Verfasst von:	Wakelin, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Immaterial texts in late medieval England
Titelzusatz:	making English literary manuscripts, 1400-1500
Verf.angabe:	Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford)
Verlagsort:	Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore
Verlag:	Cambridge University Press
Jahr:	2022
Umfang:	xv, 284 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis Seite 240-273
ISBN:	978-1-00-910058-8
	978-1-00-911331-1
Abstract:	"Daniel Wakelin introduces and reinterprets the misunderstood and overlooked craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes involved in making some of the most important manuscripts in late medieval English literature. In doing so he overturns how we view the role of scribes, showing how they ignored or concealed irregular and damaged parchment; ruled pages from habit and convention more than necessity; decorated the division of the text into pages or worried that it would harm reading; abandoned annotations to poetry, focusing on the poem itself; and copied English poems meticulously, in reverence for an abstract idea of the text. Scribes' interest in immaterial ideas and texts suggests their subtle thinking as craftspeople, in ways that contrast and extend current interpretations of late medieval literary culture, 'material texts' and the power of materials. For students, researchers and librarians, this book offers revelatory perspectives on the activities of late medieval scribes"--
DOI:	doi:10.1017/9781009119313
URL:	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009119313
Schlagwörter:	(s)Schreiber    / (s)Handschrift    / (g)England    / (z)Geschichte 1100-1500
	(s)Mittelenglisch    / (s)Literatur    / (s)Handschrift    / (z)Geschichte 1400-1500
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Wakelin, Daniel, - 1977-: Immaterial texts in late medieval England. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022. - 1 online resource (xv, 284 pages)
Sach-SW:	LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
K10plus-PPN:	1793558566