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Margaret Connolly, Raluca Radulescu (eds). Pages: 355 p. Illustrations:30 b/w, 2 col., 6 tables b/w. Language(s):English. Publication Year:2018. Brepols. ISBN: 978-2-503-56847-8. Hardback --- SUMMARY These fifteen essays, all published here for the first time, explore issues related to the editing and interpretation of Middle English literature. These include the treatment of all types of evidence (variant readings; punctuation; capitalization; rubrication; physical layout), in relation to both manuscript transmission and the transition from manuscript to print. The editorial representation of these and other aspects constitutes an act of textual interpretation at the most fundamental level, which subsequently influences scholarly understanding. Two major fields of writing, religious texts and chronicles, provide the focus of this enquiry. Major works that receive attention include Trevisa s translation of the Polychronicon, the Middle English Brut, Piers Plowman, Love s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, and Mirk s Festial; a wide range of shorter devotional and historical texts, in both verse and prose, is also considered, as are aspects related to the translation of texts into Middle English. Almost all of the contributors are experienced editors of medieval texts. Some contribute further insights about texts they have edited, whilst others offer new editions of previously unpublished works. Collectively these essays foreground the many and varied matters of interpretation that confront the editor of Middle English texts. TABLE OF CONTENTS Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preface: Carl William Marx DEREK PEARSALL Introduction MARGARET CONNOLLY and RALUCA RADULESCU I Interpreting the Textual Evidence Aspects of Method in the Athlone Edition of Piers Plowman A. S. G. EDWARDS Whose Punctuation Is It, Anyway?: A Sampling of Some Manuscripts of the Polychronicon RONALD WALDRON London, British Library, MS Additional 10304: Caesural Pause Marks a Help to the Reader? JANET COWEN Binomials in the Middle English and Early Modern English Versions of Boccaccio s De Mulieribus Claris HANS SAUER II Editing and Interpreting Chronicles The Case of the Cutting Copyist: Or, How London, British Library, MS Sloane 2027 of Robert of Gloucester s　Chronicle lost 4000 Lines ERIK KOOPER English Chronicle Narratives of the Rising of 1381 ANDREW PRESCOTT The Middle English Brut Chronicles and the Modern Editor RALUCA RADULESCU Robert Fabyan s Two Hats: Compiling The Great Chronicle of London and The New Chronicles of England and France JULIA BOFFEY III Editing and Interpreting Religious Texts Verse to Prose or Prose to Verse? A Problematic Text of The Nine Points Best Pleasing to God OLIVER PICKERING Further Thoughts on Editing the Festial SUE POWELL The Edited Text and the Selected Text and the Problem of Critical Editions MARGARET CONNOLLY Problems in Indexing and Editing Middle English Prayer as Illustrated by the Chester Processional Texts VERONICA O MARA The Use of Sources in the Historye of the Patriarks and Caxton s Golden Legend MAYUMI TAGUCHI Revisiting Nychodemus Gospell MARTHA DRIVER Reformations, Reading Practices, and Textual Afterlives: the Pseudo-Bonaventuran Tradition, c. 1400 1600 JOHN J. THOMPSON *** William Marx: List of Publications Index of Manuscripts General Index Tabula Gratulatoria. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 02562
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