Patch and Repair and Making Do in Manuscripts and Texts Associated with John Stow

Author / Editor
Thompson, John J.

Title
Patch and Repair and Making Do in Manuscripts and Texts Associated with John Stow

Published
Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 353-61.

Description
Considers the omission of ABC from Chaucer's canon and what it reflects about the editorial habits of John Stow and Thomas Speght; religious-political pressures on editors of the time; and the reception of the Marian devotion of ABC in Protestant England.

Alternative Title
Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood.

Chaucer Subjects
ABC.
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