Questions of Evidence: Manuscripts and the Early History of Chaucer's Works
- Author / Editor
- Partridge, Stephen.
Questions of Evidence: Manuscripts and the Early History of Chaucer's Works
- Published
- Daniel Pinti, ed. Writing After Chaucer: Essential Reading in Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century (London and New York: Garland, 1998), pp. 2-26.
- Description
- Focusing on manuscripts of Chaucer's works, Partridge assesses the habits of scribes and book owners in the fifteenth century, showing how variants among texts alter meaning and how fifteenth-century readers, aware of such variants, made "corrections" to the texts for various reasons. However, some of the changes reflect Chaucer's own revisions. Includes a bibliography of further reading.
- Alternative Title
- Writings After Chaucer: Essential Reading in Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.