IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 119: Reconstructing Written Rules?: The Textual Afterlives of Manuscripts, Print Editions, and Personal Letters
Monday 9 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Department of English Language, University of Glasgow / Glasgow Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Glasgow |
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| Organiser: | Johanna Green, School of Critical Studies (English Language), University of Glasgow |
| Moderator/Chair: | Colin Mackenzie, School of Critical Studies (English Language), University of Glasgow |
| Paper 119-a | Cracking the Code?: The (Un)Conscious Rules of Textual Division in the Exeter Book (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 119-b | The Contradictions and Complexities of Editing Medieval Texts in Renaissance England (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Printing History |
| Paper 119-c | Following Rules to the Letter?: Spelling, Punctuation, and Letter-Writing Conventions in the Paston Letters (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This panel will consider the rules and conventions used by scribes, printers, and letter writers in producing three different modes of text: an Anglo-Saxon poetic manuscript; early modern printed editions of Lydgate and Langland; and the letters of the original Pastons and later generations of their family. In so doing, it will analyse the 'textual afterlives' of these texts as their perceived rules and methods of production are reconsidered by modern scholarship. |