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The use Chaucer made of costume rhetoric, and its function within his works, are examined here for the first time. The study explores Chaucer's knowledge of the conventional imagery of medieval literary genres, especially medievalromances and fabliaux, and his manipulation of rhetorical conventions through variations and omissions. In particular, it addresses Chaucer's habit of playing upon his audience's expectations, derived from their knowledgeof the literary genres involved - and why he omits lengthy passages of costume rhetoric in his romances, but includes them in some of his comedic works, It also discusses the numerous minor facets of costume rhetoric employed in decorating his texts. Chaucer and Array also responds to the questions posed by medievalists concerning Chaucer's characteristic pattern of apportioning descriptive detail in his characterization by costume and in his depiction of clothing and textiles representing contemporary material culture, focussing attention on the literary meaning of clothing and fabrics as well as on their historic, economic and religious signification. LauraF. Hodges blends her interests in medieval literature and the history of costume in her publications, specializing in the semiotics of costume and fabrics in literature. A teacher of English literature for a number of years, sheholds a doctorate in literature from Rice University.

Clothing and dress --- Clothing and dress in literature. --- Costume in literature --- Apparel --- Clothes --- Clothing --- Clothing and dress, Primitive --- Dress --- Dressing (Clothing) --- Garments --- Beauty, Personal --- Manners and customs --- Fashion --- Undressing --- History --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- Knowledge --- Clothing and dress.

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Reappraisal of Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois, showing how it confronts and takes issue with - rather than simply imitating - earlier German Arthurian romance.

Arthurian romances --- Guinglain (Legendary character) --- History and criticism. --- Romances --- Wirnt von Gravenberg, --- Wirnt von Grafenberg --- History and criticism --- Wirnt, --- Wirnt von Grafenberg, --- Guinglain

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During the final century of the Anglo-Saxon state, the use of written English reached remarkable heights. Yet, while the make-up and contents of the many books and documents surviving from the periodhave been fully catalogued, less attention has been devoted to those who produced them. This is the first comprehensive annotated list of the scribal hands whose work survives from the time of the Benedictine Reform under King Edgar to that of the generation succeeding the Norman Conquest. More than a thousand hands are listed, together with details of their work, which ranges from a few words or sentences in marginalia to multiple volumes. The result is a reference tool which will allow further research not only into palaeographical issues but also into the writing habits and grammar of individuals and groups of related scribes and into patterns of education in some of the larger cultural centres.

Donald Scragg is Professor Emeritus of Anglo-Saxon Studies at the University of Manchester.

Scribes --- History --- Histoire --- 091 <41> --- 091 "09/10" --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--10/11e eeuw. Periode 900-1099 --- 091 "09/10" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--10/11e eeuw. Periode 900-1099 --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- English language --- Manuscripts, English (Old) --- Copyists --- Anglo-Saxon manuscripts --- English manuscripts, Old --- Manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon --- Manuscripts, Old English --- Old English manuscripts --- Germanic languages --- Written English --- History. --- Paleography, English. --- English paleography --- Writing. --- Alphabet. --- Geschichte 960-1100. --- Altenglisch. --- England.

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The Grail is one of the most enduring literary motifs in publishing history. In spite of an ever-changing world, the reading public has maintained a fascination for this enigmatic object, as well as the various adventures and characters associated with it. But the nature and reception of the Grail have not remained static. Thanks to the fact that the first known author of a Grail story, Chrétien de Troyes, died c.1180-90 before completing his tale and revealing the meaning of the Grail, authors and publishers across history have reimagined, reinterpreted and re-packaged Grail literature so as to appeal to the developing tastes and interests of their target audiences. This book analyses the developing publication practices associated with French Grail literature in medieval and Renaissance France. Arguing for pre-print book production as constituting an early incarnation of a publishing trade, it discusses such matters as the disclosure of authorship and patronage, and the writing and formatting of blurbs, as well as tactics of compilation as production techniques that bear evidence of common commercial motivations between pre- and post-print publication. The distinctive investigation of manuscript and early-print evidence brings medieval and early-modern publishers and their concepts of both product and market into focus. Leah Tether is Reader in Medieval Literature and Digital Cultures, and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol. She is the author of The Continuations of Chrétien's Perceval: Content and Construction, Extension and Ending (D.S. Brewer, 2012).

Grail --- French literature --- Legends --- History and criticism. --- rench literature

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The first critical edition with facing-page English translation of the fourteenth-century Il Tristano Riccardiano, MS 1729.

Arthurian romances. --- Romances, Italian --- Romances, Italian. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- Belluno. --- Lucchese. --- Pisan. --- Treviso. --- Tuscan. --- Veneto. --- analogue. --- animal allegory. --- copyist. --- ellipsis. --- innovation. --- redaction. --- variants.