In enigmate

Transmission and generation in medieval and Renaissance literature

Essays in honour of John Scattergood

Karen Hodder & Brendan O'Connell, editors

This collection of essays focuses on the processes of intellectual transmission in medieval and Renaissance literature, paying particular attention to the ways …

Heresy and orthodoxy in early English literature, 1350–1680

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & John Flood, editors

English literature from Chaucer to Milton was produced in a culture where accusations of heresy were frequently made, and where the meaning of orthodoxy was uns…

Occasions for writing

Essays on medieval and renaissance literature, politics and society

John Scattergood

In 1974, in an introduction to Ben Jonson’s poetry, Thom Gunn wrote: ‘all poetry is occasional: whether the occasion is an external event like a birthday or a d…

Manuscripts and ghosts

Essays on the transmission of medieval and early renaissance literature

John Scattergood

This collection of essays which concentrates mainly on the late medieval period in England, explores how manuscript books were made, who made them, who owned th…

Studies in late medieval and early renaissance texts in honour of John Scattergood

Anne Marie D'Arcy & Alan J. Fletcher, editors

Essays published in honour of the Trinity College-based scholar who has been at the forefront of Middle English studies in Ireland for many years.

Anne Marie D…

John Skelton

The career of an early Tudor poet

John Scattergood

John Skelton (c.1460–1529) wrote poetry and some prose, in Latin and English, for almost forty years, circulating his work through manuscript copies and the new…