{"product_id":"opening-up-middle-english-manuscripts-literary-and-visual-approaches-paperback-softback-9780801478307","title":"Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts; Literary and Visual Approaches (Paperback \/ softback) 9780801478307","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOpening Up Middle English Manuscripts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiterary and Visual Approaches\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKathryn Kerby-Fulton (Author), Maidie Hilmo (Author), Linda Olson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801478307\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 September 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e424 pages, 200+ illustrations - 205 Illustrations, color\u003cbr\u003e30.5 x 22.9 x 2.2 cm, 1.814 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor undergraduate teachers like myself who have struggled to bring codicology into the classroom, this book is a gift... The authors do an excellent job of building characters around the shadowy figures of scribes, compilers, illuminators, binders, rubricators and annotators, explaining their impact on literature... \u003ci\u003eOpening Up Middle English Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003e does an excellent job of... working to break down barriers between manuscript, print and digital cultures as well as distinctions between medieval and contemporary, author and reader, student and specialist, and elite (i.e. manuscript-holding) and non-elite institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e - Janine Rogers (Review of English Studies) \u003cp\u003eAn attractively laid out and richly illustrated book. This book will be of interest to the seasoned manuscript scholar as to the neophyte.\u003c\/p\u003e - Julia Boffey (Times Literary Supplement) \u003cp\u003eFew universities in the US and the UK are able to offer their graduate students with properly supervised access to medieval manuscripts, despite the demand for such training. This superb volume fills a much-needed gap...The authors offer not just a masterly synthesis of the most recent (and even forthcoming) scholarship; they also break new ground.\u003c\/p\u003e - Ruth Evans (Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research) \u003cp\u003eOne of the crucial accomplishments of this volume is establishing without a doubt the very foundational nature of manuscript work to all scholarship on the Middle Ages. In a volume that devotes itself to a pedagogical mission, self-consciously unpacking its freight for both novices and experts alike, \u003ci\u003eOpening Up Middle English Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003e provides a great service to us all... Like the lectern-sized Riverside edition Kerby-Fulton discusses, It will become a standard in the field for both teaching and research purposes, and will hopefully drive a new generation of scholars into manuscript study.\u003c\/p\u003e - Kathleen E. Kennedy (The Medieval Review) \u003cp\u003eThe book has an engaging, conversational tone. Reading it is like being in a seminar taught by three excellent scholars deeply engaged in a burgeoning field and eager to cultivate new approaches and voices... Fittingly for a work that examines book design as an intellectual enterprise, the book is beautifully produced and very generously illustrated with excellent color reproductions of the widest variety of works... In sum, the present work is a sterling demonstration of what the history of the book has to offer literary studies.\u003c\/p\u003e - Erik Inglis (The Burlington Magazine)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeeply informed and lavishly illustrated, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOpening Up Middle English Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts.\u003c\/b\u003e It is intended for students and scholars who are familiar with some of the major Middle English literary works, such as \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eOpening Up Middle English Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKathryn Kerby-Fulton, Linda Olson, and Maidie Hilmo—scholars at the forefront of the modern study of Middle English manuscripts—focus on the writers most often taught in Middle English courses, including Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, the Gawain Poet, Thomas Hoccleve, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe, highlighting the specific issues that shaped literary production in late medieval England. Among the topics they address are the rise of the English language, literacy, social conditions of authorship, early instances of the \"Alliterative Revival,\" women and book production, nuns' libraries, patronage, household books, religious and political trends, and attempts at revisionism and censorship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs of 2024, \u003ci\u003eOpening Up Middle English Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003e is available as an ebook, ideal for instructors teaching the book in courses. The fully-searchable PDF ebook version is available through most digital textbook platforms and library ebook aggregaton platforms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Key Manuscript Terminology\u003cbr\u003e Note on Transcriptions and Transcription Symbols\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE FRONT PLATES: Transcriptions, Scripts, and Descriptive Analysis for Learning to Read Literary Texts on the Manuscript Page\u003c\/b\u003eHow to Transcribe Middle English \/ \u003ci\u003eKathryn Kerby-Fulton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Bare Essentials 1: A Transcription Is Not an Edition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction: The Order of the Plates and Scripts Most Commonly Found in Middle English Literary Texts \/ \u003ci\u003eKathryn Kerby-Fulton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e1. \u003ci\u003eThe Land of Cokaygne\u003c\/i\u003e (British Library, ms Harley 913) \/ \u003ci\u003eKathryn Kerby-Fulton\u003c\/i\u003e2. \"Ihesu Swete\" (Newberry Library, MS 31) \/ \u003ci\u003eKathryn Kerby-Fulton\u003c\/i\u003e3. \u003ci\u003eThe Pricke of Conscience\u003c\/i\u003e (Newberry Library, MS 32.9) \/ \u003ci\u003eKathryn Kerby-Fulton\u003c\/i\u003e4. Chaucer's \"Cook's Tale\" (Hg) (National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 392D, Hengwrt MS 154) \/ \u003ci\u003eKathryn Kerby-Fulton\u003c\/i\u003e5. Chaucer's \"Cook's Tale\" (Cp) (Corpus Christi College, MS 198) \/ \u003ci\u003eKathryn Kerby-Fulton\u003c\/i\u003e6. \u003ci\u003eOmnis plantacio\u003c\/i\u003e (formerly \u003ci\u003eThe Clergy May Not Hold Property\u003c\/i\u003e) (Huntington Library, MS HM 503) \/ \u003ci\u003eKathryn Kerby-Fulton\u003c\/i\u003e7. Hoccleve 's \"Chanceon to Somer\" and Envoy to \u003ci\u003eRegiment des Princes \u003c\/i\u003e(Huntington Library, MS HM 111) \/ \u003ci\u003eKathryn Kerby-Fulton\u003c\/i\u003e8. Langland, \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e (Bodleian Library, MS Douce 104) \/ \u003ci\u003eKathryn Kerby-Fulton\u003c\/i\u003e9. \u003ci\u003eSir Degrevant\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6, Findern MS) \/ \u003ci\u003eLinda Olson\u003c\/i\u003e10. \u003ci\u003eWisdom\u003c\/i\u003e (Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.354, Macro MS) \/ \u003ci\u003eLinda Olson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. Major Middle English Poets and Manuscript Studies, 1300–1450 \/ \u003ci\u003eKathryn Kerby-Fulton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA Brief Overview of Topics Covered in This ChapterI. BL MS Arundel 292, Archaism, and the Preservation of Alliterative Poetry c. 1300–c. 1450II. BL MS Harley 2253 and Principles of \u003ci\u003eCompilatio\u003c\/i\u003e, or: Why Read the Harley Lyrics in their Natural Habitat?\u003ci\u003e—Bare Essentials 2: Anglicana Script and Profiling the Individual Scribe\u003c\/i\u003eIII. Gawain and the Medieval Reader: The Importance of Manuscript \u003ci\u003eOrdinatio\u003c\/i\u003e in a Poem We Think We Know\u003ci\u003e—Bare Essentials 3: Assessing Emendation in a Modern Edition\u003c\/i\u003eIV. The Rise of English Book Production in Ricardian London: Professional Scribes and Langland's \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Bare Essentials 4: Some Basic Concepts of Editing, Types of Written Standard Middle English, and Scribal Handling of Dialect\u003c\/i\u003eV. Some of the Earliest Attempts to Assemble the \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003eVI. The Scribe Speaks at Last: Hoccleve as Scribe E\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. Romancing the Book: Manuscripts for \"Euerich Inglische\" \/ \u003ci\u003eLinda Olson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Middle English Romances in the Auchinleck, Thornton, and Findern Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003eI. Englishing Romance: The Auchinleck ManuscriptII. Romancing the Gentry Household: Robert Thornton's Homemade Family Library\u003ci\u003e—Thornton Names in the Lincoln and London Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003eIII. Courting Romance in the Provinces: The Findern Manuscript\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. The Power of Images in the Auchinleck, Vernon, Pearl, and Two \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e Manuscripts \/ \u003ci\u003eMaidie Hilmo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eI. Looking at Medieval ImagesII. The Auchinleck ManuscriptIII. The Vernon ManuscriptIV. The \u003ci\u003ePearl\u003c\/i\u003e ManuscriptV. Two \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e Manuscripts and the Ushaw \u003ci\u003ePrick of Conscience\u003c\/i\u003eVI. Conclusion\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. Professional Readers at Work: Annotators, Editors, and Correctors in Middle English Literary Texts \/ \u003ci\u003eKathryn Kerby-Fulton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eI. Categories of Marginalia: The Annotating and Glossing of ChaucerII. The Annotations in Manuscripts of Langland's \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003eIII. Annotations and Corrections in the \u003ci\u003eBook of Margery Kempe\u003c\/i\u003e: Cruxes, Controversies, and Solutions\u003ci\u003e—Appendix on the Red Ink Annotator and Previous Annotators in BL MS Add. 61823\u003c\/i\u003eIV. The Quiet Connoisseur: The First Annotator(s) of Julian of Norwich's \u003ci\u003eShowings\u003c\/i\u003e in the Amherst Manuscript (British Library, MS Add. 37790)\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. Illuminating Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e: Portraits of the Author and Selected Pilgrim Authors \/ \u003ci\u003eMaidie Hilmo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eI. IntroductionII. The Decoration and Borders of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere ManuscriptsIII. The Historiated Initial with an Author Portrait: A Further Development of the Hengwrt TraditionIV. The Ellesmere Traditions: Illustrated Pilgrim AuthorsV. Conclusion\u003cb\u003eChapter 6. \"Swete Cordyall\" of \"Lytterature\": Some Middle English Manuscripts from the Cloister \/ \u003ci\u003eLinda Olson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eI. Nourishing the Spirit of Religious Women: Vernacular Texts and ManuscriptsII. Monastic Manuscripts of Chaucer: Literary Excellence under Religious Rule\u003ci\u003e—The Contents of London, British Library, MS Harley 7333\u003c\/i\u003eIII. Lots of Lydgate and a Little Hoccleve: Chaucer's Successors in Monastic HandsIV. \"Sadde Mete\" for Mind and Soul: Contemplative and Visionary Texts in the CloisterV. Taking it to the Streets: Middle English Drama from the Cloister\u003ci\u003eReferences Cited\u003cbr\u003e Illustration Credits\u003cbr\u003e Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula\u003cbr\u003e General Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670821433624,"sku":"9780801478307","price":36.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/opening-up-middle-english-manuscripts-literary-and-visual-approaches-paperback-softback-9780801478307","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}