The Manuscripts and Transmission of Chaucer's Troilus
- Author / Editor
- Hanna, Ralph, III.
The Manuscripts and Transmission of Chaucer's Troilus
- Published
- James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 173-88.
- Description
- Though they are continuous copies, made without hesitation, surviving manuscripts of TC contain embedded features of their predecessors. The features we infer from extant copies may belong to immediate exemplars used by the scribes of those copies or may have emerged at some earlier stage of the text.
- Alternative Title
- Idea of Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.