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Autore |
Gillespie Alexandra |
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Titolo |
Print culture and the medieval author : Chaucer, Lydgate, and their books, 1473-1557 / / Alexandra Gillespie |
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Oxford, UK ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-383-04046-X |
1-280-75918-6 |
0-19-151465-9 |
1-4294-6022-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford English monographs |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Printing - England - History - 16th century |
Printing - England - History - Origin and antecedents |
Books - History - 1450-1600 |
Transmission of texts - England - History |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Formerly CIP. |
Previously issued in print: 2006. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-263) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Author and the Book; 1. Caxton and Fifteenth-Century English Books; 2. Good Utterance: Printing and Innovation after 1478; 3. Assembling Chaucer's Texts in Print, 1517 to 1532; 4. Court and Cloister: Editions of Lydgate, 1509 to 1534; 5. The Press, the Medieval Author, and the English Reformations, 1534 to 1557; Afterword: At Lydgate's Tomb; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts; Index of Printed Editions, Texts Ascribed to Chaucer and Lydgate, 1473-1557; General Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Examining hundreds of early printed books containing works by Chaucer, the 'father' of English poetry, and his much-maligned follower, John Lydgate. She demonstrates that the shift from manuscript to print was part of the controversial process by which Chaucer earned his exclusive place in English literary history. |
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