Essays in manuscript geography
Subtitle: vernacular manuscripts of the English West Midlands from the Conquest to the sixteenth century
By: edited by Wendy Scase.
Contributors: Scase, Wendy.
Series: Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe -- v. 10; Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe -- 10.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9782503516950
Subjects: British Library.; Manuscripts, English (Middle) -- England -- West Midlands -- History.; Manuscripts, English (Old) -- England -- West Midlands -- History.; Manuscripts, English -- History -- To 1500.; Manuscripts, Medieval -- England -- History.; Manuscripts, Medieval -- England -- West Midlands -- History.; Books -- England -- History -- 400-1450.; Books and reading -- England -- West Midlands -- History.; Books and reading -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Manuscript preparation (Authorship) -- England -- West Midlands -- History.; West Midlands (England) -- Intellectual life.
Other titles: Vernacular manuscripts of the English West Midlands from the Conquest to the sixteenth century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Bishops and their texts in the later eleventh century : Worcester and Exeter / Elaine Treharne; value: Mobile libraries : Old English manuscript production in Worcester and the West Midlands, 1090-1215 / Mary Swan; value: The pastoral context of the Trinity and Lambeth homilies / Bella Millett; value: Compilation and purpose in MS Harley 2253 / Susanna Fein; value: Oppositional thematics and metanarrative in MS Harley 2253, quires 1-6 / Carter Revard; value: Mapping points west of West Midlands manuscripts and texts : Irishness(es) and Midle English literary culture / John J. Thompson; value: The Clopton manuscript and the Beauchamp affinity : patronage and reception issues in a West Midlands reading community / Ryan Perry; value: Inventing visual history : re-presenting the legends of Warwickshire / Martha W. Driver; value: Owners and copyists of John Rous's armorial rolls / David Griffith; value: The manuscripts of the West Midlands Catalogue Project / Rebecca Farnham; value: Middle English romance and the West Midlands / Alison Wiggins; value: Fingerprinting paper in West Midlands medieval manuscripts / Orietta Da Rold.