| 1. |  € 70,00 | EAN-13: 9782503523163 R. L. Schoff
Reformations. Three Medieval Authors in Manuscript and Movable Type
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2008 | | Collana: | Texts and Transitions |
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This volume discusses the key shift from manuscript to print
culture in the history of books, taking The Canterbury
Tales, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Piers
Plowman as models of the way in which a medieval text's unique
tradition influenced its transition from manuscript to print. The
forces of the Reformation era did not produce the same effect
across the varied textual legacy of the Middle Ages. Every text
that made the transition from manuscript to print brought with it a
set of concerns, a tendency to address a particular readership in
particular ways, a physical presence developed in manuscript
culture, all of which might shape the pathways by which a text
might arrive in print, and what it might look like when it got
there. This study follows The Canterbury Tales, The Book
of Margery Kempe, and Piers Plowman from their
circulation in manuscript to their presentation in print, in order
to track how each of them survived the metamorphosis of the
relationship between writers and readers as the new technology was
introduced. Taken together, the three case studies demonstrate to
scholars of any medieval literature the variety of possible impacts
made when texts composed in manuscript culture were prepared for
printing. The great force exerted by the technological and cultural
developments of the English Reformation, not least the more
centralized legislative regulation of the press, has long been
central to the study of the history of books. This volume takes
into account the ways in which individual textual traditions pushed
back or accelerated the forces of early modern reform, producing
their own plural reformations.
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