Middle English Poetry

A wide range of poets is covered - Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, the 'Gawain' poet, Langland, and Lydgate, along with the translator of Claudian's 'De Consulatu Stilichonis'. The 'Turnament of Totenham' is read in terms of theory of the carnivalesque and popular culture, and major contributions are made to current linguistic, editorial and codicological controversies. Going beyond the Middle Ages, the book also considers the sixteenth-century reception of Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women' and Post-Reformation reading of Lydgate. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the production and transmission of medieval literature, and in the early formation of the canon of English poetry. Contributors: JULIA BOFFEY, J.A. BURROW, CHRISTOPHER CANNON, MARTHA DRIVER, SIAN ECHARD, A.S.G. EDWARDS, KATE D. HARRIS, S.S. HUSSEY, KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON, CAROL M. MEALE, LINNE R. MOONEY, CHARLOTTE C. MORSE, V.I.J. SCATTERGOOD, ELIZABETH SOLOPOVA, ESTELLE STUBBS, JOHN THOMPSON.

ISBN 1903153093   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9781903153093 (What's this?)   Co_publisher York Medieval Press Publisher York Medieval Press   Weight (grammes) 631 Imprint York Medieval Press   Published in York Format Hardback   Series ISSN 0955-966 Publication date 06 Sep 2001   Series title York Manuscripts Conferences Non-book description xv, 304 p. :   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress 2001017888   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 821.109   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 324

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		Preface
		Abbreviations
		The Unchangeable Word: The Dating of Manuscripts and the History of English by Christopher Cannon		1
		Clare Priory, the London Austin Friars and Manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Estelle Stubbs		17
		The Survival of Chaucer's Punctuation in the Early Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales by Elizabeth Solopova		27
		What the Clerk's Tale suggests about Manly and Rickert's Edition - and the Canterbury Tales Project by Charlotte C. Morse		41
		Dialogues and Monologues: Manuscript Representations of the Conversation of the Confessio Amantis by Sian Echard		57
		The Longleat House Extracted Manuscript of Gower's Confessio Amantis by Kate Harris		77
		'Iste liber constat Johanni Mascy': Dublin, Trinity College, MS 155 by John Scattergood		91
		Romance and its Anti-Type? The Turnament of Totenham, the Carnivalesque, and Popular Culture by Carol M. Meale		103
		Langland the Outsider by S. S. Hussey		129
		Langland 'in his Working Clothes'?: Scribe D, Authorial Loose Revision Material, and the Nature of Scribal Intervention by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton		139
		Scribal Mismetring by J. A. Burrow		169
		Reading Lydgate in Post-Reformation England by John J. Thompson		181
		Medievalizing the Classical Past in Pierpont Morgan MS M 876 by Martha W. Driver		211
		Scribes and Booklets of Trinity College, Cambridge, Manuscripts R.3.19 and R.3.21 by Linne R. Mooney		241
		The Middle English Translation of Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis by A. S. G. Edwards		267
		'Twenty thousand more': Some Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Responses to The Legend of Good Women by Julia Boffey		279
		Index of Manuscripts		298
		Select Index of Names and Titles		301

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