Manuscripts and Ghosts : Essays on the Transmission of Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature
- Author / Editor
- Scattergood, John.
Manuscripts and Ghosts : Essays on the Transmission of Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature
- Published
- Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006.
- Physical Description
- 320 pp.
- Description
- Reprints fifteen previously published essays by Scattergood, plus a sixteenth, original essay, "The Copying of Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts" (pp. 21-82). The latter--which discusses the habits and status of medieval scribes, early printers, and attitudes among these conveyors of literature--comments on Chaucer and his transmission. Among the reprinted essays is Scattergood's "The Jongleur, the Copyist, and the Printer: The Tradition of Chaucer's Wordes unto Adam, His Own Scriveyn."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.