Makers and Users of Medieval Books
Essays in Honour of A.S.G. Edwards
Published on 19. June 2014
Book
Hardback
275 pages
978-1-84384-375-7 (ISBN)
Description
Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture.
Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland, Chaucer and Nicholas Love. It thus pays a fitting tribute to the career of Professor A.S.G. Edwards, highlighting his scholarly interests and demonstrating the influence of his achievements.
Carol M. Meale is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol; the late Derek Pearsall was Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of York.
Contributors: Nicolas Barker, J.A. Burrow, A.I. Doyle, Martha W. Driver, Susanna Fein, Jane Griffiths, Lotte Hellinga, Alfred Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Richard Linenthal,Carol M. Meale, Orietta Da Rold, John Scattergood, Kathleen L. Scott, Toshiyuki Takamiya, John J. Thompson.
Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland, Chaucer and Nicholas Love. It thus pays a fitting tribute to the career of Professor A.S.G. Edwards, highlighting his scholarly interests and demonstrating the influence of his achievements.
Carol M. Meale is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol; the late Derek Pearsall was Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of York.
Contributors: Nicolas Barker, J.A. Burrow, A.I. Doyle, Martha W. Driver, Susanna Fein, Jane Griffiths, Lotte Hellinga, Alfred Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Richard Linenthal,Carol M. Meale, Orietta Da Rold, John Scattergood, Kathleen L. Scott, Toshiyuki Takamiya, John J. Thompson.
Reviews / Votes
[O]ffers a compendium of much of the research going on in Middle English manuscript and bibliographical studies and will be invaluable to scholars at all levels. * JEGP * These essays bring new findings to the table and deserve to be widely read by students of medieval books. * ARCHIV * An excellent volume that everyone working in early book studies will want to read, and from which those who do not normally engage with manuscript and print studies would learn a great deal. * JOURNAL OF THE EDINBURGH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY * [The essays] are generous, rigorous, richly detailed and replete with fascinating discoveries about medieval books. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT * It is precisely this sort of research that can offer clinching evidence for arguments about premodern books and the texts contained in them. It is vital that there remains a publishing space for this level of evidence. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
36 s/w Abbildungen
36 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84384-375-7 (9781843843757)
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Persons
The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman. JOHN SCATTERGOOD is Professor (Emeritus) of Medieval and Renaissance English at Trinity College, Dublin.
Content
Foreword
Winning and Wasting in Wynnere and Wastoure and Piers Plowman - John A. Burrow
The Reference Work in the Fifteenth Century: John Whethamstede's Granarium - Alfred Hiatt
Pageants Reconsidered - Martha W. Driver
Codicology, Localization and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 108 - Orietta Da Rold
The Fillers of the Auchinleck Manuscript and the Literary Culture of the West Midlands - Susanna Fein
Tanner 190 Revisited - Nicolas Barker
Early Printed Continental Books owned in England: Some Examples in the Takamiya Collection - Toshiyuki Takamiya
Early Printed Continental Books owned in England: Some Examples in the Takamiya Collection - Richard Linenthal
The Two Issues of More's Book against Luther - A I Doyle
Trinity College MS 516: A Clerical Historian's Personal Miscellany - John Scattergood
Katherine de la Pole and East Anglian Manuscript Production in the Fifteenth Century: An Unrecognized Patron? - Carol Meale
Past Ownership: Evidence of Book Ownership by English Merchants in the Later Middle Ages - Kathleen Scott
From Poggio to Caxton: Early Translations of some of Poggio's Latin Facetiae - Lotte Hellinga
Love in the 1530s - John J. Thompson
Editorial Glossing and Reader Resistance in a Copy of Robert Crowley's Piers Plowman - Jane Griffiths
Beaupre Bell and the Editing of Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century - Simon Horobin
A. S. G. Edwards: List of Publications
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
Tabula Gratulatoria
Winning and Wasting in Wynnere and Wastoure and Piers Plowman - John A. Burrow
The Reference Work in the Fifteenth Century: John Whethamstede's Granarium - Alfred Hiatt
Pageants Reconsidered - Martha W. Driver
Codicology, Localization and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 108 - Orietta Da Rold
The Fillers of the Auchinleck Manuscript and the Literary Culture of the West Midlands - Susanna Fein
Tanner 190 Revisited - Nicolas Barker
Early Printed Continental Books owned in England: Some Examples in the Takamiya Collection - Toshiyuki Takamiya
Early Printed Continental Books owned in England: Some Examples in the Takamiya Collection - Richard Linenthal
The Two Issues of More's Book against Luther - A I Doyle
Trinity College MS 516: A Clerical Historian's Personal Miscellany - John Scattergood
Katherine de la Pole and East Anglian Manuscript Production in the Fifteenth Century: An Unrecognized Patron? - Carol Meale
Past Ownership: Evidence of Book Ownership by English Merchants in the Later Middle Ages - Kathleen Scott
From Poggio to Caxton: Early Translations of some of Poggio's Latin Facetiae - Lotte Hellinga
Love in the 1530s - John J. Thompson
Editorial Glossing and Reader Resistance in a Copy of Robert Crowley's Piers Plowman - Jane Griffiths
Beaupre Bell and the Editing of Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century - Simon Horobin
A. S. G. Edwards: List of Publications
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
Tabula Gratulatoria