The Role of the Scribe: Genius of the Book.
- Author / Editor
- Rust, Martha.
The Role of the Scribe: Genius of the Book.
- Published
- Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 98-125.
- Description
- Uses the figure of Genius from Alan of Lille's "De planctu Naturae" to flesh out the role of the scribe for Chaucer and his works. Focuses on the role of the scribe not only in Chaucer's work and manuscripts, but also in contemporary scholarship, and claims that, similarly to Genius, “these scribes function at times as a mirror or other self of the author whose work they produce.”
- Alternative Title
- Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies