Scraping, Scribing and Shriving: The Language of Writing, Judgement and Penitence in Chaucer's "Adam Scriveyn."

Author / Editor
Dwyer, Seamus.

Title
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