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This extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate, and on prose works such as chronicles, religious instruction and practical lore. His materials are the variants and corrections found in manuscripts, phenomena usually studied only by editors or palaeographers, but his method is the close reading and interpretation typical of literary criticism. From the corrections emerge often overlooked aspects of English literary thinking in the late Middle Ages: scribes, readers and authors seek, though often fail to achieve, invariant copying, orderly spelling, precise diction, regular verse and textual completeness. Correcting reveals their impressive attention to scribal and literary craft - its rigour, subtlety, formalism and imaginativeness - in an age with little other literary criticism in English.

English literature --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Transmission of texts. --- Literature, Medieval --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Criticism, Textual. --- England --- Intellectual life --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Medieval manuscripts --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Transmission of texts --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Manuscripts --- History and criticism --- History --- E-books --- Littérature anglaise --- Manuscrits médiévaux --- Transmission de textes --- Littérature médiévale --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Critique textuelle --- Angleterre --- Vie intellectuelle --- English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism --- Manuscripts, Medieval - England - History --- Literature, Medieval - Criticism, Textual --- England - Intellectual life - 1066-1485 --- Literatura medieval --- Manuscritos medievales --- Transmisión de textos --- Literatura inglesa --- Historia y crítica --- Inglaterra --- Cultura

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Non-fiction --- Old English literature --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- anno 1400-1499 --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Authors and readers --- Scriptoria --- History --- John Capgrave, --- criticism and interpretation --- Manuscripts --- 091 CAPGRAVE, JOHN --- 091 =20 --- 091 =71 --- 091.5 --- 930.85.42 <41> --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--CAPGRAVE, JOHN --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Latijn --- Autografen --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 930.85.42 <41> Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 091.5 Autografen --- 091 =71 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Latijn --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- 091 CAPGRAVE, JOHN Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--CAPGRAVE, JOHN --- Copying rooms --- Writing rooms --- Rooms --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Monasteries --- Monastic libraries --- Medieval manuscripts --- Readers and authors --- Authorship --- Reproduction --- Capgrave, John, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Manuscripts. --- Manuscripts [Medieval ] --- England --- Capgrave, John, - 1393-1464 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Capgrave, John, - 1393-1464 - Manuscripts. --- Manuscripts, Medieval - England - History --- Authors and readers - England - History --- Scriptoria - England - History --- John Capgrave, - 1393-1464 - criticism and interpretation --- John Capgrave, - 1393-1464 - Manuscripts --- John Capgrave, - 1393-1464

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Manuscripts, Medieval --- Private libraries --- Manuscrits médiévaux --- Bibliothèques privées --- Collectors and collecting --- History --- History. --- Collectionneurs et collections --- Histoire --- England --- Angleterre --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- 091 <41> --- 09 <081 WATSON, ANDREW G.> --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Verzameld werk van individuele auteurs--WATSON, ANDREW G. --- 09 <081 WATSON, ANDREW G.> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Verzameld werk van individuele auteurs--WATSON, ANDREW G. --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Manuscrits médiévaux --- Bibliothèques privées --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Verzameld werk van individuele auteurs--WATSON, ANDREW G --- Manuscripts, Medieval - Collectors and collecting - England - History - 16th century --- Manuscripts, Medieval - Collectors and collecting - England - History - 17th century --- Private libraries - England - History - 16th century --- Private libraries - England - History - 17th century --- Manuscripts, Medieval - England - History --- Manuscrits

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The medieval English West Midlands has long been associated with the production of vernacular texts, in Old and Middle English, and with the making of several famous manuscripts. The aim of this volume is to re-think assumptions about medieval literature and the region in the light of new research in medieval book history. A series of specially commissioned essays in ‘manuscript geography’ examines the making and use of texts and books in relation to cultural networks in the region and beyond. Included are case studies of manuscripts of Worcester and the Worcester diocese from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries; investigations of manuscript production in fourteenth-century Shropshire and its wider regional links; and essays on textual cultures in Warwickshire from the activities of the aristocrats and gentry of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to the projects of later antiquarians. Essays in the final section of the volume reflect on the possibilities of large-scale, corpus-based research on medieval manuscript books. Collectively the essays identify and explore some of the investments of traditional regionalist accounts of vernacular literary culture and model new theoretical and methodological approaches.

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