Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England: Making English Literary Manuscripts, 1400-1500

by Daniel Wakelin

Daniel Wakelin introduces and reinterprets the misunderstood and overlooked craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes involved in making some of the most important manuscripts in late medieval English literature. In doing so he overturns how we view the role of scribes, showing how they ignored or concealed irregular and damaged parchment; ruled pages from habit and convention more than necessity; decorated the division of the text...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009113313
• ISBN13: 9781009113311
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"