MANUSCRIPTS AND TEXTS: EDITORIAL PROBLEMS IN LATER MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE: ESSAYS FROM THE 1985 CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK.

PEARSALL, Derek.

ISBN 10: 0859912310 / ISBN 13: 9780859912310

Published by D. S. Brewer,, Cambridge,, 1987

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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publishers green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Bookplate on the verso front endpaper of distinguished medieval historian and publisher Richard Barber who founded the Boydell Press in 1969 (later Boydell and Brewer). Contributors include: Rosamund Allen, Janet M. Cowen, A.S.G. Edwards, Dan Embree and Elizabeth Urquhart. ISBN: 0859912310 Pages: 192 Very good indeed in very good dust jacket. Decent copy.

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• Title: MANUSCRIPTS AND TEXTS: EDITORIAL PROBLEMS IN LATER MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE: ESSAYS FROM THE 1985 CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK.
• Publisher: D. S. Brewer,, Cambridge,
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859912310
• ISBN 13: 9780859912310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Synopsis

The essays collected here are an edited selection of the papers given at the 3rd York Conference on 15th-century Manuscript Studies, held at the University of York in July 1985.
The conference concentrated on problems of textual criticism and editorial practice in relation to late medieval English texts, and the present essays constitute an important landmark in the development of the study of the subject, both general and specific. Textual questions lie at the root of all study of literature: if they are not addressed, then what is read can only be imperfectly understood, whatever critical approach the reader thinks he is making. Such questions are a matter of the liveliestdebate at the present time, and the texts of the principal authors of the period, including Chaucer, Langland and Gower, are being vigorously re-evaluated. Other major forms of literary production, such as drama and the romances,present special problems, and it is possible to credit a wide range of views concerning the status of `the text' in such cases.