The Auchinleck Manuscript

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New Perspectives

Susanna Fein (Customer), Professor A. S. G. Edwards, Ann Higgins (Contributor) , Cathy Hume (Customer)

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York Medieval Press
20 April 2018

Palaeography (history of writing); Literary studies: classical, early & medieval

Series: Manuscript Culture in the British Isles

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.

Contributions by: Professor A. S. G. Edwards, Ann Higgins (Contributor), Cathy Hume (Customer), Derek Pearsall
Edited by: Susanna Fein (Customer)
Imprint: York Medieval Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v. 7
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 417g
ISBN: 9781903153789
ISBN 10: 1903153786
Series: Manuscript Culture in the British Isles
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 20 April 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. CATHY HUME is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol. 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.

Reviews for The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives

A weighty and significant publication.. It constitutes essential reading, not only for any serious student of the Auchinleck Ms. and its texts, but also for those interested in medieval romance and in any aspect of medieval ms. culture. It is also an example of an all-too-rare phenomenon: a volume of essays which is, through their interaction and skillful curation, significantly more than the sum of its parts. * SCRIPTORIUM * Future scholars will need to ground themselves in this volume. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW * This collection is a great resource for further scholarship on the Auchinleck manuscript and the treasures it contains. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *