Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts.

.. for undergraduate teachers like myself who have struggled to bring codicology into the classroom, this book is a gift.... the authors do an excellent job of building characters around the shadowy figures of scribes, compilers, illuminators, binders, rubricators and annotators, explaining their impact on literature.... Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts does an excellent job of...working to break down barriers between manuscript, print and digital cultures as well as distinctions between medieval and contemporary, author and reader, student and specialist, and elite (i.e. manuscript-holding) and non-elite institutions.

-- Janine Rogers * Review of English Studies *

[A]n attractively laid out and richly illustrated book..This book will be of interest to the seasoned manuscript scholar as to the neophyte.

-- Julia Boffey * Times Literary Supplement *

Few universities in the US and the UK are able to offer their graduate students with properly supervised access to medieval manuscripts, despite the demand for such training. This superb volume fills a much-needed gap...The authors offer not just a masterly synthesis of the most recent (and even forthcoming) scholarship; they also break new ground.

-- Ruth Evans * Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research *

One of the crucial accomplishments of this volume is establishing without a doubt the very foundational nature of manuscript work to all scholarship on the Middle Ages. In a volume that devotes itself to a pedagogical mission, self-consciously unpacking its freight for both novices and experts alike, Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts provides a great service to us all... Like the lectern-sized Riverside edition Kerby-Fulton discusses, It will become a standard in the field for both teaching and research purposes, and will hopefully drive a new generation of scholars into manuscript study.

-- Kathleen E. Kennedy * The Medieval Review *

The book has an engaging, conversational tone. Reading it is like being in a seminar taught by three excellent scholars deeply engaged in a burgeoning field and eager to cultivate new approaches and voices.... Fittingly for a work that examines book design as an intellectual enterprise, the book is beautifully produced and very generously illustrated with excellent color reproductions of the widest variety of works.... In sum, the present work is a sterling demonstration of what the history of the book has to offer literary studies.

-- Erik Inglis * The Burlington Magazine *

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton is The Notre Dame Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author most recently of Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England, which won the Haskins Medal from the Medieval Academy of America. Maidie Hilmo, an affiliate of the University of Victoria, is the author most recently of Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts: From the Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer. Kerby-Fulton and Hilmo are coeditors of The Medieval Professional Reader at Work: Evidence from Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and Gower and The Medieval Reader: Reception and Cultural History in the Late Medieval Manuscript. Linda Olson is a writer and developer of distance education courses in English literature for the Open Learning Program at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia. She is the coeditor with Kathryn Kerby-Fulton of Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages.

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ISBN 13	9780801478307
ISBN 10	0801478308
Title	Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts
Author	Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Year published	2012-09-18
Number of pages	424
Prizes	Winner of 2013 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title.
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