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THE NEW MIDDLE AGES Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts Edited by Sharon M. Rowley The New Middle Ages Series Editor Bonnie Wheeler English and Medieval Studies Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX, USA The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14239 Sharon M. Rowley Editor Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts Editor Sharon M. Rowley Department of English Christopher Newport University Newport News, VA, USA The New Middle Ages ISBN 978-3-030-55723-2 ISBN 978-3-030-55724-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55724-9 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland for Christina von Nolcken A cknowledgments I would like to thank our editors Allie Troyanos and Bonnie Wheeler, along with the Palgrave Macmillan production team, for their help and support throughout the publication process. I also thank my co-authors for their collegiality and dedication, and Elizabeth Solopova for help with some transatlantic details. Some contrib- uting authors have included individual acknowledgments in their chapters. Collectively, we thank the libraries and archives in which we worked, as well as the librarians and archivists who facilitated our efforts in: the British Library, the Bodleian Library, and the Cambridge University Library. Also in Cambridge, we thank the Emmanuel College Library; the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College; and the Wren Library, Trinity College. In Oxford, we thank Balliol, Magdalen, Merton, New College, and Trinity College Libraries. In the US, we thank the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Scheide Collection at Princeton University Library; and the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. We thank the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Foundations at Christopher Newport University for funding the image of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge MS 387. Finally, I thank John Morgan for being himself and for supporting me in all of my endeavors. vii c ontents 1 Introduction 1 Sharon M. Rowley Part I Middle English Clerks, Texts and Readers 13 2 Reading Dreams, Casting the Future and Other Learned Mirths: The Harley Scribe as Proto-Chaucerian Clerk 15 Susanna Fein 3 Griselda as Mary: Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale and Alanus de Rupe’s Marian Exemplum 43 Ann W. Astell and Anne Winston-Allen 4 On Chaucer’s Clerk, His Books and the Value of Education 79 Jenny Adams 5 Freedom and Choice: Postnuptial Negotiation, the Flitch of Bacon Custom, and the Woe of Marriage in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale and The Book of Margery Kempe 101 Rosemary O’Neill ix x CONTENTS Part II The Lollards, Their Saints and Their Texts 125 6 The Making of a Monumental Edition: The Holy Bible…The Earliest English Versions Made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wyclif and His Followers 127 Anne Hudson 7 Paratextual Frames for the Middle English Reader: The Additional Pauline Prologues in Cambridge, Emmanuel College MS 108, a Wycliffite New Testament 151 Matti Peikola 8 Lollard Book Production and Richard Rolle’s English Psalter and Canticles 185 Jill C. Havens 9 Blessed Hildegard: Another Kind of Lollard Saint 211 Fiona Somerset Part III Old English and Its Afterlife 233 10 “In his heart he believed in God, but he could not speak like a man”: Martyrdom, Monstrosity, Speech and the Dog-Headed Saint Christopher 235 Susan M. Kim 11 Hengist’s Tongue: Remembering (Old) English in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis 251 Matthew W. Irvin 12 The Failed Masculinities of Tostig Godwinson 281 Mary Dockray-Miller CONTENTS xi 13 Elizabeth Elstob, Old English Law and the Origin of Anglo-Saxon Studies: A Critical Edition of Samuel Pegge’s “An Historical Account of … the Textus Roffensis” (1767) 311 Andrew Rabin Index 353
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