The Ellesmere Chaucer and Contemporary English Literary Manuscripts
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, Derek.
The Ellesmere Chaucer and Contemporary English Literary Manuscripts
- Published
- Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995), pp. 263-80.
- Description
- Situates the Ellesmere manuscript in the scribal production of "literary" manuscripts in London from 1400 to 1450-1475, i.e., manuscripts of "Chaucer, Gower, Langland, Walton, Hoccleve, and Lydgate (in verse), Trevisa and Nicholas Love--and ... 'Mandeville's Travels'."
- Scribal production in London grew because of the expansion of English over French, "the general increase in literacy," the vogue for translations, and--with Chaucer and Gower--the presence of "vernacular poetry in quantity of a prestigious kind, capable of attracting paying customers."
- Alternative Title
- The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.