Title Chaucer's scribes : London textual production, 1384-1432 / Lawrence Warner

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 222 pages) : illustrations Series Cambridge studies in medieval literature Cambridge studies in medieval literature. Contents The Pynkhurst phenomenon -- Adam -- The Pynkhurst canon -- Pynkhurst's London English and the dilemma of copy-text -- Looking for the scribe of Huntington Hm 114 -- The Guildhall clerks -- Hoccleve's Hengwrt, Hoccleve's Holographs -- Where is Adam Pynkhurst? Summary "The 2004 announcement that Chaucer's scribe had been discovered resulted in a paradigm shift in medieval studies. Adam Pynkhurst dominated the classroom, became a fictional character, and led to suggestions that this identification should prompt the abandonment of our understanding of the development of London English and acceptance that the clerks of the Guildhall were promoting vernacular literature as part of a concerted political program. In this meticulously researched study, Lawrence Warner challenges the narratives and conclusions of recent scholarship. In place of the accepted story, Warner provides a fresh, more nuanced one in which many more scribes, anonymous ones, worked in conditions we are only beginning to understand. Bringing to light new information, not least, hundreds of documents in the hand of one of the most important fifteenth-century scribes of Chaucer and Langland, this book represents an important intervention in the field of Middle English studies." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Manuscripts SUBJECT Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast Subject Scribes -- England -- London -- History -- To 1500 Manuscripts, Medieval -- England -- London -- History -- To 1500 English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- General. English literature -- Middle English Manuscripts, Medieval Scribes England -- London Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Manuscripts Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108640497 1108640494 9781108673433 1108673430

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