Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book

ISBN-13: 9780192843814 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str.

Elaine Treharne

Recenzje

Elaine Treharne shows her unparalleled expertise in manuscript research, early textuality and other related areas in Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts. The volume's wide ambit testifies to it being the product of long reflection and work...it is an outstanding and welcome contribution to the ample field of Medieval Studies and will be of interest not only to scholars and students but also to general readers, who may feel curious to peruse inspiring academic books like the one reviewed here.

O autorze

Elaine Treharne is Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities, Professor of English, and Robert K. Packard University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. She is a medieval literature and manuscript specialist, with expertise in the long history of human communication and archival studies. She has published over thirty books and sixty articles, mostly focused on Old and Middle English texts in their manuscript contexts, and also on the digital aspect of early textuality. She is interested in the record of human experience: how it is transmitted, who is remembered, and how the past is memorialised.