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Author:   Kathryn Kerby-Fulton ,  Maidie Hilmo ,  Linda Olson
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 30.50cm
Weight:   1.814kg
ISBN:  

9780801478307

ISBN 10:   0801478308
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   15 September 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Glossary of Key Manuscript Terminology Note on Transcriptions and Transcription Symbols THE FRONT PLATES: Transcriptions, Scripts, and Descriptive Analysis for Learning to Read Literary Texts on the Manuscript Page How to Transcribe Middle English / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton -Bare Essentials 1: A Transcription Is Not an Edition Introduction: The Order of the Plates and Scripts Most Commonly Found in Middle English Literary Texts / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton 1. The Land of Cokaygne (British Library, ms Harley 913) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton 2. ""Ihesu Swete"" (Newberry Library, MS 31) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton 3. The Pricke of Conscience (Newberry Library, MS 32.9) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton 4. Chaucer's ""Cook's Tale"" (Hg) (National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 392D, Hengwrt MS 154) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton 5. Chaucer's ""Cook's Tale"" (Cp) (Corpus Christi College, MS 198) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton 6. Omnis plantacio (formerly The Clergy May Not Hold Property) (Huntington Library, MS HM 503) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton 7. Hoccleve 's ""Chanceon to Somer"" and Envoy to Regiment des Princes (Huntington Library, MS HM 111) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton 8. Langland, Piers Plowman (Bodleian Library, MS Douce 104) / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton 9. Sir Degrevant (Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6, Findern MS) / Linda Olson 10. Wisdom (Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.354, Macro MS) / Linda Olson Chapter 1. Major Middle English Poets and Manuscript Studies, 1300-1450 / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton A Brief Overview of Topics Covered in This Chapter I. BL MS Arundel 292, Archaism, and the Preservation of Alliterative Poetry c. 1300-c. 1450 II. BL MS Harley 2253 and Principles of Compilatio, or: Why Read the Harley Lyrics in their Natural Habitat? -Bare Essentials 2: Anglicana Script and Profiling the Individual Scribe III. Gawain and the Medieval Reader: The Importance of Manuscript Ordinatio in a Poem We Think We Know -Bare Essentials 3: Assessing Emendation in a Modern Edition IV. The Rise of English Book Production in Ricardian London: Professional Scribes and Langland's Piers Plowman -Bare Essentials 4: Some Basic Concepts of Editing, Types of Written Standard Middle English, and Scribal Handling of Dialect V. Some of the Earliest Attempts to Assemble the Canterbury Tales VI. The Scribe Speaks at Last: Hoccleve as Scribe E Chapter 2. Romancing the Book: Manuscripts for ""Euerich Inglische"" / Linda Olson -Middle English Romances in the Auchinleck, Thornton, and Findern Manuscripts I. Englishing Romance: The Auchinleck Manuscript II. Romancing the Gentry Household: Robert Thornton's Homemade Family Library -Thornton Names in the Lincoln and London Manuscripts III. Courting Romance in the Provinces: The Findern Manuscript Chapter 3. The Power of Images in the Auchinleck, Vernon, Pearl, and Two Piers Plowman Manuscripts / Maidie Hilmo I. Looking at Medieval Images II. The Auchinleck Manuscript III. The Vernon Manuscript IV. The Pearl Manuscript V. Two Piers Plowman Manuscripts and the Ushaw Prick of Conscience VI. Conclusion Chapter 4. Professional Readers at Work: Annotators, Editors, and Correctors in Middle English Literary Texts / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton I. Categories of Marginalia: The Annotating and Glossing of Chaucer II. The Annotations in Manuscripts of Langland's Piers Plowman III. Annotations and Corrections in the Book of Margery Kempe: Cruxes, Controversies, and Solutions -Appendix on the Red Ink Annotator and Previous Annotators in BL MS Add. 61823 IV. The Quiet Connoisseur: The First Annotator(s) of Julian of Norwich's Showings in the Amherst Manuscript (British Library, MS Add. 37790) Chapter 5. Illuminating Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Portraits of the Author and Selected Pilgrim Authors / Maidie Hilmo I. Introduction II. The Decoration and Borders of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere Manuscripts III. The Historiated Initial with an Author Portrait: A Further Development of the Hengwrt Tradition IV. The Ellesmere Traditions: Illustrated Pilgrim Authors V. Conclusion Chapter 6. ""Swete Cordyall"" of ""Lytterature"": Some Middle English Manuscripts from the Cloister / Linda Olson I. Nourishing the Spirit of Religious Women: Vernacular Texts and Manuscripts II. Monastic Manuscripts of Chaucer: Literary Excellence under Religious Rule -The Contents of London, British Library, MS Harley 7333 III. Lots of Lydgate and a Little Hoccleve: Chaucer's Successors in Monastic Hands IV. ""Sadde Mete"" for Mind and Soul: Contemplative and Visionary Texts in the Cloister V. Taking it to the Streets: Middle English Drama from the Cloister References Cited Illustration Credits Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula General Index"

Reviews

<p> Manuscript studies has recently come into its own and this book will find an eager audience among both new and established scholars. Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts is all inclusive, advancing new knowledge about how manuscripts should be read while providing basic skills in Middle English paleography and codicology. The writing is clear, compelling, and concise, and the authors have chosen excellent images to complement their text. -Raymond Clemens, Illinois State University, coauthor of Introduction to Manuscript Studies

. . . for undergraduate teachers like myself who have struggled to bring codicology into the classroom, this book is a gift. . . . the authors do an excellent job of building characters around the shadowy figures of scribes, compilers, illuminators, binders, rubricators and annotators, explaining their impact on literature. . . . Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts does an excellent job of. . .working to break down barriers between manuscript, print and digital cultures as well as distinctions between medieval and contemporary, author and reader, student and specialist, and elite (i.e. manuscript-holding) and non-elite institutions. Janine Rogers, Review of English Studies (Feb 2014)

Author Information

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton is The Notre Dame Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author most recently of Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England, which won the Haskins Medal from the Medieval Academy of America. She is coeditor with Maidie Hilmo of The Medieval Professional Reader at Work: Evidence from Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and Gower and The Medieval Reader: Reception and Cultural History in the Late Medieval Manuscript and coeditor with Linda Olson of Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages. Maidie Hilmo, an affiliate of the University of Victoria, is the author most recently of Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts: From the Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer. She is coeditor with Kathryn Kerby-Fulton of The Medieval Professional Reader at Work: Evidence from Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and Gower and The Medieval Reader: Reception and Cultural History in the Late Medieval Manuscript. Linda Olson is a writer and developer of distance education courses in English literature for the Open Learning Program at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia. She is the coeditor with Kathryn Kerby-Fulton of Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages.

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