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- New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
summary
This volume gathers the contributions of senior and junior scholars—all indebted to the pathbreaking work of Derek Pearsall—to showcase new research prompted by his rich and ongoing legacy as a literary critic, editor, and seminal founder of Middle English manuscript studies. The contributors aim both to honor Pearsall’s work in the field he established and to introduce the complexities of interdisciplinary manuscript studies to students already familiar with medieval literature. The contributors explore a range of issues, from the study of medieval literary manuscripts to the history of medieval books, libraries, literacy, censorship, and the social classes who used the books and manuscripts—nobles, children, schoolmasters, priests, merchants, and more. In addressing reading practices, essays provide a wealth of information on marginal commentaries, images and interpretive methods, international transmission, and early print and editorial methods.
Table of Contents
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- Frontispiece, Title page, Copyright
- pp. ii-vi
- About the Conway Conferences
- pp. v-vi
- List of Illustrations
- pp. xi-xvi
- A Brief Biographical Sketch of Derek Pearsall
- pp. xxi-xxii
- Chapter 20: Hoccleve in Canterbury
- pp. 406-424
- Contributors
- pp. 516-517
- Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula
- pp. 518-523
- General Index
- pp. 524-552
Additional Information
ISBN
9780268084622
Related ISBN(s)
9780268033279
MARC Record
OCLC
895270659
Pages
532
Launched on MUSE
2014-11-13
Language
English
Open Access
No