Pursuing History Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts

"Ralph Hanna has no peer in Middle English textual studies. . . . This is a wholly original and exciting work, unlike any other available from any book or scholar I know of."--Anne Middleton, University of California, Berkeley
"This book is important and valuable for many kinds of readers. . . . Hanna challenges us to participate in the textual mapping of manuscript culture in England before Chaucer was canonized as the center. . . . The volume also has tremendous potential for introducing our students to manuscript culture."--Envoi

About the author

Ralph Hanna, III, is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. As the reports make clear, he is a leading authority on Middle English manuscripts.

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Hanna
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.08.1996
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9780804726139
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-2613-9
• Pages: 376
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm
• Weight (packing): 712 g
• Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Cult
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism