Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and Their Books 1473-1557 (Oxford English Monographs)

by Alexandra Gillespie (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $107.48

  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 which Chaucer earned his exclusive place in English literary history.