The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales

The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales
Author: Charles Abraham Owen
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1991
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780859913348

Owen investigates what the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales reveal about the way they came into being. [see revs] This study of the manuscripts of the Canterbury Talescalls into question previous efforts to explain the complexities, the different orderings of the tales and the extraordinary shifts in textual affiliations within the manuscripts. Owen sees the manuscripts that survive, most of them collections of all or almost all the tales, as derived from the large number of single tales and small collections that circulated after Chaucer's death. This theory takes issue with all modern editions of the Canterbury Tales, which in Owen's view reflect the effort of medieval scribes and supervisors to make a satisfactory book of the collection of fragments Chaucer left behind. It is this collection of fragments, the authentic Tales of Canterbury by Geoffrey Chaucer, which reflects the different stages of the plan that was still evolving at his death. CHARLES A. OWEN Jr is former Professor of English and Chairman of Medieval Studies at the University of Conneticut.

The Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

The Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Author: Herbert Clarence Schulz
Publisher: Huntington Library Press
Total Pages: 74
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

This book is an ideal introduction to the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, covering its context, construction, and provenance, with two dozen full-page color illustrations showing the techniques of the scribes and illuminators.

Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Author: Caroline D. Eckhardt
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780802025920

This annotated, international bibliography of twentieth-century criticism on the Prologue is an essential reference guide. It includes books, journal articles, and dissertations, and a descriptive list of twentieth-century editions; it is the most complete inventory of modern criticism on the Prologue.

Selections from Chaucer

Selections from Chaucer
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1907
Genre: Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN:

The Canterbury Tales, A Selection - Second Edition

The Canterbury Tales, A Selection - Second Edition
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2013-07-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1554811368

Drawing from the same text as the complete Broadview edition of the Tales, which is based on the famous Ellesmere Manuscript, this selected edition also features a critical introduction, marginal glosses in modern English of difficult words, and explanatory footnotes. The most widely taught appendix material from the complete edition is included, along with ten illustrations from the Ellesmere Manuscript. The second edition includes a new glossary, a timeline of Chaucer’s life and times, and detailed headers showing the section and line numbers, making it easier to find a specific section of the poem. Several popular prologues and tales have also been added to the selection: The Cook’s Prologue and Tale, The Friar’s Prologue and Tale, The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale, and The Parson’s Prologue.

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age
Author: Benjamin Albritton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2020
Genre: Codicology
ISBN: 9780367498771

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository's digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment. Through contributions from a large group of distinguished international scholars, the volume assesses the impact of being able to access and interpret these early manuscripts in new ways. The focus on Parker on the Web, a world-class digital repository of diverse medieval manuscripts, comes as that site made its contents Open Access. Exploring the uses of digital representations of medieval texts and their contexts, contributors consider manuscripts from multiple perspectives including production, materiality, and reception. In addition, the volume explicates new interdisciplinary frameworks of analysis for the study of the relationship between texts and their physical contexts, while centring on an appreciation of the opportunities and challenges effected by the digital representation of a tangible object. Approaches extend from the codicological, palaeographical, linguistic, and cultural to considerations of reader reception, image production, and the implications of new technologies for future discoveries. Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age advances the debate in manuscript studies about the role of digital and computational sources and tools. As such, the book will appeal to scholars and students working in the disciplines of Digital Humanities, Medieval Studies, Literary Studies, Library and Information Science, and Book History.