Crafting Text Languages: Spelling Systems in Manuscripts of the "Man of Law's Tale" as a Means of Construing Scribal Community of Practice.

Author / Editor
Rogos, Justyna.

Title
Crafting Text Languages: Spelling Systems in Manuscripts of the "Man of Law's Tale" as a Means of Construing Scribal Community of Practice.

Published
Joanna Kopaczyk and Andrea H. Jucker, eds. Communities of Practice in the History of English (Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2013), pp. 105-21.

Description
Explores the "shared practice" of late-medieval English scribes, particularly their adherence to "a negotiated set of norms and procedures" that constitutes their "community of practice." Exemplifies such practice by describing the orthography and abbreviations used in the "d"-group of ten manuscripts of MLT.

Contributor
Kopaczyk, Joanna, ed.
Jucker, Andrea J, ed.

Alternative Title
Communities of Practice in the History of English.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Man of Law and His Tale