Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England - Essays in Honour of Linne R. Mooney

Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.

List of contents

Introduction -- Margaret Connolly
I: International Perspectives
How English is it? -- Martha W. Driver
Middle Hiberno-English Poetry and the Nascent Bureaucratic Literary Culture of Ireland -- Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
II: Identities and Localities
Famous Scribe, Unrecognised Stint -- Ralph Hanna
The Handwriting of Fifteenth-Century Signet Clerks and the King's French Secretaries -- Sebastian Sobecki
Seeking Scribal Communities in Medieval London -- Estelle V. Stubbs

Scribes and Booklets: The 'Trinity Anthologies' Reconsidered -- Holly James-Maddocks
III: Scribal Production
Some Codicological Observations on Manuscripts of Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection -- Michael G. Sargent
The First Emergence of the Ricardian Confessio: Morgan 690 -- Joel Fredell
The Anonymous 'Kings of England' and the Significance of its Material Form -- Margaret Connolly
John Benet, Scribe and Compiler, and Dublin, Trinity College, MS 516 -- Wendy Scase
The Founders' Book of Tewkesbury Abbey (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Top. Glouc. D. 2): Scripts and Transcripts --Susan Powell
IV: Chaucerian ContextsWhen is a 'Canterbury Tales Manuscript' not Just a Canterbury Tales Manuscript? -- Daniel W. Mosser
Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.15 and the Circulation of Chaucerian Manuscripts in the Sixteenth Century -- Simon Horobin
Afterword: A Personal Tribute -- Derek Pearsall
Linne R. Mooney: List of Publications -- Daryl Green

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Connolly, Martha W. Driver, Holly James-Maddocks, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Derek Pearsall
• Assisted by: Margaret Connolly (Editor), Holly James-Maddocks (Editor), Derek Pearsall (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English, Middle (1100-1500)
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781843845751
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-575-1
• No. of pages: 388
• Dimensions: 246 mm x 177 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 1014 g
• Series: Manuscript Culture in the Brit; York Manuscript and Early Prin; York Manuscript and Early Print Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries