The Professionalization of Writing

Author / Editor
Horobin, Simon.

Title
The Professionalization of Writing

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. 57-67.

Description
Horobin surveys "complex and contradictory" evidence for the professionalization of writing in England in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with comments on Chaucer's scribes (including Adam Pinkhurst), Thomas Hoccleve, and others.

Alternative Title
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.