Vernacular Authorship and the Control of Manuscript Production.
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Andrew.
Vernacular Authorship and the Control of Manuscript Production.
- Published
- Michael Johnston and Michael Van Dussen, eds. The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches (Cambridge- Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 199-214.
- Description
- Explores the "various degrees of control" exerted by medieval vernacular poets over the production of their manuscripts, maintaining that evidence from the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts indicates Chaucer "was clearly not moving expeditiously toward a complete, finished, and definitive version of his work."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies