Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. CONTRIBUTORS xv
5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xvii
6. ABBREVIATIONS xix
7. INTRODUCTION 1
8. PART I INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
9. 1 HOW ENGLISH IS IT? 25
10. 2 MIDDLE HIBERNO- ENGLISH POETRY AND THE NASCENT BUREAUCRATIC LITERARY CULTURE OF IRELAND 45
11. PART II IDENTITIES AND LOCALITIES
12. 3 FAMOUS SCRIBE, UNRECOGNISED STINT 67
13. 4 THE HANDWRITING OF FIFTEENTH-CENTURY SIGNET CLERKS AND THE KING’S FRENCH SECRETARIES 82
14. 5 SEEKING SCRIBAL COMMUNITIES IN MEDIEVAL LONDON 125
15. 6 SCRIBES AND BOOKLETS: THE ‘TRINITY ANTHOLOGIES’ RECONSIDERED 146
16. PART III SCRIBAL PRODUCTION
17. 7 SOME CODICOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON MANUSCRIPTS OF WALTER HILTON’S SCALE OF PERFECTION 183
18. 8 THE FIRST EMERGENCE OF THE RICARDIAN CONFESSIO: MORGAN M. 690 200
19. 9 THE ANONYMOUS ‘KINGS OF ENGLAND’ AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ITS MATERIAL FORM 222
20. 10 JOHN BENET, SCRIBE AND COMPILER, AND DUBLIN, TRINITY COLLEGE, MS 516 241
21. 11 THE FOUNDERS’ BOOK OF TEWKESBURY ABBEY (OXFORD, BODLEIAN LIBRARY, MS TOP. GLOUC. D. 2): SCRIPTS AND TRANSCRIPTS 259
22. PART IV CHAUCERIAN CONTEXTS
23. 12 WHEN IS A ‘CANTERBURY TALES MANUSCRIPT’ NOT JUST A CANTERBURY TALES MANUSCRIPT? 285
24. 13 CAMBRIDGE, TRINITY COLLEGE, MS R.3.15 AND THE CIRCULATION OF CHAUCERIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 312
25. AFTERWORD: A PERSONAL TRIBUTE 329
26. LINNE R. MOONEY: LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 333
27. INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS 339
28. GENERAL INDEX 346
29. TABULA GRATULATORIA 364