Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England: Making English Literary Manuscripts, 1400–1500.
- Author / Editor
- Wakelin, Daniel.
Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England: Making English Literary Manuscripts, 1400–1500.
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 284 pp.; 19 illus.
- Description
- Investigates how the practices of fifteenth-century scribes of manuscripts of English poetry and prose--particularly CT manuscripts, and works by Lydgate and Hoccleve--reveal "traces of immaterial traditions, intentions, assumptions, activities and performances." Uses hylomorphic "craft" theory to argue that copying was a way of thinking about books and literature, shaped by scribal conditions, and evident in layout, surface repairing, ruling, paginating, illustrating, and replicating manuscripts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies