'Swete Cordyall' of 'Lytterature': Some Middle English Manuscripts from the Cloister
- Author / Editor
- Olson, Linda.
'Swete Cordyall' of 'Lytterature': Some Middle English Manuscripts from the Cloister
- Published
- Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson, eds. Opening up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012), pp. 291-354.
- Description
- Discusses monastic libraries and scribal communities where texts could be "copied and translated without repercussions behind the monastic walls of England." Also reveals how demand for vernacular writing increased in female convents. Section 2, "Monastic Manuscripts of Chaucer: Literary Excellence under Religious Rule," links Chaucer's works, including PF, Astr, Bo, and CT, to Augustinian, Benedictine, and Carthusian monastery collections, and to "the nuns of Syon."
- Alternative Title
- Opening up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Parliament of Fowls
- Treatise on the Astrolabe
- Boece