Stephen Partridge is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.Erik Kwakkel is a lecturer in the Institute for Cultural Disciplines at Leiden University.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Author, Reader, Book and Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice by Stephen Partridge The Trouble with Theology: Ethical Poetics and the Ends of Scripture by Alastair Minnis (Yale University)Wit, laughter and authority in Walter Map’s De nugis curialium (Courtiers’ trifles) by Sebastian Coxon (University College London)Late-Medieval Text Collections: A Codicological Typology Based on Single-Author Manuscripts by Erik KwakkelThe Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context by Anita Obermeier (University of New Mexico)‘The Makere of this Boke’: Chaucer’s ‘Retraction’ and the Author as Scribe and Compiler by Stephen PartridgeReading for Authority: Portraits of Christine de Pizan and Her Readers by Deborah McGrady (University of Virginia)Vernacular Auctoritas in Late Medieval England: Writing After the Constitutions by Kirsty Campbell (Bishop's University)Master Henryson and Father Aesop by Ian Higgins (University of Victoria)Erasmus’ Lucubrationes: Genesis of a Literary Oeuvre by Mark Vessey (University of British Columbia)BibliographyNotes on ContributorsList of Illustrations

‘The wide-ranging scope of this collection is one of the greatest attributes… A valuable interdisciplinary contribution to the study of authorship and the book during the Middle Ages that would be of interest to both literary scholars and book historians.’ - Sarah Noonan (Review of English Studies, vol 64:266:2013) ‘This is an excellent volume… A very useful contribution to the growing (and much needed) debate on medieval authorship.’ - Cristian Bratu (Mediavistik vol 25:2012) ‘A rich and stimulating collection of essays whose workshop roots are evident in helpful cross-references as well as subtler forms of response and exchange among the individual contributors.’ - Anne Mctaggart (Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada; vol 51:1:2013)