The History of the Book

Gillespie, Alexandra

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“…17 17 For a fuller discussion of this point and book culture vs. print culture (from the perspective that print is an interesting technology, but not in itself influential enough to provoke or sustain a significant cultural shift), see Gillespie and Dane. …”

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A Medieval French Book in an Early Modern English World: Christine de Pisan’s Livre de la Cité des Dames and Women Readers in the Age of Print

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2012

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The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes is Bryan Anslay’s 1521 translation of Christine de Pisan’s Le Livre de la Cité des Dames. Its form as an English printed book had implications for its readership and reception: Christine’s emphases on rhetoric, reading, and scholarship dovetailed with the spread in England of more accessible books and education. Given the cultural context of the early sixteenth century – a time during which print was beginning to compete with manuscript, women were becoming an important segment of the market for books, and Protestant values were negotiating coexistence with Catholic culture – we can deduce that Anslay’s version of Christine’s text resonated more strongly with sixteenth‐century English readers than the original did with its fifteenth‐century French audience, gaining more sympathy for Christine’s goal of elevating the status of women.

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“…Although Gillespie deliberately shies away from an engagement with form qua new formalism, her article is concerned explicitly with the literariness of a text and the manner by which that can be recovered through those formal features framed by the manuscript in question. Knowing there existed a scribe named Adam Pinkhurst does not tell us what the poem ‘Chauciers Wordes’ means nor how it means it: instead it reveals that neither literature nor book history can fully resolve the ‘perennial human desire for origins and endings’ (Gillespie 272).…”

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New Formalism and the Forms of Middle English Literary Texts

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2011

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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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A Handbook of Middle English Studies

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The History of the Book

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A Medieval French Book in an Early Modern English World: Christine de Pisan’s Livre de la Cité des Dames and Women Readers in the Age of Print

A Medieval French Book in an Early Modern English World: Christine de Pisan’s Livre de la Cité des Dames and Women Readers in the Age of Print

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