Performing Manuscript Culture : : Poetry, Materiality, and Authorship in Thomas Hoccleve’s "Regement of Princes" / / Elisabeth Kempf.

This study conceives of Thomas Hoccleve’s Regement of Princes (1410-1413) as an essentially performative text, one that expresses its awareness of the manuscript culture in which it is so firmly rooted. The openness of manuscripts is a recurring subject in the Regement and is not only expressed thro...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Trends in Medieval Philology , 33
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 207 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction: the Regement of Princes as a Manuscript Fiction
  • 2 “Hoccleve, fadir myn, men clepen me”: Textual Biography in the Regement of Princes
  • 3. “That text I undirstonde thus alwey”: Glosinge in the Regement of Princes
  • 4. “Of his persone, I have heere his liknesse Do make”: Mediality and Conceptions of Authorship in the Regement of Princes
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Works Cited
  • Images
  • Indices