Vernacular Engravings in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Bourgne, Florence.
Vernacular Engravings in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec, eds. Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England (New York: Plagrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 115-36.
- Description
- Vernacular authors anxious about the fragility of texts due to the impermanence of the medium and scribal transmission called attention in their writing to forms of engraving in stone and wax. As writing habits changed, the depiction of writing implements also changed. Mentions Chaucer's depiction of a poyntel in Bo and his anxieties about textual and scribal transmission in TC and Adam.
- Alternative Title
- Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
- Boece
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Adam Scriveyn