Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period.
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 ofsecular 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; teaseout 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.
Susanna Fein is Professor of English at Kent State University and editor of
The Chaucer Review.
Contributors: Venetia Bridges, Patrick Butler, Siobhain Bly Calkin, A. S. G. Edwards, Ralph Hanna, Ann Higgins, Cathy Hume, Marisa Libbon, Derek Pearsall, Helen Phillips, Emily Runde, Timothy A. Shonk, Míceál F. Vaughan.
Cuprins
Introduction. The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives – Susanna Fein
The Auchinleck Manuscript Forty Years On – Derek Pearsall
Codicology and Translation in the Early Sections of the Auchinleck Manuscript – A S G Edwards
The Auchinleck
Adam and Eve: An Exemplary Family Story – Cathy Hume
A Failure to Communicate: Multilingualism in the Prologue to
Of Arthour and of Merlin – Patrick Butler
Scribe 3’s Literary Project: Pedagogies of Reading in Auchinleck’s Booklet 3 – Emily Runde
Absent Presence: Auchinleck and
Kyng Alisaunder – Venetia Bridges
Sir Tristrem, a Few Fragments and the Northern Identity of the Auchinleck Manuscript – Ann Higgins
The Invention of
King Richard – Marisa Libbon
Auchinleck and Chaucer – Helen Phillips
Endings in the Auchinleck Manuscript – Siobhain Bly Calkin
Paraphs, Piecework and Presentation: The Production Methods of Auchinleck Revisited – Timothy A. Shonk
Scribal Corrections in the Auchinleck Manuscript – Miceal F Vaughan
Auchinleck ‘Scribe 6’ and Some Corollary Issues – Ralph Hanna
Bibliography
Despre autor
The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland’s Piers Plowman.
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