"Print Culture and the Medieval Author is a book about books. Examining hundreds of early printed books and many late medieval manuscripts, Alexandra Gillespie writes a bibliographical history of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his follower John Lydgate in the century after the ar…
Examining hundreds of early printed books containing works by Chaucer, the 'father' of English poetry, and his much-maligned follower, John Lydgate. She demonstrates that the shift from manuscript to print was part of the controversial process by which Chaucer earned his exclusi…
Alexandra Gillespie takes a new look at hundreds of neglected old books containing works by Chaucer, the 'father' of English poetry, and his much-maligned follower, John Lydgate. She demonstrates that the shift from manuscript to print was part of the controversial process by wh…
This dissertation surveys the various retellings of the ancient legend of Thebes in the Middle Ages from the twelfth to the fifteenth century: the OF Roman de Thèbes, Giovanni Boccaccio's Teseida, Geoffrey Chaucer's Anelida and Arcite and Knight's Tale, and John Lydgate's Siege …
