Anthologies and Miscellanies

Abstract

This entry focuses mainly on the later medieval period, from c. 1350 onward, when commercial and domestic book production flourished and when vernacular texts began to circulate alongside works in French, Latin, and other languages in manuscript volumes that might be described as anthologies or miscellanies. It discusses some of the history of scholarly debate around how to describe manuscripts that are multi‐text and some of the new directions in scholarly work on these volumes, as well as examining in brief some of the most notable anthologies and miscellanies that are extant from the period.