Reading English Verse in Manuscript c. 1350-c. 1500.
- Author / Editor
- Sawyer, Daniel.
Reading English Verse in Manuscript c. 1350-c. 1500.
- Published
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Physical Description
- ix, 208 pp.
- Description
- Studies medieval reading of verse manuscripts and includes analysis of canonical Middle English verse texts, such as works by Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate, as well as lesser-known fourteenth-century northern religious manuscripts. Argues that these texts "influenced the structures and rhymes" of canonical texts in the fifteenth century. Discusses CT, BD, and TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Style and Versification
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Book of the Duchess
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General