Transmission and transformation in the Middle Ages

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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 …

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…

The lost tradition

Essays on Middle English alliterative poetry

John Scattergood

Four stresses, a line broken in two by a caesura, and a pattern of alliteration linking the two half-lines were features of the staple manner of Anglo-Saxon ver…

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…

Transmission and transformation in the Middle Ages

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