Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Frontispiece -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Nomenclature -- 2. The Elaborate Book -- 3. The Streamlined Book -- 4. The Evolving Book -- 5. The DIY Book -- 6. The Proliferation of Scribes, I: The Manuscript Evidence -- 7. The Proliferation of Scribes, II: The Historical Evidence -- Conclusion -- Coda: From Gutenberg and Caxton to Jeff Bezos -- Appendix: The Manuscripts in My Corpus -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Index -- Index
Summary
A new account of Middle English book production and circulation that analyzes 202 literary manuscripts from late medieval England (1350-1500) to show how the production of documents underscored the wide availability of literary copying
