The Language of the Chaucer Tradition

The manuscript copies of Chaucers works preserve valuable information concerning Chaucers linguistic practices and the ways in which scribes responded to these. This book draws on recent developments in Middle English dialectology, textual criticism and the application of computers to manuscript studies to assess the evidence Chaucerian manuscripts provide for reconstructing Chaucers own language and his linguistic environment. This book considers how scribes, editors and Chaucerian poets transmitted and updated Chaucers language and the implications of this for our understanding of Chaucerian book production and reception, and the processes of linguistic change in the fifteenth century. Winner of the 2005 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590, Simon Horobin lectures on English language at the University of Glasgow.

About the author

Simon Horobin is Lecturer in English Language at the University of Glasgow.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Horobin
• Publisher: D. S. Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 462 g
• Series: Chaucer Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies