Scraping, Scribing and Shriving: The Language of Writing, Judgement and Penitence in Chaucer's "Adam Scriveyn."
- Author / Editor
- Dwyer, Seamus.
Scraping, Scribing and Shriving: The Language of Writing, Judgement and Penitence in Chaucer's "Adam Scriveyn."
- Published
- Roman Bleier, Brian Coleman, and Clare Fletcher, eds. Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World (New York: Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 193-208.
- Description
- Surveys critical attention to Adam and reads the poem as an exhortation to "moral and professional penitence." Focuses on “corect,” “rubbe,” and “scrape” as scribal activities and as metaphorical links to penitential erasure in Chaucer and other works in Middle English.
- Alternative Title
- Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World
- Chaucer Subjects
- Adam Scriveyn
Language and Word Studies