Opening up Middle English manuscripts
Subtitle: literary and visual approaches
By: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Linda Olson and Maidie Hilmo
Contributors: Olson, Linda, 1962-; Hilmo, Maidie, 1942-
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780801450532
Subjects: Medieval Manuscripts; English literature; Manuscripts; English Paleography; Manuscripts, English (Middle)
Description: "This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts. It is intended for students and scholars who are familiar with some of the major Middle English literary works, such as The Canterbury Tales, Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, and the romances, mystical works or cycle plays, but who may not know much about the surviving manuscripts. The book approaches these texts in a way that takes into account the whole manuscript or codex--its textual and visual contents, physical state, readership, and cultural history. Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts also explores the function of illustrations in fashioning audience response to particular authors and their texts over the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.