When Scribes Won't Write: Gaps in Middle English Books
- Author / Editor
- Wakelin, Daniel.
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