Humanism, Reading, and English Literature 1430-1530
- Author / Editor
- Wakelin, Daniel.
Humanism, Reading, and English Literature 1430-1530
- Published
- Oxford: Oxford University Press,2007.
- Physical Description
- xi, 254 pp.
- Description
- Explores "reading habits" in fifteenth-century England and the extent to which they are part of the humanist movement, examining how manuscript glossing, responses, and other forms of commentary reflect philological, stylistic, and political attitudes that characterize humanism. Assesses reactions to Chaucer's Bo in manuscripts and Caxton's edition and comments on awareness of Chaucer's classicizing interests among fifteenth-century writers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Boece
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