Middle English Manuscripts and Readers

Author / Editor
Hanna, Ralph.

Title
Middle English Manuscripts and Readers

Published
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry ((Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 196-215.

Description
Hanna discusses late medieval English "textual culture," commenting on the production and disposition of manuscripts, habits of collecting and anthologizing individual works, the vagaries of manuscript survival, reading practices, etc. Cites examples from Chaucer's work often, including comments on a facsimile leaf of TC (Cambridge, St. John's College, MS L.1, fol. 6v).

Alternative Title
A Companion to Medieval Poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.