Insular Books Vernacular manuscript miscellanies in late medieval Britain

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Pub. Date: 2015-03-01
Publisher(s): British Academy
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Author Biography


Margaret Connolly, Honorary Research Fellow, School of English, University of St Andrews,Raluca Radulescu, Reader in Medieval Literature Co-Director of the Institute for medieval and Early Modern Studies, Bangor University and Aberystwyth University, Bangor University

Table of Contents


1. Introduction, Margaret Connolly and Raluca Radulescu
2. Texts in Conversation: Charlemagne Epics and Romances in Insular Plural-Text Codices, Marianne Ailes and Phillipa Hardman
3. Multilingualism, the Harley Scribe, and Johannes Jacobi, Keith Busby
4. Literary Scribes: The Harley Scribe and Robert Thornton as Case Studies, Susanna Fein
5. The Organisation of Multilingual Miscellanies: the Contrasting Fortunes of Middle English Lyrics and Romances, Ad Putter
6. John Northwood's Miscellany Revisited, Wendy Scase
7. Vying for Attention: the Contents of Trinity College Dublin MS 432, Raluca Radulescu
8. The Chivalric Miscellany: Classifying John Paston's 'Grete Boke', Andrew Taylor
9. Amateur Book Production and the Miscellany in Late-Medieval East Anglia: Tanner 407 and Beinecke 365, Carol Meale
10. Writing Without Borders: Multilingual Content in Welsh Miscellanies from Wales, the Marches and Beyond, Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
11. Welsh Bardic Miscellanies, Dafydd Johnston
12. Lancelot of the Laik and the Literary Manuscript Miscellany in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Scotland, Emily Wingfield
13. Entertainment Networks, Reading Communities, and the Early Tudor Anthology: Bodliean Library, MS Rawlinson C. 813, Deborah Youngs
14. Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS Peniarth 12: The Development of a Bilingual Miscellany - Welsh and English, William Marx
15. Towards a Taxonomy of Middle English Manuscript Assemblages, Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards
16. The Whole Book and the Whole Picture: Editions and Facsimiles of Medieval Miscellanies and their Influence, Margaret Connolly
17. Afterword, Ardis Butterfield

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