Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.

This volume is about the book itself, as shaped and made by medieval scribes and as conditioned by the cultural understandings that were present in the world wh

"A book about books - how the medieval world in which they were conceived shaped the objects we know today. This volume is about the book itself, as shaped and

Based on new readings of some of the least-read texts by some of the best-known scribes of later medieval England, Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History

Daniel Wakelin introduces and reinterprets the misunderstood and overlooked craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes involved in making some