Adam Pinkhurst, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Hengwrt Manuscript of the<i>Canterbury Tales</i>

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“…An example is Trinity R.3.2, and coincident textual and codicological boundaries suggest the manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde as another example (Hanna 1996). It has been proposed that the text of the Canterbury Tales too was so transmitted (Horobin 2010), the partially ordered format of the exemplars giving rise to the differences in tale order in evidence between the various manuscripts with early textual contents.…”

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Gamelyn’s Place among the Early Exemplars for Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Thaisen

2012

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Application of standard techniques from natural language processing on N-gram models of spelling enables quantification of the similarity between Middle English texts despite their lexical differences. Three studies employing similarity metrics confirm that a scribe's spelling always is biased in the direction of his exemplars. This bias opens up a window on the number of scribes behind the exemplars for a text executed in a single hand, when other variables such as authorship and poetic form are held constant. A fourth study addresses nine manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer's poem the Canterbury Tales with early textual contents. A one-way ANOVA/Tukey's Range Test shows that none of these manuscripts is based on exemplars written in more than three hands, when allowance is made for variation due to poetic form. The results point to unified exemplars for the full text as the normal format for the poem's transmission. The discussion suggests that the final tale ordering found in the first manuscripts is a product of collaboration between the poem's first two scribes, probably working after Chaucer's death and spuriously adding the Tale of Gamelyn.

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Gamelyn’s Place among the Early Exemplars for Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Thaisen

2012

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“…This essay explores the intellectual background that led us to this question while also offering new directions for research espoused by participants of the conference, such as Martha Rust, Jessica Brantley, D. Vance Smith, and Simon Horobin, among others.…”

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New Formalism and the Forms of Middle English Literary Texts

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Buchanan

2011

Literature Compass

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Recent work in Middle English literature addresses the emerging relationship between formal analysis and book history. This article, emerging from the 2009 Conference on Editorial Problems in Toronto, seeks to clarify the way in which formalist approaches intersect with trends in English literary manuscript studies. How, we ask, can the lively field of book history take new direction through contact with the ‘new formalisms’ articulated in literary studies? More precisely, how does the form of the medieval book produce literary meaning in a distinctive and historicizable manner? We explore critical approaches to the formal features of medieval manuscripts, addressing medieval and modern theories of the book’s form, the relationship between written and oral forms of texts, the dialect of scribes, authorial composition of manuscripts, scribal corrections, the layout and illustration, and the binding of the codex. We suggest that close readings of manuscript form can shed light on aspects of texts obscured by the printing technology and formatting changes of modern editions. Furthermore, we point to new avenues for contextualizing the book within late medieval literary culture.

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Chaucer: Shorter Poems

Cawsey

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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Chaucer's “Short Poems” include complaints, love lyrics, and philosophical, religious, and political short verse. They are primarily written in courtly lyric forms taken from the French tradition, but most do not have direct French sources. The short poem that has drawn the most scholarly attention is the poem to “Adam Scriveyn,” both in terms of positing the actual scribe to be Adam Pinkhurst and more literary approaches which analyze the metaphors and images used. Other poems have garnered attention in terms of source study, formalism, gender study, historicism, and more.

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Adam Pinkhurst, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Hengwrt Manuscript of theCanterbury Tales

Cited by 24 publications

References 4 publications

Gamelyn’s Place among the Early Exemplars for Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Gamelyn’s Place among the Early Exemplars for Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

New Formalism and the Forms of Middle English Literary Texts

Chaucer: Shorter Poems

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