'Mise-en-page' in the 'Troilus' Manuscripts: Chaucer and French Manuscript Culture
- Author / Editor
- Butterfield, Ardis.
'Mise-en-page' in the 'Troilus' Manuscripts: Chaucer and French Manuscript Culture
- Published
- Huntington Library Quarterly 58 (1996): 49-80.
- Description
- In addition to large formal sections, the "ordinatio" of fifteenth-century TC manuscripts marks categories of text and genre shifts (songs, letters, lyrics). Such practice, resembling that in manuscripts of Machaut and Froissart, suggests that TC participates in a cultural process in which scribal prerogatives of dividing the text and subordinating certain features to a larger conceptual hierarchy are closely aligned with new ideas of authorship.
- Alternative Title
- Reading from the Margins: Textual Studies, Chaucer, and Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Troilus and Criseyde.