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A wide range of poets is covered - Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, the Gawain poet, Langland, and Lydgate, along with the translator of Claudian's I>
Synopsis
Material on the production and transmission of medieval literature and the early formation of the canon of English poetry.
A wide range of poets is covered - Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, the Gawain poet, Langland, and Lydgate, along with the translator of Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis. The Turnament of Totenham is read in termsof theory of the carnivalesque and popular culture, and major contributions are made to current linguistic, editorial and codicological controversies. Going beyond the Middle Ages, the book also considers the sixteenth-century reception of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Post-Reformation reading of Lydgate. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the production and transmission of medieval literature, and in the early formation of the canon of English poetry.
Contributors: JULIA BOFFEY, J.A. BURROW, CHRISTOPHER CANNON, MARTHA DRIVER, SIAN ECHARD, A.S.G. EDWARDS, KATE D. HARRIS, S.S. HUSSEY, KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON, CAROL M. MEALE, LINNE R. MOONEY, CHARLOTTE C. MORSE, V.I.J. SCATTERGOOD, ELIZABETH SOLOPOVA, ESTELLE STUBBS, JOHN THOMPSON.
Synopsis
Material on the production and transmission of medieval literature and the early formation of the canon of English poetry.
Synopsis
A wide range of poets is covered - Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, the Gawain poet, Langland, and Lydgate, along with the translator of Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis. The Turnament of Totenham is read in terms of theory of the carnivalesque and popular culture, and major contributions are made to current linguistic, editorial and codicological controversies. Going beyond the Middle Ages, the book also considers the sixteenth-century reception of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Post-Reformation reading of Lydgate. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the production and transmission of medieval literature, and in the early formation of the canon of English poetry. Contributors: JULIA BOFFEY, J.A. BURROW, CHRISTOPHER CANNON, MARTHA DRIVER, SIAN ECHARD, A.S.G. EDWARDS, KATE D. HARRIS, S.S. HUSSEY, KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON, CAROL M. MEALE, LINNE R. MOONEY, CHARLOTTE C. MORSE, V.I.J. SCATTERGOOD, ELIZABETH SOLOPOVA, ESTELLE STUBBS, JOHN THOMPSON.
Table of Contents
The unchangeable word: the dating of manuscripts and the history of English / Christopher Cannon -- Clare Priory, the London Austin friars and manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / Estelle Stubbs -- The survival of Chaucer's punctuation in the early manuscripts of the Canterbury tales / Elizabeth Solopova -- What the Clerk's tale suggests about Manly and Rickert's edition, and the Canterbury tales project / Charlotte C. Morse -- Dialogues and monologues: manuscript representations of the conversation of the Confessio amantis / Siãan Echard -- The Longleat house extracted manuscript of Gower's Confessio amantis / Kate Harris -- 'Iste liber constat Johanni Mascy': Dublin, Trinity College, MS 155 / John Scattergood -- Romance and its anti-type? The turnament of Totenham, the carnivalesque, and popular culture / Carol M. Meale -- Langland the outsider / S.S. Hussey -- Langland 'in his working clothes'?: Scribe D, authorial loose revision material, and the nature of scribal intervention / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton -- Scribal mismetring / J.A. Burrow -- Reading Lydgate in post-reformation England / John J. Thompson -- Medievalizing the classical past in Pierpont Morgan MS M 876 / Martha W. Driver -- Scribes and booklets of Trinity College, Cambridge, manuscripts R.3.19 and R.3.21 / Linne R. Mooney -- The middle English translation of Claudian's De consulatu stilichonis / A.S.G. Edwards -- 'Twenty thousand more': some fifteenth- and sixteenth- century responses to The legend of good women / Julia Boffey.