Miscellaneity and Vernacularity: Conditions of Literacy Production in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Hanna, Ralph,III.
Miscellaneity and Vernacularity: Conditions of Literacy Production in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Stephen G. Nichols and Siegfried Wenzel, eds. The Whole Book:Cultural Perspectives on the Medieval Miscellany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), pp. 37-51.
- Description
- Using Winchester College MS 33 as a touchstone for examining the difficulties of apprehending medieval texts, Hanna attributes the miscellaneous nature of collections of vernacular works in manuscripts to the difficulties of textual supply rather than to randomness.
- Alternative Title
- The Whole Book: Cultural Perspectives on the Medieval Miscellany.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.