Books and Booklessness in Chaucer's England.
- Author / Editor
- Gillespie, Alexandra.
Books and Booklessness in Chaucer's England.
- Published
- Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 81-97.
- Description
- Reassesses D. S. Brewer’s claim about the relative paucity of the book in the fourteenth century, suggesting instead that "in Chaucer's time, new technologies and new social circumstances were making it easier, faster, and cheaper to produce and transmit written text." The chapter examines some of those technologies and the books they produced.
- Alternative Title
- Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism