Middle English Manuscripts and Their Legacies

A Volume in Honour of Ian Doyle
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-47214-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 102, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 862 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Manuscript World

This volume celebrates and extends the extraordinary and transformative work of Ian Doyle on medieval manuscripts and their legacies. Eighteen original contributions by eminent international scholars of manuscript studies and history of the book present new research on textual issues, manuscript preservation and circulation, manuscripts and print, and the afterlives of manuscripts. Essays adopt the multi-faceted and nuanced approaches to manuscript studies and history of the book characteristic of Ian Doyle’s work, taking up topics to which his research has drawn attention, extending his studies of particular manuscripts, scribes and networks, and exploring his remarkable contributions to the field.

Contributors are: Ralph Hanna, Susan Powell, Julia Boffey, David Rundle, James Willoughby, Carol Meale, Martha Driver, William Marx, Veronica O'Mara, Richard Gameson, Kathleen Scott, Margaret Connolly, Richard Beadle, A. S. G. Edwards, Elizabeth Rainey, Pamela Robinson, Toshi Takamiya, Linne Mooney, and Derek Pearsall.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Saunders, Corinne

Lawrie, Richard Marshall Alexander R

Atkinson, Laurie

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Plates

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Corinne Saunders and Richard Lawrie

part 1: Manuscript and Text

1 Richard Rolle’s ‘Valde Intimus Socius’: A Search for William Stoups

Ralph Hanna

2 Biblioteca Statale di Lucca, MS 3540: The Manuscript and Its Provenance

Susan Powell

3 Chaucer in Small Parcels: Odd Texts of Chaucer’s Short Poems, and Their Manuscript Contexts

Julia Boffey

part 2: Medieval Preservations

4 Our Imperfect Knowledge: John Dygon and Joanna Greenwood versus Andrew Holes

David Rundle

5 John Erghome and the Library of the Austin Friars of York

James Willoughby

6 The Trevelyan Archive: An Introduction to the Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries

Carol M. Meale

part 3: Manuscripts in Print

7 There and Back Again: Manuscripts after Printing

Martha W. Driver

8 John Warrin’s Book and the English Catholic Community

William Marx

9 Unearthing the History of an Early Printed Sermon: John Fisher and St John’s College, Cambridge

Veronica O’Mara

part 4: The Afterlives of Manuscripts

10 ‘Pope’s Chaucer’

Richard Gameson

11 An English Heraldic Artist: Henry VII’s Man or Studio Artist?

Kathleen L. Scott

12 Three Medieval Sermons and Their Victorian Printer: Charles Clark and the Dismembering of John Rylands MS English 109

Margaret Connolly

13 Bradshaw, Durham, and Doyle

Richard Beadle

part 5: Manuscripts and the Work of Ian Doyle

14 Ian Doyle at Cambridge

A.S.G. Edwards

15 Ian Doyle in Durham

Elizabeth Rainey

16 Ian Doyle as a Palaeographer

Pamela Robinson

17 An Homage to Ian Doyle from a Former Student

Toshiyuki Takamiya

Afterword

Linne Mooney and Derek Pearsall

A List of the Publications of A.I. Doyle

Elizabeth Rainey with the assistance of A.S.G. Edwards

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Corinne Saunders, D.Phil. (1991), Oxford, is Professor of Medieval Literature and co-directs the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. Her publications include Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance (2010) and Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts (2020).


Richard Lawrie, Ph.D (2013), Durham University, served as Vice-Master and Senior Tutor of University College, Durham, and was previously Secretary of the Senior Common Room of University College, a role in which he worked closely with Ian Doyle. He has taught in the departments of History and Education at Durham.


Laurie Atkinson is a PhD student in the Department of English Studies, Durham University, preparing for examination. He has published on Thomas Hoccleve, Stephen Hawes, and William Dunbar, and is now developing a postdoctoral research project on early English print.