KerbyFulton, Kathryn/ Hilmo,

Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts

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ISBN 13:: 9780801478307
author:: KerbyFulton, Kathryn/ Hilmo,
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Cornell University Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2012
Pages:: 416
Dimensions:: 30.5 x 22.9 x 2.2 centimetres (1
Genre:: Art, General
Condition:: New
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Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts. This lavishly illustrated 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. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Linda Olson, and Maidie Hilmo explore the function of illustrations in shaping audience response to particular authors and their texts over the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The book focuses on writers most often taught in Middle English courses, including Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and Julian of Norwich, highlighting specific issues that shaped literary production in late medieval England. The topics covered include 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.

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