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Robert Thornton and his books : essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton manuscripts /

"The Yorkshire landowner Robert Thornton (c.1397- c.1465) copied the contents of two important manuscripts, Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91 (the "Lincoln manuscript"), and London, British Library, MS Additional 31042 (the "London manuscript") in the middle decades of the fifteenth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fein, Susanna, 1950- (Editor ), Johnston, Michael (Michael Robert), 1977- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: York [England] : Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, New York : York Medieval Press ; in association with the Boydell Press, [2014]
Colección:Manuscript culture in the British Isles ; 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The cheese and the worms and Robert Thornton / Michael Johnston
  • The contents of Robert Thornton's manuscripts / Susanna Fein
  • Robert Thornton, gentleman, reader, and scribe / George R. Keiser
  • The Thornton manuscripts and book production in York / Joel Fredell
  • The text of the alliterative Morte Arthure : a prolegomenon for a future edition / Ralph Hanna and Thorlac Turville-Petre
  • "The rosselde spere to his herte rynnes" : religious violence in the alliterative Morte Arthure and the Lincoln Thornton manuscript / Mary Michele Poellinger
  • Constantinian Christianity in the London Thornton manuscript : the codicological and linguistic evidence of Thornton's intentions / Michael Johnston
  • Apocryphal romance in the London Thornton manuscript / Julie Nelson Couch
  • Thornton's remedies and the practices of medical reading / Julie Orlemanski
  • Afterword: Robert Thornton country / Rosalind Field with Dav Smith.