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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 'power's net-like organisation'. All of the essays in the volume embed the manuscripts they discuss in particular sets of personal relationships, conducted in specific social environments - in the schoolroom or the monastery, at court, in the gentry household and the city, or mediating between these. The essays address, among others, issues of gender, patronage, status, self-authorization, and gentry and urban sociability, in studies ranging from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Professor FELICITY RIDDY teaches in the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Department of English at the University of York. Contributors: SUZANNE REYNOLDS, KANTIK GHOSH, KATE HARRIS, KATHLEEN L. SCOTT, JOHN THOMPSON, CAROL M. MEALE, ANNE M. DUTTON, JAMES P. CARLEY, DAVID R. CARLSON

Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Old English literature --- anno 500-1499 --- Authority --- Autorité --- Gezag --- Prestige --- 091 <41> --- English literature --- -Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- -Literature and society --- -Manuscripts, English --- -Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- -Prestige --- Social psychology --- Social influence --- Medieval and modern Latin manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- English manuscripts --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Political science --- Authoritarianism --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Bibliography --- Criticism , Textual --- History --- Social aspects --- -History --- -Social aspects --- Authority. --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- Literature and society --- Manuscripts, English --- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Prestige. --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- -091 <41> --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- History and criticism --- Manuscripts, English - Social aspects - History. --- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) - Social aspects - England. --- English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Social aspects. --- English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Social aspects. --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern - Social aspects.