When Scribes Won't Write: Gaps in Middle English Books

Author / Editor
Wakelin, Daniel.

Title
When Scribes Won't Write: Gaps in Middle English Books

Published
SAC 36 (2014): 249-78

Description
Explores the "agency" of scribes and seeks to reconstruct their "thinking" by examining a number of instances where late medieval English vernacular scribes left gaps in manuscripts, focusing on examples where the ostensive goal is to maintain accuracy. Draws examples from various manuscripts, including several of CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Canterbury Tales--General