The Auchinleck manuscript : new perspectives by Fein, Susanna, 1950- editor instant download

The Auchinleck manuscript : new perspectives by Fein, Susanna, 1950- editor instant download

1 online resource (xi, 253 pages) :, \"Created in London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1) is of crucial importance as the first book designed to convey in the English language an ambitious range of secular romance and chronicle. Evidently made in London by professional scribes for a secular patron, this tantalizing volume embodies a massive amount of material evidence as to London commercial book production and the demand for vernacular texts in the early fourteenth century. But its origins are mysterious: who were its makers? its users? how was it made? what end did it serve? The essays in this collection define the parameters of present-day Auchinleck studies. They scrutinize the manuscript's rich and varied contents; reopen theories and controversies regarding the book's making; trace the operations and interworkings of the scribes, compiler, and illuminators; tease out matters of patron and audience; interpret the contested signs of linguistic and national identity; and assess Auchinleck's implied literary values beside those of Chaucer. Geography, politics, international relations and multilingualism become pressing subjects, too, alongside critical analyses of literary substance.\"--, \"The University of York.\", \"A York Medieval Press publication in association with The Boydell Press, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ... and with the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York\"--Title page verso, Includes bibliographical references and indexes, Susanna Fein is Professor of English at Kent State University and editor of The Chaucer Review, Print version record