{"product_id":"the-making-and-meaning-of-a-medieval-manuscript-interpreting-ms-bodley-851-9781843847465","title":"The Making and Meaning of a Medieval Manuscript: Interpreting MS Bodley 851","description":"\u003cb\u003eDevelops a method for placing book-historical evidence in dialogue with literary meaning through a detailed investigation of a MS Bodley 851.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow do you read a medieval book? And what is the relationship between the study of manuscripts as material artifacts and the study of their textual contents? This book develops a method for placing book-historical evidence in dialogue with literary meaning. Medieval manuscripts do not simply witness the texts they contain: through the process of their making, they preserve and generate knowledge about literature itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCentral to the expression of method in this study is a detailed investigation of an immensely complex composite manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 851. This manuscript survives as an important representative of textual cultures popular in late-medieval England: it attests the work of at least eight scribal agents and contains an infamous scribal version of \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman \u003c\/i\u003e(Z-text), the sole surviving copy of Walter Map's \u003ci\u003eDe nugis curialium\u003c\/i\u003e, and an array of satirical Anglo-Latin poetry, including the \u003ci\u003eApocalypsis goliae episcopi\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSpeculum stultorum\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Bridlington \u003ci\u003eProphecy\u003c\/i\u003e. Close attention to the production of Bodley 851 underpins critical examinations of fragmentary misogamy, the construction of literary sequences, and the extent of pseudonymous authorship in the manuscript record.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSawyer, Thomas C.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - THOMAS C. SAWYER lectures at the University of Chicago. He designs board games.","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359124947218,"sku":"9781843847465","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a9ab085c-a006-4ee9-abe0-76465969732f.jpg?v=1749581480","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-making-and-meaning-of-a-medieval-manuscript-interpreting-ms-bodley-851-9781843847465","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}