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Insular books : vernacular manuscript miscellanies in late Medieval Britain
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Insular Books: Vernacular Miscellanies in Late Medieval Britain (Conference) (2012 : London, England), creator.
- Series:
- Proceedings of the British Academy ; 201.
- Proceedings of the British Academy Insular books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manuscripts, English (Middle)--History--Early modern, 1500-1700--England.
- Manuscripts, English (Middle).
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Manuscripts.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- English literature--History.
- English literature.
- Manuscripts, Welsh.
- England.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 330 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Published for The British Academy by Open University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume aims to rethink critical assumptions about a particular type of medieval manuscript: the miscellany.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Margaret Connolly and Raluca Radulescu
- Texts in conversation : Charlemagne epics and romances in insular plural-text codices / Marianne Ailes and Phillipa Hardman
- Multilingualism, the Harley scribe, and Johannes Jacobi / Keith Busby
- Literary scribes : the Harley scribe and Robert Thornton as case studies / Susanna Fein
- The organisation of multilingual miscellanies : the contrasting fortunes of Middle English lyrics and romances / Ad Putter
- John Northwood's miscellany revisited / Wendy Scase
- Vying for attention : the contents of Dublin, Trinity College, MS 432 / Raluca Radulescu
- The chivalric miscellany : classifying John Paston's "Grete booke" / Andrew Taylor
- Amateur book production and the miscellany in late medieval East Anglia : Tanner 407 and Beinecke 365 / Carol M. Meale
- Writing without borders : multilingual content in Welsh miscellanies from Wales, the Marches, and beyond / Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
- Welsh bardic miscellanies / Dafydd Johnston
- Lancelot of the laik and the literary manuscript miscellany in 15th- and 16th-century Scotland / Emily Wingfield
- Entertainment networks, reading communities, and the early Tudor anthology: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson C. 813 / Deborah Youngs
- Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS Peniarth 12 : the development of a bilingual miscellany
- Welsh and English / William Marx
- Towards a taxonomy of Middle English manuscript assemblages / Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards
- The whole book and the whole picture : editions and facsimiles of medieval miscellanies and their influence / Margaret Connolly
- Afterword / Ardis Butterfield.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 3, 2015).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-80596-384-8
- 1-80596-188-8
- 0-19-177199-6
- OCLC:
- 1545126494
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