Immaterial texts in late medieval England : making English literary manuscripts, 1400-1500 /

Immaterial texts in late medieval England : making English literary manuscripts, 1400-1500 /

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Author / Creator:	Wakelin, Daniel, 1977- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York , NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Manuscripts, Medieval -- England. Manuscript design -- England -- History -- To 1500. Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- To 1500. Books -- England -- History -- 400-1450. Books -- England -- History -- 1450-1600. English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Manuscripts. English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Criticism, Textual. Scribes -- England. Transmission of texts -- England. English literature -- Middle English. English literature -- Middle English -- Manuscripts. Manuscript design. Manuscripts, Medieval. Scribes. Transmission of texts. England. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12775179

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ISBN:	9781009100588 1009100580 9781009113311 1009113313 9781009119313 9781009122290
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Daniel Wakelin introduces and reinterprets the misunderstood and overlooked craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes involved in making some of the most important manuscripts in late medieval English literature. In doing so he overturns how we view the role of scribes, showing how they ignored or concealed irregular and damaged parchment; ruled pages from habit and convention more than necessity; decorated the division of the text into pages or worried that it would harm reading; abandoned annotations to poetry, focusing on the poem itself; and copied English poems meticulously, in reverence for an abstract idea of the text. Scribes' interest in immaterial ideas and texts suggests their subtle thinking as craftspeople, in ways that contrast and extend current interpretations of late medieval literary culture, 'material texts' and the power of materials. For students, researchers and librarians, this book offers revelatory perspectives on the activities of late medieval scribes"--
Other form:	Online version: Wakelin, Daniel, 1977- Immaterial texts in late medieval England First edition. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York , NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781009119313

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