Medieval Manuscripts, Readers and Texts: Essays in Honour of Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

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Medieval Manuscripts, Readers and Texts

Essays in Honour of Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Examines manuscripts of Langland, Chaucer, Gower, Nicholas Love and Arthurian tales, alongside other devotional works and archival evidence.

Professor Kathryn Kerby-Fulton's scholarship has transformed the study of medieval manuscripts and readers, particularly in the areas of devotional literature, professional scribal production and clerical writing. The essays collected here celebrate and reflect her influence and practice of giving careful attention to material contexts and archival sources when reading literature produced in late medieval England. They offer new interpretations of scribal practices, professional readers' activities, documentary evidence and challenging material and cultural contexts. They also reconsider scholarly practices and assumptions, while demonstrating how manuscript and archival studies can energize scholarship on such varied topics as authority, reader reception, modern editorial perspectives, gender and religious activities.

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Contributor: Misty Schieberle MISTY SCHIEBERLE is Professor of English at the University of Kansas. --- Contributor: Misty Schieberle MISTY SCHIEBERLE is Professor of English at the University of Kansas. --- Contributor: James Simpson James Simpson teaches English at Harvard University. He publishes on a wide range of topics in on late medieval and early modern Western European Literature. --- Contributor: Jeremy J Smith Jeremy Smith was professor of English philology at Glasgow, where he remains a senior research fellow and emeritus professor, and an honorary professor at St Andrews. His specialisms include English historical linguistics, medieval studies, and book history, combined recently in Transforming Early English (2020). --- Contributor: Amanda Bohne AMANDA BOHNE is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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List of Contributors
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Acknowledgments
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List of Abbreviations
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Introduction
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Misty Schieberle

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1. The Trevisa-Gower Scribe: Another London Literary Scribe of the Early Fifteenth Century
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Linne R. Mooney

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2. Telling Tails: Pursuing the Trail of the Minstrel-Scribe in Manuscripts of Sir Isumbras
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Andrew W. Klein

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3. Ars Codicis: Marginalia, Meaning and the Manuscript Book(s) of Chaucer’s House of Fame
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Sarah Baechle

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4. Editing Chaucer’s Works: Coherence and Collaboration
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Christopher Cannon and James Simpson

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5. The Pleasures of Plainness: Ordinary Manuscripts in Extraordinary Traditions
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Siân Echard

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6. A Dream of John Bale? The Catalogus Vetus and the Lives of Ralph Strode
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Thomas Goodmann

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7. Women’s St Edmund: Envisioning a Saint and his Contemplative Legacy
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Jocelyn Wogan-Browne

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8. Three English Otherworld Visions: Toward a Spirituality of Parish Life
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Barbara Newman

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9. Recognizing the Clerical Proletariat: Evidence from Late Medieval London Wills
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Misty Schieberle

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10. Langland’s Government Scribes at Home and at Work: A Brief Comparison of the HM 114 Scribe and the Fortescue Family
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Karrie Fuller

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11. Function, Form and The Lay Folks’ Mass Book
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Jeremy J. Smith

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12. Professional Reading Networks and The Reception of Nicholas Love’s Mirror of The Blessed Life of Jesus Christ: Opportunities and Consequences
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John J. Thompson

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Kathryn Kerby-Fulton: The Making of a Medievalist
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Rosalynn Voaden

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Kathryn Kerby-Fulton: List of Publications
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Karrie Fuller and Misty Schieberle

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Index of Manuscripts
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General Index
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Tabula gratulatoria
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9781805434283

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York Medieval Press

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781805434283

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Keywords for this book

scribes; marginalia; patron; compiler; Ricardian Era; Reformation; Confessio Amantis; House of Fame; Sir Isumbras; eclecticism; Historia regum Britannie; Ralph Strode; identification; cloister; Lacock Abbey; Mirour de seinte eglyse; spirituality; laity; Hoccleve; prayer books

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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research

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Medieval Manuscripts, Readers and Texts

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Trevisa-Gower Scribe: Another London Literary Scribe of the Early Fifteenth Century

2. Telling Tails: Pursuing the Trail of the Minstrel-Scribe in Manuscripts of Sir Isumbras

3. Ars Codicis: Marginalia, Meaning and the Manuscript Book(s) of Chaucer’s House of Fame

4. Editing Chaucer’s Works: Coherence and Collaboration

5. The Pleasures of Plainness: Ordinary Manuscripts in Extraordinary Traditions

6. A Dream of John Bale? The Catalogus Vetus and the Lives of Ralph Strode

7. Women’s St Edmund: Envisioning a Saint and his Contemplative Legacy

8. Three English Otherworld Visions: Toward a Spirituality of Parish Life

9. Recognizing the Clerical Proletariat: Evidence from Late Medieval London Wills

10. Langland’s Government Scribes at Home and at Work: A Brief Comparison of the HM 114 Scribe and the Fortescue Family

11. Function, Form and The Lay Folks’ Mass Book

12. Professional Reading Networks and The Reception of Nicholas Love’s Mirror of The Blessed Life of Jesus Christ: Opportunities and Consequences

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton: The Making of a Medievalist

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton: List of Publications

Index of Manuscripts

General Index

Tabula gratulatoria

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