Patient Reading/Reading Patience

Oxford Essays on Medieval English Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Av Ralph Hanna

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This volume brings together a variety of studies, some reprinted, some new; all are devoted to the literate culture of the English later Middle Ages. The studies hover about four foci: normative English polylingualism (across three grammatically distinct languages); the messiness and discontinuities of medieval manuscript production; drawing conclusions about historical audiences/literary communities on the basis of book-evidence; and finally, the Middle English poem Piers Plowman. In general, although all the essays here arrive at broad conclusions, their point is other. The essays exemplify methods of study, the identification of problems and the recognition of tools appropriate or helpful in addressing them. Perhaps particularly the volume gestures toward a range of skills appropriate for the task; these range from narrow observation of book-production techniques to bringing a local historical record to bear on an individual volume or group of them.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-11-01
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieExeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Antal sidor384
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781789628081

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Ralph Hanna is Professor of Palaeography (Emeritus) and Emeritus Fellow at Keble College, Oxford. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow, former Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute (Harvard University), and winner of the British Academy Sir Israel Gollancz Prize for English Language 2015. His many books with Liverpool University Press include John Ridewall, Fulgentius metaforalis (2023), Looking at Medieval Books: Learning to See (2023), Robert Holcot, exegete (2021) and Malachy the Irishman, On Poison (2020).

Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction [I] Language Barriers 1. Literacy, Schooling, Universities 2.Vernacular Exegesis in Fourteenth-Century England? 3.Lambeth Palace Library, MS 260 and the Problem of English Vernacularity 4.Editing 'Middle English Lyrics': The Case of Candet nudatum pectus 5.Performing Exegesis: Lyric and Sermon in Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.6.26 [II] Nasty Books: Collection Procedures 6.Lambeth Palace Library, MS 487: Some Problems of Early Thirteenth-Century Textual Transmission 7.Producing Magdalen College MS lat. 93 8.A Fifteenth-Century Vernacular Miscellany Revisited 9.Humphrey Newton and Bodleian Library, MS Lat. misc. c.66 [III] Historicising the Archive 10.Yorkshire Writers 11.Some North Yorkshire Scribes and Their Context 12.Dr Peter Partridge and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 98 13.John of Wales and 'Classicising Friars' [IV] Still Harping On – Reading(:) Patience in Piers PlowmanAn Ideological Prequel Prologue: Langland's Kind of Poetry1. On Patience2. Conscience's Dinner3. Hawkin and Patience's Instruction4. The C Version RevisionsBibliographyIndex

‘Patient Reading constitutes a majorcontribution to book history. It also offers a sustained reflection on thereading practices that might best illuminate medieval texts […] Patient Reading presents a richcompendium of material, the fruit of Hanna’s own “patient . . . absorption” inthe medieval archive (8). It also makes some stimulating and consequentialclaims about the creative, polylingual, exegetical practices that gave shape tomedieval sermons and to medieval poems.’Alastair Bennett, ModernPhilology