The Manuscripts Of Piers Plowman The B Version

Author : C. David Benson,Lynne Sandra Blanchfield
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859915018

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The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman by C. David Benson,Lynne Sandra Blanchfield Pdf

The B-version of Piers Plowman, probably the only version authorised by Langland, is the one most frequently read today, and the most influential form of the poem. This catalogue of the 18 extant manuscripts, now located in Cambridge, London, Oxford, Tokyo, and San Marino, California, offers both individual manuscript descriptions and a record of the annotations. The new and detailed codicological descriptions include information on provenance and ownership; a full list of the contents; and a description of the physical make-up and the presentation of each manuscript. The substantial first full account of the various textual annotations in each manuscript (whether produced by the original scribes or later readers) provides the best record available of how Piers Plowman was understood by its earliest audience.

Author : William Langland
Publisher : Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1941331149

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Piers Plowman by William Langland Pdf

This edition, the first of its kind in Piers Plowman studies, aims to establish the archetypal text of the B-version of the poem, the ancestor of all extant manuscripts. The editors claim that this can be determined with certainty in the majority of lines by examining the relationship between the best copies of the alpha and beta families of the B-version stemma. Past editors have attempted to reconstruct the authorial text by extensive emendation, but Burrow and Turville-Petre claim that the archetype was not nearly as corrupt as previously maintained. In Piers Plowman: The B-Version Archetype the editors have opened a new chapter in the study of the B-text tradition.

Author : C. David Benson,Lynne S. Blanchfield
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843841851

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The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman: the B-Version by C. David Benson,Lynne S. Blanchfield Pdf

The B-version of 'Piers Plowman', perhaps the only version authorised by Langland, is the one most frequently read today, and the most influential form of the poem. This catalogue of the extant medieval manuscripts, now locaed in Cambridge, London, Oxford, Tokyo, and San Marino, California, offers both individual manuscript descriptions and a record of the annotations. The new and detailed codicological descriptions include information on provenance and ownership, a full list of the contents, and a description of the physical make-up and the presentation of each manuscript. The first published accounts of the various textual annotations on each manuscript (whether produced by the original scribes or later readers) provides the best record available of how 'piers plowman' was understoon by its earliest audience. Professor C. DAVID BENSON teaches in the English Department at the University of Connecticut; Dr LYNNE BLANCHFIELD is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University.

Author : William Langland,George Economou
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0812215613

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William Langland's "Piers Plowman" by William Langland,George Economou Pdf

"A gifted poet has given us an astute, adroit, vigorous, inviting, eminently readable translation. . . . The challenging gamut of Langland's language . . . has here been rendered with blessed energy and precision. Economou has indeed Done-Best."—Allen Mandelbaum

Author : William Langland
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520062302

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Piers Plowman B Version by William Langland Pdf

Author : William Langland
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0192836463

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Piers Plowman by William Langland Pdf

This new translation of the B-text is provided with an Introduction and extensive Notes which place the work in its contemporary setting and offer a full interpretative commentary on the poem.

Author : William Langland
Publisher : Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1941331130

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Piers Plowman by William Langland Pdf

This edition, the first of its kind in Piers Plowman studies, aims to establish the archetypal text of the B-version of the poem, the ancestor of all extant manuscripts. The editors claim that this can be determined with certainty in the majority of lines by examining the relationship between the best copies of the alpha and beta families of the B-version stemma. Past editors have attempted to reconstruct the authorial text by extensive emendation, but Burrow and Turville-Petre claim that the archetype was not nearly as corrupt as previously maintained. In Piers Plowman: The B-Version Archetype the editors have opened a new chapter in the study of the B-text tradition.

Author : Sarah Wood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781914049071

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Piers Plowman and Its Manuscript Tradition by Sarah Wood Pdf

The first full survey of crucial witnesses to the reception of Piers Plowman.

Author : Jessica Brantley
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812298451

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Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms by Jessica Brantley Pdf

In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript culture that uses the artifacts themselves to open some of the most vital theoretical questions in medieval literary studies. With nearly 200 illustrations, many of them in color, the book offers both a broad survey of the physical forms and cultural histories of manuscripts and a dozen case studies of particularly significant literary witnesses, including the Beowulf manuscript, the St. Albans Psalter, the Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, and The Book of Margery Kempe. Practical discussions of parchment, scripts, decoration, illustration, and bindings mix with consideration of such conceptual categories as ownership, authorship, language, miscellaneity, geography, writing, editing, mediation, illustration, and performance—as well as of the status of the literary itself. Each case study includes an essay orienting the reader to particularly productive categories of analysis and a selected bibliography for further research. Because a high-quality digital surrogate exists for each of the selected manuscripts, fully and freely available online, readers can gain access to the artifacts in their entirety, enabling further individual exploration and facilitating the book’s classroom use. Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms aims to inspire a broad group of readers with some of the excitement of literary manuscript studies in the twenty-first century. The interpretative frameworks surrounding each object will assist everyone in thinking through the implications of manuscript culture more generally, not only for the deeper study of the literature of the Middle Ages, but also for a better understanding of book cultures of any era, including our own.

Author : Matthew Z. Heintzelman,Barbara I. Gusick,Martin Walsh
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571134264

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Fifteenth-Century Studies by Matthew Z. Heintzelman,Barbara I. Gusick,Martin Walsh Pdf

Annual volume of essays treating topics ranging from physical impairment to narrative afterlife and time.

Author : Lawrence Warner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812205800

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The Lost History of "Piers Plowman" by Lawrence Warner Pdf

Despite the recent outpouring of scholarship on Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner contends, we know much less about the poem's production, transmission, and readership than one might think. When did William Langland write each of the three versions of the poem, and when did they enter wide circulation? What role did scribes and other agents play in these processes? The Lost History of "Piers Plowman" engages with these questions to bring about a fundamental shift in our understanding of the genesis and development of the Middle English poem. According to received history, the poem exists in three distinct, chronological versions, the A, B, and C texts, with most scholars agreeing that Langland completed the B text—the version most familiar to modern readers—around 1377-78. Challenging much of the prevalent wisdom about the poem, Warner argues that the received B text is not an integral poem aligned with a single author but, rather, two groups of manuscripts, each of which, because of scribal activities, takes on varying amounts of what we now call C version matter. Through close textual analysis, he reveals that the B text is a conflation of an ur-B text with a collection of passages that belong to the C version of circa 1390, demonstrating that the circulation of the C text actually predates that of the B. The Lost History of "Piers Plowman" is a groundbreaking and provocative work that establishes an entirely new paradigm for the study of one of the central works of Middle English literature. It will be of interest to scholars and students of textual studies, editorial theory, and medieval history.

Author : Derek Pearsall
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153017

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New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies by Derek Pearsall Pdf

Influential scholars from Britain and North America discuss future directions in rapidly expanding field of manuscript study. The study of manuscripts is one of the most active areas of current research in medieval studies: manuscripts are the basic primary material evidence for literary scholars, historians and art-historians alike, and there has been an explosion of interest over the past twenty years. Manuscript study has developed enormously: codices are no longer treated as inert witnesses to a culture whose character has already been determined by the modern scholar, but are active participants in a process of exploration and discovery. The articles collected here discuss the future of this process and vital questions about manuscript study for tomorrow's explorers. They deal with codicology and book production, with textual criticism, with the material structure of the medieval book, with the relation of manuscripts to literary culture, to social history and to the medieval theatre, and with the importance to manuscript study of the emerging technology of computerised digitisation and hypertext display. The essays provide an end-of-millennium perspective on the most vigorous developments in a rapidly expanding field of study. Contributors: A.I. Doyle, C. David Benson, Martha W. Driver, J.P. Gumbert, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Linne R. Mooney, Eckehard Simon, Alison Stones, John Thompson. DEREK PEARSALL is former Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies, York, and Professor of English at Harvard University.

Author : Míċeál F. Vaughan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421402314

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Piers Plowman by Míċeál F. Vaughan Pdf

The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives that make up this work address a number of pressing political, social, moral, and educational issues of the late Middle Ages. Míceál F. Vaughan presents a fresh edition of the A version, an earlier and shorter version of this great work. Unlike the B and C versions, there is no modern, affordable edition of the A version available. For the first time in decades, students and scholars of medieval literature now have access to this important work. Vaughan’s clean, uncluttered text is accompanied by ample glossing of difficult Middle English words. An expansive introduction, which includes a narrative summary of the poem, textual notes, detailed endnotes, and a select bibliography frame the text, making this edition ideal for classroom use. This is the first classroom edition of the A version since Thomas A. Knott and David C. Fowler’s celebrated 1952 publication. Based on an early-fifteenth-century manuscript from the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, Vaughan’s text offers a unique rendition of the poem, and it is the first modern edition not to attribute the poem to William Langland. By conservatively editing one important witness of Piers Plowman, Vaughan takes a new generation of students to an early version of this great medieval poem.

Author : Graham D. Caie,Denis Renevey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134238460

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Medieval Texts in Context by Graham D. Caie,Denis Renevey Pdf

This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating the various interconnections between medieval material and literary traditions. The contributors’ work aids reconstruction of the period’s writing practices, as contextual factors surrounding the texts provide clues to the ‘manuscript experience’. Topics such as scribal practice and textual providence, glosses, rubrics, page lay-out, and even page ruling, are addressed in a manner illustrative and suggestive of textual practice of the time, while the volume further considers the interface between the manuscript and early textual communities. Looking at medieval inventories of books no longer extant, and addressing questions such as ownership, reading practices and textual production, Medieval Texts in Context addresses the fundamental interpretative issue of how scribe-editors worked with an eye to their intended audience. An understanding of the world inhabited by the scribal community is made use of to illuminate the rationale behind the manufacture of devotional texts. The combination of approaches to the medieval vernacular manuscript presented in this volume is unique, marking a major, innovative contribution to manuscript studies.

Author : William Langland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:49015000562513

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Piers Plowman: The B Version by William Langland Pdf