John Shirley and the Emulation of Court Culture

Author / Editor
Edwards, A. S. G.

Title
John Shirley and the Emulation of Court Culture

Published
Evelyn Mullally and John Thompson, eds. The Court and Cultural Diversity: Selected Papers from the Eighth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, The Queen's University of Belfast, 26 July-1 August 1995 (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N. Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp. 309-17.

Description
John Shirley lived on the "fringes of the aristocracy," and aspects of the manuscripts he produced suggest that he desired to emulate courtliness in his book production.

Alternative Title
The Court and Cultural Diversity: Selected Papers from the Eighth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.