Research Catalog

Title

Editing and interpretation of Middle English texts : essays in honour of William Marx / edited by Margaret Connolly and Raluca Radulescu.

Publication

• Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Connolly, Margaret, 1965-
• Radulescu, Raluca L., 1974-
• Marx, C. William

Description

xix, 351 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

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 Some contribute further insights about texts they have edited, whilst others offer new editions of previously unpublished works.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."--

Series Statement

Texts and transitions ; volume 12

Uniform Title

Texts and transitions ; v. 12.

Subject

• Marx, C. William
• 1100-1500
• English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Criticism, Textual
• Manuscripts, English (Middle)
• English literature > Middle English

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes a bibliography of the publications of C. William Marx--Pages 331-335.
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

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 / Susan 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 Gosepll / Martha Driver -- Reformations, reading practices, and textual afterlives: the pseudo-Bonaventuran tradition, c. 1400-1600 / John J. Thompson -- William Marx: list of publications.

Call Number

JFE 20-855

ISBN

• 9782503568478
• 2503568475

OCLC

1007563846

Title

Editing and interpretation of Middle English texts : essays in honour of William Marx / edited by Margaret Connolly and Raluca Radulescu.

Publisher

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Texts and transitions ; volume 12

Texts and transitions ; v. 12.

Bibliography

Includes a bibliography of the publications of C. William Marx--Pages 331-335.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chronological Term

1100-1500

Added Author

Connolly, Margaret, 1965- editor. Editor

Radulescu, Raluca L., 1974- editor. Editor

Marx, C. William, honouree. Honoree

Research Call Number

JFE 20-855