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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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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.

Table of Contents:
1. Prologue: materials, making and manuscripts; 2. 'Hele alle maner of schabbis': imagining perfect parchment; 3. 'Who by prudence Rule him shal': controlling the layout; 4. 'Þe leef torned': turning beyond the page; 5. 'Rede . . . and ʒe may se': reading plain text; 6. 'This is the copy': reproducing the immaterial; 7. Conclusions: more than materials.

About the Author :
Daniel Wakelin is Jeremy Griffiths Professor of Medieval English Palaeography at the University of Oxford. He is the author and editor of books including Scribal Correction and Literary Craft (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and Designing English (2017). He is also joint-winner of the 2015 SHARP De Long Prize in Book History.

Review :
'The author's ability to identify strikingly anomalous details across this sprawling body of material is impressive.' A. S. G. Edwards, Times LIterary Supplement 'Immaterial Text is, in the best sense, a provocation that will prompt a new kind of attention to the English literary manuscript.' Sonja Drimmer, Studies in the Age of Chaucer '… deserves notice from Chaucerians, codicologists, and cultural historians.' Eric Weiskott, Speculum


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781009100588
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 300
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 625 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1009100580
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jun 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Making English Literary Manuscripts, 1400–1500
  • Width: 157 mm


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