Author, Scribe, and Curse: The Genre of 'Adam Scriveyn'
- Author / Editor
- Olson, Glending.
Author, Scribe, and Curse: The Genre of 'Adam Scriveyn'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 42 (2008): 284-97.
- Description
- Reading Adam as a specimen of the genre of book curses reveals a tension in Adam between the incipient humanist idea of the author, "whose inventions transcend their scribal incarnations," and the reality in late medieval London of authors' dependence on an increasingly professionalized and hence powerful cadre of scribes.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Adam Scriveyn
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies