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Book SynopsisThe monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue--in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science--but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism.The Middle English Book addresses a series of questions about the copying and cir
Trade Review...this book's insights into literary culture have the potential to enrich approaches to bibliographic studies beyond the field. * The Review of English Studies *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Nomenclature 2: The Elaborate Book 3: The Streamlined Book 4: The Evolving Book 5: The D. I. Y. Book 6: The Proliferation of Scribes, I 7: The Proliferation of Scribes, II Conclusion Coda Appendix: The Manuscripts in My Corpus
