Manuscript and print in late medieval and early modern Britain : essays in honour of Professor Julia Boffey /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2019.
©2019
Description:x, 291 pages ; 25 cm
Language:English
Subject:Manuscripts, English -- History -- 15th century.
Manuscripts, English -- History -- 16th century.
Early printed books -- Great Britain.
Books -- Great Britain -- History -- 1450-1600.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11894763
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Atkin, Tamara, 1981- editor.
Rajsic, Jaclyn, 1984- editor.
ISBN:9781843845317
1843845318
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:The production, transmission, and reception of texts from England and beyond during the late medieval and early renaissance periods are the focus of this volume. Chapters consider the archives and the material contexts in which texts were produced, read, and re-read; the history of specific manuscripts and early printed books; and some of the continuities and changes in literary and book production, dissemination, and reception in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Responding to Professor Julia Boffey's pioneering work on medieval and early Tudor material and literary culture, they cover a range of genres - from practical texts written in Latin to works of Middle English poetry and prose, both secular and religious - and examine an assortment of different reading contexts: lay, devotional, local, regional, and national. -- Back cover.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Producing Texts
  • 1. Gower's 'Epistle to Archbishop Arundel': The Evidence of Oxford, All Souls College, MS 98
  • 2. From Oxford to Eton with Master John Maunshull: Teaching the Tria sunt in Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 707
  • 3. Gavin Douglas, Aesthetic Organization and Individual Distraction
  • 4. Gavin Douglas's Eneados: The 1553 Edition and its Early Owners and Readers
  • 5. Caxton and the Crown: The Evidence from the Exchequer of Receipt Reconsidered
  • 6. Late Medieval Books of Hours and Their Early Tudor Readers In and Around London
  • 7. London, British Library, MS Harley 367 and the Antiquarian Ideals of John Stow
  • Reading Influence
  • 8. Writing Revelation: The Book of Margery Kempe
  • 9. 'What strange ruins': Reading Back to Thebes
  • 10. Tyre in Africa: Dido's Flight and Sallust's Jugurtha
  • 11. Trinitarian Piety and Married Chastity in The Pistel of Swete Susan
  • 12. True Image? Alternative Veronicas in Late Medieval England
  • 13. The curelesse wound: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and the Poetry of Blood
  • Afterword
  • Julia Boffey: A Bibliography
  • Manuscript Index
  • General Index
  • Tabula Gratulatoria