LEADER 03247nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910450782203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-75918-6 010 $a0-19-151465-9 010 $a1-4294-6022-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000412749 035 $a(EBL)415675 035 $a(OCoLC)476244132 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000227498 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11173577 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000227498 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10264160 035 $a(PQKB)10926960 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415675 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415675 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10271533 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL75918 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000412749 100 $a20070124d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPrint culture and the medieval author$b[electronic resource] $eChaucer, Lydgate, and their books, 1473-1557 /$fAlexandra Gillespie 210 $aOxford, UK ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 225 1 $aOxford English monographs 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-926295-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-263) and indexes. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aAlexandra Gillespie takes a new look at hundreds of neglected old books containing works by Chaucer, the 'father' of English poetry, and his much-maligned follower, John Lydgate. She demonstrates that the shift from manuscript to print was part of the controversial process by which Chaucer earned his exclusive place in English literary history. - ;Print Culture and the Medieval Author is a book about books. Examining hundreds of early printed books and their late medieval analogues, Alexandra Gillespie writes a bibliographical history of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his follower John Lydgate 410 0$aOxford English monographs. 606 $aPrinting$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aPrinting$zEngland$xHistory$xOrigin and antecedents 606 $aBooks$xHistory$y1450-1600 606 $aTransmission of texts$zEngland$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPrinting$xHistory 615 0$aPrinting$xHistory$xOrigin and antecedents. 615 0$aBooks$xHistory 615 0$aTransmission of texts$xHistory. 676 $a820.9001 700 $aGillespie$b Alexandra$0994784 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450782203321 996 $aPrint culture and the medieval author$92278572 997 $aUNINA