Uncommon Readers?: The Paston Family and the Textual Cultures of Fifteenth-Century East Anglia.

Author / Editor
McDonald, Elizabeth Grace.

Title
Uncommon Readers?: The Paston Family and the Textual Cultures of Fifteenth-Century East Anglia.

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of East Anglia, 2018. 342 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International C81.06(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and via https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/72197/; accessed August 23, 2015.

Description
Includes discussion of Alice Chaucer's literary interests and patronage, literary involvement of her father (Thomas Chaucer), various manuscripts affiliated through common works (Chaucerian and otherwise), John Paston II's compilation and curation of London, British Library, MS Lansdowne 285, and the scribal work of William Ebesham. Also considers the reading and reception by the Pastons of works by Geoffrey Chaucer (with apocrypha) and John Lydgate.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Chaucerian Apocrypha