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Echoes in the Margins: Reading the Dartmouth Brut in Early Modern England
- Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2014
- pp. 284-303
- 10.1353/dph.2014.0013
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This essay examines the annotations of three readers of the Dartmouth Brut. Each engaged the manuscript in different ways: the first had prior knowledge of its contents, the second used the text to teach himself English history, and the third mined the chronicle as a primary source for facts. Together, these readers provide insight into why a medieval chronicle—outdated in content and manuscript form—would continue to attract the attention of early modern readers.