Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain

A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham. 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. LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford. Margaret Connolly is Professor of Palaeography and Codicology at the University of St. Andrews. PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, honorary professor at the University of Liverpool, was one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Older Scots. She edited The Poems of William Dunbar for the Association of Scottlish Literary Studies (1997/8), and The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas for the Scottish Text Society (revised 2003); she has written very widely and deeply on all aspects of Older Scots literature, includingher foundational study, Gavin Douglas (1976). IAN C. CUNNINGHAM, former Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, has published extensively on Latin and Older Scots manuscripts, and edited and translated Theophrastus R.F. YEAGER is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Language, University of West Florida. SUSANNA FEIN is Professor Emerita of English at Kent State University.

• Introduction - Tamara Atkin and Jaclyn RajsicGower's 'Epistle to Archbishop Arundel': The Evidence of Oxford, All Souls College, MS 98 - Robert F. YeagerFrom Oxford to Eton with Master John Maunshull: Teaching the Tria sunt in Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 707 - Martin CamargoGavin Douglas, Aesthetic Organisation, and Individual Distraction - Pamela M. KingGavin Douglas's Eneados: the 1553 Edition, and its Early Owners and Readers - Priscilla BawcuttCaxton and the Crown: The Evidence from the Exchequer of Receipt Reconsidered - Matthew PayneLate-Medieval Books of Hours and their Early-Tudor Readers in and Around London - Margaret ConnollyLondon, British Library, MS Harley 367 and the Antiquarian Ideals of John Stow - Joel GrossmanWriting Revelation: The Book of Margery Kempe - Corinne Saunders'What strange ruins': Reading Back to Thebes - Robert R. EdwardsTyre in Africa: Dido's Flight and Sallust's Jugurtha - Alfred HiattTrinitarian Piety and Married Chastity in The Pistel of Swete Susan - Susanna FeinTrue Image? Alternative Veronicas in Late Medieval England - Barry A WindeattThe cureless wound: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and the Poetry of Blood - Laura AsheAfterword - Derek PearsallJulia Boffey: A Bibliography - A S G Edwards

As the editors write, "For Julia, excellent scholarship is a conversation" (1), the essays collected in this volume are a testament to that ongoing conversation for scholars of varied subfields, methodologies, and interests.