John Trevisa's Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, C. 1400

ISBN-13: 9780192896902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 304 str.

Emily Steiner

Recenzje

A brilliant work of scholarship that carefully (and at times playfully) examines Trevisa's corpus of work--including his vernacular renderings of lengthy prose treatises, paratextual finding aids, and accumulative annotations--to identify the "properties" of a rhythmical and scientific style that (in)forms the very makings of English literature and information culture...For those seeking to understand the development of vernacular information culture in late medieval and early renaissance England, I cannot imagine a better figure to study than Trevisa and a better scholarly companion than this marvelous book.

O autorze

Emily Steiner is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her BA from Brown University and her PhD from Yale University. She is author of Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature and Reading Piers Plowman. She has also co-edited The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England, with Candace Barrington; Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts, with Lynn Ransom; and The Cambridge History of History Writing: England and Britain, 500-1500 with Jennifer Jahner and Elizabeth Tyler. She is Director of the International Piers Plowman Society.