Daniel Sawyer

Reading English Verse in Manuscript C.1350-C.1500

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This history of reading for Middle English poetry combines close readings, detailed case studies of surviving codices, and systematic manuscript surveys to demonstrate the variety, vitality, and formal concerns visible in the reading of verse in this period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780198857778
• ISBN-10: 0198857772
• Artikelnr.: 58412123

Autorenporträt

Daniel Sawyer is the Fitzjames Research Fellow in Medieval English at Merton College, Oxford. His research ranges across literary criticism, scholarly editing, and quantitative and qualitative codicology, all applied to English manuscripts and Middle English texts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: 'Diverse folk diversely they deemed'
2: Navigating
3: Handling
4: Rhyming
5: Wider Reading