Chaucer''s Scribes - London Textual Production, 1384-1432

The importance of scribes in the production of Chaucer's poetry has become increasingly apparent. Challenging widely accepted narratives and conclusions of recent scholarship through meticulously detailed argument, Lawrence Warner delivers an important intervention in the field of Middle English studies.

List of contents

1. Adam; 2. The Pynkhurst canon; 3. Pynkhurst's London English and the dilemma of copy-text; 4. Looking for the scribe of Huntington Hm 114; 5. The Guildhall clerks; 6. Hoccleve's Hengwrt, Hoccleve's Holographs.

About the author

Lawrence Warner is Reader in Medieval English at King's College London. His previous publications include The Myth of 'Piers Plowman' (Cambridge, 2014), which won the English Association's 2016 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English Literature before 1590, and The Lost History of 'Piers Plowman' (2011), which received an Honorable Mention for the Society for Textual Scholarship's 2013 Richard J. Finneran Award.

Summary

The importance of scribes in the production of Chaucer's poetry has become increasingly apparent. Challenging widely accepted narratives and conclusions of recent scholarship through meticulously detailed argument, Lawrence Warner delivers an important intervention in the field of Middle English studies.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Warner, Lawrence (King''s College London) Warner, Warner Lawrence
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781108444996
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44499-6
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social & cultural history, CE period up to c 1500, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, History and Archaeology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval