THE WHOLE BOOK by Stephen G. Nichols (Editor), Siegfried Wenzel (Editor) ( 9780472106967 )

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Title:

THE WHOLE BOOK
CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE MEDIEVAL MISCELLANY

By:

Stephen G. Nichols (Editor), Siegfried Wenzel (Editor)

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Hardback

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0472106961

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9780472106967

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS

Pub. date:

6 November, 1996

Series:

Recentiores: Later Latin Texts & Contexts S.

Pages:

200

Description:

An investigation of the fascinating, not-so-miscellaneous miscellanies

Synopsis:

In the last few decades it has become abundantly clear how important is the "archaeology of the manuscript-book" in literary and textual scholarship. This method offers essential contexts for an editor's understanding of a manuscript, and helps to set the manuscript in the historical matrix in which the work was first brought out and understood.This group of papers, edited by two well-known scholars of the medieval world, offers both general and particular approaches to the issues surrounding manuscripts produced in the medieval habit of "miscellany," works of seemingly diverse natures bound together into one volume. Julia Boffey investigates how certain poetical miscellanies came to be assembled, for example, while Sylvia Huot suggests that the miscellany had many different sorts of function and significance. Siegfried Wenzel considers a taxonomy of such collections, and A. S. G. Edwards' paper considers Bodleian Selden B.24 as an example of how the notions of canon, authorship, and attribution might come into play. Ann Matter's final chapter offers the notion that what we call "miscellanies" are likely to have an internal logic that we have been trained to miss, but can come to understand. Other contributors are Ralph Hanna III, Georg Knauer, Stephen Nichols, James J. O'Donnell, and Barbara A. Shailor.Because The Whole Book deals not only with the content of miscellanies but also with contemporary literary principles, this volume will be of interest to a wide circle of literary critics and historians, as well as to students of the survival of literature and of cultural values.Stephen G. Nichols is James M. Beall Professor of French and Chair of the Department of French, The Johns Hopkins University. Siegfried Wenzel is Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania.

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