The Nature of Material Evidence.
- Author / Editor
- Horobin, Simon.
The Nature of Material Evidence.
- Published
- Tim William Machan, ed. Imagining Medieval English: Language Structures and Theories, 500–1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 147-65.
- Description
- Considers how manuscript evidence informs our understanding of Middle English, addressing the value of autograph manuscripts and personal letters, the process of standardization, and the importance of sociolinguistics. Includes analysis of the habits of Chaucer scribes Geoffrey Spirleng and Adam Pinkhurst and maintains that, generally, when "copying Chaucer, scribes tended to preserve older London forms associated with Chaucer's own usage."
- Alternative Title
- Imagining Medieval English: Language Structures and Theories, 500–1500
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Language and Word Studies