The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales write by Charles Abraham Owen. This book was released on 1991. The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Owen investigates what the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales reveal about the way they came into being. [see revs] This study of the manuscripts of the Canterbury Talescalls into question previous efforts to explain the complexities, the different orderings of the tales and the extraordinary shifts in textual affiliations within the manuscripts. Owen sees the manuscripts that survive, most of them collections of all or almost all the tales, as derived from the large number of single tales and small collections that circulated after Chaucer's death. This theory takes issue with all modern editions of the Canterbury Tales, which in Owen's view reflect the effort of medieval scribes and supervisors to make a satisfactory book of the collection of fragments Chaucer left behind. It is this collection of fragments, the authentic Tales of Canterbury by Geoffrey Chaucer, which reflects the different stages of the plan that was still evolving at his death. CHARLES A. OWEN Jr is former Professor of English and Chairman of Medieval Studies at the University of Conneticut.
The Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
The Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales write by Herbert Clarence Schulz. This book was released on 1999. The Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an ideal introduction to the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, covering its context, construction, and provenance, with two dozen full-page color illustrations showing the techniques of the scribes and illuminators.
Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age
Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age write by Benjamin Albritton. This book was released on 2020. Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository's digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment. Through contributions from a large group of distinguished international scholars, the volume assesses the impact of being able to access and interpret these early manuscripts in new ways. The focus on Parker on the Web, a world-class digital repository of diverse medieval manuscripts, comes as that site made its contents Open Access. Exploring the uses of digital representations of medieval texts and their contexts, contributors consider manuscripts from multiple perspectives including production, materiality, and reception. In addition, the volume explicates new interdisciplinary frameworks of analysis for the study of the relationship between texts and their physical contexts, while centring on an appreciation of the opportunities and challenges effected by the digital representation of a tangible object. Approaches extend from the codicological, palaeographical, linguistic, and cultural to considerations of reader reception, image production, and the implications of new technologies for future discoveries. Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age advances the debate in manuscript studies about the role of digital and computational sources and tools. As such, the book will appeal to scholars and students working in the disciplines of Digital Humanities, Medieval Studies, Literary Studies, Library and Information Science, and Book History.
Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text)
Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text) write by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book was released on 1896. Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Lives of the Miller's Tale
The Lives of the Miller's Tale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lives of the Miller's Tale write by Peter G. Beidler. This book was released on 2014-12-02. The Lives of the Miller's Tale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With his Miller's Tale, Chaucer transformed a colorless Middle Dutch account into the lively, dramatic story of raunchy Nicholas, sexy Alison, foolish John and squeamish Absolon. This book focuses on the ways Chaucer made his narrative more effective through dialogue, scene division, music, visual effects and staging. The author pays special attention to the description of John the carpenter's house, the suspension of the three tubs from the beams, and the famous shot-window through which the story's bawdy climax is enacted. The book's second half covers more than 30 of the tale's retellings--translations, adaptations, bowdlerized versions for children, coloring books, novels, musicals, plays and films--and examines the ways the retellers have followed Chaucer in dramatizing the story, giving it new life on stage and screen. The Miller's Tale has had many lives--it promises to have many more.
