Worlds Made Flesh: Chronicle Histories and Medieval Manuscript Culture
- Author / Editor
- Mayer, Lauryn Stacey.
Worlds Made Flesh: Chronicle Histories and Medieval Manuscript Culture
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 565A, 2001.
- Description
- Studies the manuscript transmission ("more akin to gene splicing than copying") of Old English poetry and prose, chronicle histories, and Chaucer. To establish Chaucer as a forerunner of later poetry, printers deliberately modify his works.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.