New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices : Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall / edited by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, John J. Thompson and Sarah Baechle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pearsall, Derek, honouree.

Baechle, Sarah, editor.

Thompson, John J.

Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--England--History--To 1500.

Books and reading.

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--Manuscripts.

English literature.

Manuscripts, Medieval--England.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Pearsall, Derek.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (532 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This volume gathers the contributions of senior and junior scholars-all indebted to the pathbreaking work of Derek Pearsall-to showcase new research prompted by his rich and ongoing legacy as a literary critic, editor, and seminal founder of Middle English manuscript studies. The contributors aim both to honor Pearsall's work in the field he established and to introduce the complexities of interdisciplinary manuscript studies to students already familiar with medieval literature. The contributors explore a range of issues, from the study of medieval literary manuscripts to the history of medieval books, libraries, literacy, censorship, and the social classes who used the books and manuscripts-nobles, children, schoolmasters, priests, merchants, and more. In addressing reading practices, essays provide a wealth of information on marginal commentaries, images and interpretive methods, international transmission, and early print and editorial methods. "New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices marks the heritage of the distinguished scholar Derek Pearsall while highlighting his continuing influence on medieval manuscript studies. Buoyed by fine work of senior scholars, the collection also introduces readers to stimulating work by an upcoming generation of more recent practitioners, all of whom address crucial issues in the field: the particulars of individual manuscripts, including scribal practice, marginal commentary, and audience reception. The result is a fine collection at once canonical in some respects and innovative in others." -Paul H. Strohm, Anna S. Garbedian Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Columbia University"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""A Brief Biographical Sketch of Derek Pearsall""; ""Part I: Celebrating Pearsallian Reading Practices""; ""Chapter 1: Narrative and Freedom in Troilus and Criseyde""; ""Chapter 2: How Good Is the Outspoken South English Legendary Poet? ""; ""Chapter 3: Derek Pearsall, Secret Shakespearean""; ""Part II: England and International""; ""Chapter 4: The Tongues of the Nightingale""; ""Chapter 5: Wings, Wingfields, and Wynnere and Wastoure""; ""Chapter 6: The Author of the Italian Meditations on the Life of Christ""

""Chapter 7: Handling The Book of Margery Kempe""""Part III: The Making of a Field""; ""Chapter 8: Assessing Manuscript Context""; ""Chapter 9: Books with Marginalia from St. Mark's Hospital, Bristol""; ""Chapter 10: John Colyns, Mercer and Bookseller of London, and Cuthbert Tunstall's Second Monition of 1526""; ""Chapter 11: Selling Lydgate Manuscripts in the Twentieth Century""; ""Part IV: Newer Directions in Manuscript Studies I""; ""Chapter 12: "And fer ouer þe French flod"""; ""Chapter 13: Langlandian Economics in James Yonge's Gouernaunce""; ""Chapter 14: Manuscript Creation in Dublin""

""Part V: Newer Directions in Manuscript Studies II""""Chapter 15: The Romance of History""; ""Chapter 16: Langland in the Early Modern Household""; ""Chapter 17: Playing as Literate Practice""; ""Part VI: Chaucerian and Post-Chaucerian Reading Practices""; ""Chapter 18: Quoting Chaucer""; ""Chapter 19: Chaucer, the Continent, and the Characteristics of Commentary""; ""Chapter 20: Hoccleve in Canterbury""; ""Chapter 21: The Legacy of John Shirley""; ""Part VII: What a Poet Is "Entitled to Be Remembered By"""; ""Chapter 22: Was the C-Reviser's Manuscript Really So Corrupt?""

""Chapter 23: Emending Oneself""""Chapter 24: Confronting the Scribe-Poet Binary""; ""Contributors""; ""Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula""; ""General Index""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780268084622

0268084629

OCLC:

895270659