Scribes and Hypertext

Author / Editor
Burnley, David.

Title
Scribes and Hypertext

Published
Yearbook of English Studies 25 (1995): 41-62.

Description
Comments on scribal habits reflected in late-medieval English manuscripts and assesses the utility of electronic hypertext to record variations, using examples from Chaucer and other Middle English authors.
Medieval scribal practice may be the closest available analogue to hypertext composition.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.