{"product_id":"scribal-correction-and-literary-craft-english-manuscripts-1375-1510-hardback-9781107076228","title":"Scribal Correction and Literary Craft; English Manuscripts 1375–1510 (Hardback) 9781107076228","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eScribal Correction and Literary Craft\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEnglish Manuscripts 1375–1510\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn authoritative account of what manuscripts and their corrections reveal about medieval attitudes to books, language and literature.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDaniel Wakelin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107076228, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 November 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 6 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate, and on prose works such as chronicles, religious instruction and practical lore. His materials are the variants and corrections found in manuscripts, phenomena usually studied only by editors or palaeographers, but his method is the close reading and interpretation typical of literary criticism. From the corrections emerge often overlooked aspects of English literary thinking in the late Middle Ages: scribes, readers and authors seek, though often fail to achieve, invariant copying, orderly spelling, precise diction, regular verse and textual completeness. Correcting reveals their impressive attention to scribal and literary craft - its rigour, subtlety, formalism and imaginativeness - in an age with little other literary criticism in English.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Contexts: 2. Inviting correction\u003cbr\u003e 3. Copying, varying and correcting\u003cbr\u003e 4. People and places\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Craft: 5. Techniques\u003cbr\u003e 6. Accuracy\u003cbr\u003e 7. Writing well\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Literary Criticism: 8. Diction, tone and style\u003cbr\u003e 9. Form\u003cbr\u003e 10. Completeness\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Implications: 11. Authorship\u003cbr\u003e 12. Conclusion: varying, correcting and critical thinking\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index of manuscripts.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20classical,%20early%20\u0026amp;%20medieval%20%5BDSBB%5D%22\"\u003eDSBB\u003c\/a\u003e], Palaeography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Palaeography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Palaeography%20%5Bhistory%20of%20writing%5D%20%5BCFL%5D%22\"\u003ehistory of writing CFL\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265588318488,"sku":"9781107076228","price":103.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107076228i_46798763-a8ac-4edf-a198-78dc1f15c2af.jpg?v=1694545908","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/scribal-correction-and-literary-craft-english-manuscripts-1375-1510-hardback-9781107076228","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}