LEADER 04576nam 22008411 450 001 9910787658003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0184-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201840 035 $a(CKB)2670000000427099 035 $a(OCoLC)861793310 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10767847 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053101 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12409328 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053101 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11083971 035 $a(PQKB)10684734 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse31982 035 $a(DE-B1597)449038 035 $a(OCoLC)979748016 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201840 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442260 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10767847 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682362 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442260 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000427099 100 $a20140721d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPrinting the Middle Ages /$fSia?n Echard 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cPENN/University of Pennsylvania Press,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (333 p.) 225 0 $aMaterial Texts 225 0$aMaterial texts 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51080-6 311 $a0-8122-4091-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForm and rude letters : the representation of Old English -- The true history of Sir Guy (and what happened to Sir Bevis?) -- Aristocratic antiquaries : Gower on Gower -- Bedtime Chaucer : juvenile adaptations and the Medieval canon -- Froissart's not French (or Flemish) : the travels of a Medieval history. 330 $aIn Printing the Middle Ages Siān Echard looks to the postmedieval, postmanuscript lives of medieval texts, seeking to understand the lasting impact on both the popular and the scholarly imaginations of the physical objects that transmitted the Middle Ages to the English-speaking world. Beneath and behind the foundational works of recovery that established the canon of medieval literature, she argues, was a vast terrain of books, scholarly or popular, grubby or beautiful, widely disseminated or privately printed. By turning to these, we are able to chart the differing reception histories of the literary texts of the British Middle Ages. For Echard, any reading of a medieval text, whether past or present, amateur or academic, floats on the surface of a complex sea of expectations and desires made up of the books that mediate those readings. Each chapter of Printing the Middle Ages focuses on a central textual object and tells its story in order to reveal the history of its reception and transmission. Moving from the first age of print into the early twenty-first century, Echard examines the special fonts created in the Elizabethan period to reproduce Old English, the hand-drawn facsimiles of the nineteenth century, and today's experiments with the digital reproduction of medieval objects; she explores the illustrations in eighteenth-century versions of Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton; she discusses nineteenth-century children's versions of the Canterbury Tales and the aristocratic transmission history of John Gower's Confessio Amantis; and she touches on fine press printings of Dante, Froissart, and Langland. 606 $aBibliography, Critical 606 $aBooks$xHistory 606 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xCriticism, Textual 606 $aLiterature, Medieval$xAppreciation$zEnglish-speaking countries 606 $aLiterature, Medieval$xCriticism, Textual 606 $aManuscripts, Medieval$xEditing 606 $aMedievalism$zEnglish-speaking countries 606 $aPrinting$xHistory 606 $aTransmission of texts 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aBibliography, Critical. 615 0$aBooks$xHistory. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xCriticism, Textual. 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval$xAppreciation 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval$xCriticism, Textual. 615 0$aManuscripts, Medieval$xEditing. 615 0$aMedievalism 615 0$aPrinting$xHistory. 615 0$aTransmission of texts. 676 $a686.209 700 $aEchard$b Sia?n$01554149 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787658003321 996 $aPrinting the Middle Ages$93815218 997 $aUNINA