Overview: Examines questions of authority, authenticity, and textual stability of medieval texts.Illustrates how medieval English scribes acted as scriveners, redactors, translators, editors, and authors.Consid.This collection of essays explores the literary legacy of medieval England by examining the writers, editors and exemplars of medieval English texts. In order to better understand the human agency, creativity and forms of sanctity of medieval England, these essays investigate both the production of medieval texts and the people whose hands and minds created, altered and/or published the
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