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Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England
Essays in Honour of Linne R. Mooney
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Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.
Linne R. Mooney, Emeritus Professor of Palaeography at the University of York, has significantly advanced the study of later medieval English book production, particularly our knowledge of individual scribes; this collection honours her distinguished scholarship and responds to her wide-ranging research on Middle English manuscripts and texts.
The thirteen essays brought together here take a variety of approaches - palaeographical, codicological, dialectal, textual, art historical - to the study of the English medieval book and to the varied environments (professional, administrative, mercantile, ecclesiastical) where manuscripts were produced and used during the period 1300-1550. Acknowledging that books and readers are no respecters of borders, this collection's geographical scope extends beyond England in the east to Ghent and Flanders, and in the west to Waterford and the Dublin Pale.
Contributors explore manuscripts containing works by key writers, including Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, John Wyclif, and Walter Hilton. Major texts whose manuscript traditions are scrutinized include Speculum Vitae, the Scale of Perfection, the Canterbury Tales, and Confessio Amantis, along with a wide range of shorter works such as lyric poems, devotional texts, and historical chronicles. London book-making activities and the scribal cultures of other cities and monastic centres all receive attention, as does the book production of personal miscellanies. By considering both literary texts and the letters, charters, and writs that medieval scribes produced, in Latin and Anglo-French as well as English, this collection celebrates Professor Mooney's influence on the field and presents a holistic sense of England's pre-modern textual culture.
Linne R. Mooney, Emeritus Professor of Palaeography at the University of York, has significantly advanced the study of later medieval English book production, particularly our knowledge of individual scribes; this collection honours her distinguished scholarship and responds to her wide-ranging research on Middle English manuscripts and texts.
The thirteen essays brought together here take a variety of approaches - palaeographical, codicological, dialectal, textual, art historical - to the study of the English medieval book and to the varied environments (professional, administrative, mercantile, ecclesiastical) where manuscripts were produced and used during the period 1300-1550. Acknowledging that books and readers are no respecters of borders, this collection's geographical scope extends beyond England in the east to Ghent and Flanders, and in the west to Waterford and the Dublin Pale.
Contributors explore manuscripts containing works by key writers, including Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, John Wyclif, and Walter Hilton. Major texts whose manuscript traditions are scrutinized include Speculum Vitae, the Scale of Perfection, the Canterbury Tales, and Confessio Amantis, along with a wide range of shorter works such as lyric poems, devotional texts, and historical chronicles. London book-making activities and the scribal cultures of other cities and monastic centres all receive attention, as does the book production of personal miscellanies. By considering both literary texts and the letters, charters, and writs that medieval scribes produced, in Latin and Anglo-French as well as English, this collection celebrates Professor Mooney's influence on the field and presents a holistic sense of England's pre-modern textual culture.
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Contributor: Margaret Connolly
Margaret Connolly is Professor of Palaeography and Codicology at the University of St. Andrews.
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Contributor: Holly James-Maddocks
Holly James-Maddocks is Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Palaeography at the University of York
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Contributor: Derek Pearsall
The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.
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Contributor: Margaret Connolly
Margaret Connolly is Professor of Palaeography and Codicology at the University of St. Andrews.
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Contributor: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON is Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame.
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Contributor: Sebastian Sobecki
SEBASTIAN SOBECKI is Professor of Later Medieval English Literature at the University of Toronto.
His research extends to a wide area of late medieval literary culture, especially law, travel, politics, authorship, manuscripts, and palaeography. --- Contributor: Holly James-Maddocks Holly James-Maddocks is Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Palaeography at the University of York --- Contributor: Wendy Scase WENDY SCASE is Emeritus Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham. --- Contributor: Derek Pearsall The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.
His research extends to a wide area of late medieval literary culture, especially law, travel, politics, authorship, manuscripts, and palaeography. --- Contributor: Holly James-Maddocks Holly James-Maddocks is Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Palaeography at the University of York --- Contributor: Wendy Scase WENDY SCASE is Emeritus Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham. --- Contributor: Derek Pearsall The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.
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CONTENTS
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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CONTRIBUTORS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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INTRODUCTION
1 - PART I INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
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1 HOW ENGLISH IS IT?
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2 MIDDLE HIBERNO- ENGLISH POETRY AND THE NASCENT BUREAUCRATIC LITERARY CULTURE OF IRELAND
45 - PART II IDENTITIES AND LOCALITIES
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3 FAMOUS SCRIBE, UNRECOGNISED STINT
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4 THE HANDWRITING OF FIFTEENTH-CENTURY SIGNET CLERKS AND THE KING’S FRENCH SECRETARIES
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5 SEEKING SCRIBAL COMMUNITIES IN MEDIEVAL LONDON
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6 SCRIBES AND BOOKLETS: THE ‘TRINITY ANTHOLOGIES’ RECONSIDERED
146 - PART III SCRIBAL PRODUCTION
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7 SOME CODICOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON MANUSCRIPTS OF WALTER HILTON’S SCALE OF PERFECTION
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8 THE FIRST EMERGENCE OF THE RICARDIAN CONFESSIO: MORGAN M. 690
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9 THE ANONYMOUS ‘KINGS OF ENGLAND’ AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ITS MATERIAL FORM
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10 JOHN BENET, SCRIBE AND COMPILER, AND DUBLIN, TRINITY COLLEGE, MS 516
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11 THE FOUNDERS’ BOOK OF TEWKESBURY ABBEY (OXFORD, BODLEIAN LIBRARY, MS TOP. GLOUC. D. 2): SCRIPTS AND TRANSCRIPTS
259 - PART IV CHAUCERIAN CONTEXTS
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12 WHEN IS A ‘CANTERBURY TALES MANUSCRIPT’ NOT JUST A CANTERBURY TALES MANUSCRIPT?
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13 CAMBRIDGE, TRINITY COLLEGE, MS R.3.15 AND THE CIRCULATION OF CHAUCERIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
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AFTERWORD: A PERSONAL TRIBUTE
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LINNE R. MOONEY: LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
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INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS
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GENERAL INDEX
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TABULA GRATULATORIA
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January 11, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781800104631
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York Medieval Press
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eBook ISBN:
9781800104631
Keywords for this book
medieval manuscripts; scribes; Middle English literature; medieval book production; palaeography; codicology; Geoffrey Chaucer; Canterbury Tales; fourteenth-century; fifteenth-century; sixteenth-century; England; Ireland; France; Flanders; John Gower; Confessio Amantis; London; Ripon; Speculum Vitae; Walter Hilton; Scale of Perfection; John Lydgate; Adam Pinkhurst; verse; poetry; prose; editing; continental manuscript production; books of hours; illumination; Hiberno-English; Lancastrian; clerk; secretary; handwriting; John Wyclif; John Carpenter; John Marchaunt; Guildhall; Ralph Strode; William Caxton; Wynkyn de Worde; Hammond scribe; 'Kings of England'; chronicle; Stephan Batman; John Stow; John Shirley; William Thynne; Piers Plowman; medieval literature
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
