03247nam 2200649 a 450 991045078220332120200520144314.01-280-75918-60-19-151465-91-4294-6022-9(CKB)1000000000412749(EBL)415675(OCoLC)476244132(SSID)ssj0000227498(PQKBManifestationID)11173577(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000227498(PQKBWorkID)10264160(PQKB)10926960(MiAaPQ)EBC415675(Au-PeEL)EBL415675(CaPaEBR)ebr10271533(CaONFJC)MIL75918(EXLCZ)99100000000041274920070124d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPrint culture and the medieval author[electronic resource] Chaucer, Lydgate, and their books, 1473-1557 /Alexandra GillespieOxford, UK ;New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (296 p.)Oxford English monographsDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-926295-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-263) and indexes.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 IndexAlexandra Gillespie takes a new look at hundreds of neglected old 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. - ;Print Culture and the Medieval Author is a book about books. Examining hundreds of early printed books and their late medieval analogues, Alexandra Gillespie writes a bibliographical history of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his follower John LydgateOxford English monographs.PrintingEnglandHistory16th centuryPrintingEnglandHistoryOrigin and antecedentsBooksHistory1450-1600Transmission of textsEnglandHistoryElectronic books.PrintingHistoryPrintingHistoryOrigin and antecedents.BooksHistoryTransmission of textsHistory.820.9001Gillespie Alexandra994784MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450782203321Print culture and the medieval author2278572UNINA