Print culture and the medieval author [[electronic resource] ] : Chaucer, Lydgate, and their books, 1473-1557 / / Alexandra Gillespie
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Gillespie Alexandra
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| Titolo: |
Print culture and the medieval author [[electronic resource] ] : Chaucer, Lydgate, and their books, 1473-1557 / / Alexandra Gillespie
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, UK ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9001 |
| Soggetto topico: | Printing - England - History - 16th century |
| Printing - England - History - Origin and antecedents | |
| Books - History - 1450-1600 | |
| Transmission of texts - England - History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-263) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Alexandra 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Print culture and the medieval author |
| ISBN: | 1-280-75918-6 |
| 0-19-151465-9 | |
| 1-4294-6022-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450782203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Oxford English monographs.