Miscellaneity and Vernacularity: Conditions of Literacy Production in Late Medieval England

Author / Editor
Hanna, Ralph,III.

Title
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.