UID:
edocfu_9960117051402883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 213 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-280-54595-X
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1-84615-024-8
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9786610545957
Content:
The study of manuscripts is one of the most active areas of current research in medieval studies: manuscripts are the basic primary material evidence for literary scholars, historians and art-historians alike, and there has been an explosion of interest over the past twenty years. Manuscript study has developed enormously: codices are no longer treated as inert witnesses to a culture whose character has already been determined by the modern scholar, but are active participants in a process of exploration and discovery. The articles collected here discuss the future of this process and vital questions about manuscript study for tomorrow's explorers. They deal with codicology and book production, with textual criticism, with the material structure of the medieval book, with the relation of manuscripts to literary culture, to social history and to the medieval theatre, and with the importance to manuscript study of the emerging technology of computerised digitisation and hypertext display. The essays provide an end-of-millennium perspective on the most vigorous developments in a rapidly expanding field of study. Contributors: A.I. Doyle, C. David Benson, Martha W. Driver, J.P. Gumbert, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Linne R. Mooney, Eckehard Simon, Alison Stones, John Thompson. DEREK PEARSALL is former Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies, York, and Professor of English at Harvard University.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Introduction /
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Recent Directions in Medieval Manuscript Study /
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Another Fine Manuscript Mess: Authors, Editors and Readers of Piers Plowman /
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A New Approach to the Witnesses and Text of the Canterbury Tales /
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Prospecting in the Archives: Middle English Verse in Record Repositories /
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Medieval Manuscripts and Electronic Media: Observations on Future Possibilities /
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Representing the Middle English Manuscript /
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Skins, Sheets and Quires /
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Reconsidering the Auchinleck Manuscript /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-903153-01-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
DOI:
10.1515/9781846150241
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