpretation.

Books--History--1450-1600.

Printing--England--History--16th century.

Printing--England--History--Origin and antecedents.

Transmission of texts--England--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examining hundreds of early printed books containing works by Chaucer, the 'father' of English poetry, and his much-maligned follower, John Lydgate. She demonstrates that the shift from manuscript to print was part of the controversial process by which Chaucer earned his exclusive place in English literary history.

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Author and the Book; 1. Caxton and Fifteenth-Century English Books; 2. Good Utterance: Printing and Innovation after 1478; 3. Assembling Chaucer's Texts in Print, 1517 to 1532; 4. Court and Cloister: Editions of Lydgate, 1509 to 1534; 5. The Press, the Medieval Author, and the English Reformations, 1534 to 1557; Afterword: At Lydgate's Tomb; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts; Index of Printed Editions, Texts Ascribed to Chaucer and Lydgate, 1473-1557; General Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-263) and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04046-X

1-280-75918-6

0-19-151465-9

1-4294-6022-9

OCLC:

476244132