Printing the Middle Ages. Material Texts
- Author / Editor
- Echard, Siân.
Printing the Middle Ages. Material Texts
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 314 pp.
- Description
- Echard studies the "postmedieval life of medieval texts" as they are embodied in material form, exploring strategies for representing the authenticity of the texts and for reimagining them for new audiences. The book includes chapters on design features in editions of Piers Plowman and Pierce the Plowman's Crede, typographical representations of Old English, illustrations in Bevis of Hampton and Sir Guy of Warwick, the Trentham manuscript of Gower's works, juvenile adaptations of Chaucer's CT, the domesticating of Froissart's Chroniques into English, and a coda on "digital avatars of medieval manuscripts" (with comments on the Canterbury Tales Project). The chapter on Chaucer explores the role of sentiment in children's versions of CT, from Mary Eliza Haweis's Chaucer for Children (1877) to the "decline of interest" in such versions in the 1930s.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
- Canterbury Tales--General