"Wyth her owen handys": What Women's Literacy Can Teach Us about Langland and Chaucer.

Description: Sketches "the mode of literacy" that "occupies a borderland just beyond the precincts of surviving evidence," exploring "the role of dictation" rather than "a sequence of errors in copying that stands between" versions of such texts as TC and "Piers Plowman. Includes comments on Adam Pinkhurst's role as Chaucer's scribe; the frontispiece to TC in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61; and the irregularity of final -e in Chaucerian manuscripts.