Textual Copying and Transmission

Author / Editor
Da Rold, Orietta.

Title
Textual Copying and Transmission

Published
Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 33-56.

Description
Surveys textual practices in Old and Middle English literary culture, focusing on authorial anxieties about scribes, and comparing what is known and surmised about the texts of Ælfric's "Catholic Homilies" and Chaucer's CT.

Alternative Title
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Canterbury Tales--General