LEADER 02852nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910784398003321 005 20230607221006.0 010 $a0-8166-9258-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000346860 035 $a(EBL)310536 035 $a(OCoLC)171126835 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000277430 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11240446 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277430 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10240898 035 $a(PQKB)10172417 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC310536 035 $a(OCoLC)133168365 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse38937 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL310536 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10151223 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL522666 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000346860 100 $a20001127d2001 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe book of the incipit$b[electronic resource] $ebeginnings in the fourteenth century /$fD. Vance Smith 210 $aMinneapolis, Minn. $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.) 225 1 $aMedieval cultures ;$vv. 28 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-3761-X 311 $a0-8166-3760-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 261-281) and index. 327 $aContents; Preliminary; Incipit: A Fourteenth-Century Incipit; Initium: Incipits and the Intentions of Vernacular Writing; Exordium: Making Beginnings: Disposition and Inscription; Thema: The Book That Makes Itself; Origo: Genealogy: Engenderment and Digression; Conditora: The Archive of Grammar: Beginning and Documentary Remembrance; Principium: Beginning Perfection: The Theology of Inception; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aIn the first book to examine one of the most peculiar features of one of the greatest and most perplexing poems of England's late Middle Ages-the successive attempts of Piers Plowman to begin, and to keep beginning-D. Vance Smith compels us to rethink beginning, as concept and practice, in both medieval and contemporary terms. 410 0$aMedieval cultures ;$vv. 28. 606 $aChristian poetry, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish language$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xRhetoric 606 $aOpenings (Rhetoric) 606 $aRhetoric, Medieval 606 $aIncipits 615 0$aChristian poetry, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish language$xRhetoric. 615 0$aOpenings (Rhetoric) 615 0$aRhetoric, Medieval. 615 0$aIncipits. 676 $a821/.1 700 $aSmith$b D. Vance$f1963-$01491050 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784398003321 996 $aThe book of the incipit$93712597 997 $aUNINA