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Essays in Honour of A.S.G. Edwards

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-06-19
Mått156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor275
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9781843843757

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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. SUSANNA FEIN is Professor Emerita of English at Kent State University.

ForewordWinning and Wasting in Wynnere and Wastoure and Piers Plowman - John A. BurrowThe Reference Work in the Fifteenth Century: John Whethamstede's Granarium - Alfred HiattPageants Reconsidered - Martha W. DriverCodicology, Localization and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 108 - Orietta Da RoldThe Fillers of the Auchinleck Manuscript and the Literary Culture of the West Midlands - Susanna FeinTanner 190 Revisited - Nicolas BarkerEarly Printed Continental Books owned in England: Some Examples in the Takamiya Collection - Toshiyuki TakamiyaEarly Printed Continental Books owned in England: Some Examples in the Takamiya Collection - Richard LinenthalThe Two Issues of More's Book against Luther - A I DoyleTrinity College MS 516: A Clerical Historian's Personal Miscellany - John ScattergoodKatherine de la Pole and East Anglian Manuscript Production in the Fifteenth Century: An Unrecognized Patron? - Carol MealePast Ownership: Evidence of Book Ownership by English Merchants in the Later Middle Ages - Kathleen ScottFrom Poggio to Caxton: Early Translations of some of Poggio's Latin Facetiae - Lotte HellingaLove in the 1530s - John J. ThompsonEditorial Glossing and Reader Resistance in a Copy of Robert Crowley's Piers Plowman - Jane GriffithsBeaupré Bell and the Editing of Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century - Simon HorobinA. S. G. Edwards: List of PublicationsIndex of ManuscriptsGeneral IndexTabula Gratulatoria