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- 008 221021s2022 enk b 001 p eng d
- 020 __ |a 9781914049071 : |c CNY720.00
- 035 __ |a (OCoLC)on1296530659
- 040 __ |a A |b eng |c A |e rda |d ERASA |d UKMGB |d OCLCF |d BXM |d YDX |d CDX |d A
- 100 1_ |a Wood, Sarah Joy, |d 1980- |e author.
- 245 10 |a Piers Plowman and its manuscript tradition / |c Sarah Wood.
- 264 _1 |a Woodbridge, Suffolk ; |a Rochester, NY : |b York Medieval Press, |c 2022.
- 300 __ |a xiii, 243 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 490 1_ |a York manuscript and early print studies ; |v volume 5.
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and indexes.
- 520 __ |a "The fifty-plus surviving manuscripts of William Langland's Piers Plowman cast important light on the early public life of this central Middle English work, but they have been relatively neglected by scholarship. This first full study of the subject examines the textual variants, marginal rubrics and companion texts in the manuscripts. It illuminates a reception quite distinct from the reformist poems written by Langland's imitators in "the Piers Plowman tradition". It reveals how the earliest scribes devised various traditional forms of presentation that proved remarkably durable in the poem's subsequent reception, even surviving into the age of print. Exploring Piers Plowman's appearances in the manuscripts, paired unexpectedly with such genres as romance, hagiography and travel literature, the book demonstrates the surprisingly affective responses of medieval readers to the represented lives of the narrator Will and the title figure Piers the Plowman. At the same time, it shows that the evidence for individual scribal agendas in particular copies is more ambiguous than often assumed, with each book reflecting the activities of an unknown number of hands and an uncertain mixture of design and accident. By drawing on evidence from textual scholarship as well as codicological and literary approaches, the author offers fresh insight into Piers Plowman's place in literary history and proposes new ways of understanding the late medieval manuscript as a multi-layered, collaborative product"--Back cover.
- 600 10 |a Langland, William, |d 1330?-1400?
- 600 17 |a Langland, William, |d 1330?-1400? |2 fast
- 650 _0 |a Engelska handskrifter |x historia.
- 650 _0 |a Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- 830 _0 |a York manuscript and early print studies ; |v volume 5