Texts, Textual Criticism, and Fifteenth Century Manuscript Production
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, Derek.
Texts, Textual Criticism, and Fifteenth Century Manuscript Production
- Published
- Robert F. Yeager, ed. Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1984), pp. 121-36.
- Description
- Argues that manuscripts ignored by editors "often deserve far more than the total neglect" they receive, drawing examples from manuscripts of Chaucer and Langland, including a number of cruces from manuscripts of Chaucer's CT and TC. Comments on stemmata construction, meter, the principle of "lectio difficilior," and the value of reading a poem in its manuscript contexts.
- Alternative Title
- Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
- Style and Versification