| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 199 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
York manuscripts conferences, 0955-9663 ; v. 4 |
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York manuscripts conferences ; v. 4. 0955-9663
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| Contents |
Preliminaries; Contents; List of Plates; Introduction; Inventing Authority: Glossing, Literacy and the Classical Text; Manuscripts of Nicholas Love's The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ and Wycliffite Notions of Àuthority'; The Patronage and Dating of Longleat House MS 24, a Prestige Copy of the Pupilla Oculi Illuminated by the Master of the Troilus Frontispiece; Limner-Power: A Book Artist in England c. 1420; A Poet's Contacts with the Great and the Good: Further Consideration of Thomas Hoccleve's Texts and Manuscripts |
| Summary |
Prestige, authority and power: what is the significance of these three terms for the study of late-medieval manuscripts and texts? This collection of essays, by leading scholars from Britain and North America, answers this question in various ways: by discussing manuscripts as prestigious de luxe objects; by showing how the layout of texts was used to confer different kinds of authority; and by locating manuscripts and texts more dynamically in what Foucault calls p̀ower's net-like organisation' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Manuscripts, English -- Social aspects -- History
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Social aspects -- England
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
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Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- England -- History and criticism
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Authority.
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Prestige.
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ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- General.
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Authority
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English literature -- Middle English
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Latin literature, Medieval and modern
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Literature and society
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Prestige
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England
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Riddy, Felicity
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| ISBN |
0585490929 |
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9780585490922 |
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1846151376 |
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9781846151378 |
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