Professor%20Daniel%20Wakelin: List of publications
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Written in haste: practical letters and everyday criticism in the fifteenth century
March 2024
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Journal article
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ELH
FFR
Redesigning the medieval book
August 2023
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Chapter
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Creating Playful First Encounters with the Pre-Modern Past
William Worcester, The Boke of Noblesse and the English Texts from its Codicil
August 2023
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Scholarly edition
Les autographes littéraires et les écritures ordinaires en Angleterre à la fin du Moyen Âge
March 2023
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Journal article
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Genesis
<p><strong>Français</strong></p>
En ce qui concerne la littérature anglaise, il existe peu de manuscrits autographes de l’époque précédant l’imprimerie, lorsque la plupart des manuscrits étaient des copies de bonne qualité destinées à être diffusées, et que des techniques éphémères, telles que les tablettes de cire, étaient utilisées pour composer. Il existe cependant quelques manuscrits autographes qui témoignent de la révision textuelle minutieuse des auteurs médiévaux. De plus, parce que les scribes qui copiaient les œuvres littéraires modifiaient souvent les textes qu’ils copiaient (la « variance » de Bernard Cerquiglini), ces copies contiennent des passages de ce que nous pourrions appeler une composition autographe. En outre, parce que la fin du Moyen Âge a connu une expansion massive de l’écriture « pragmatique » ou « ordinaire » (Paul Bertrand), ces écrits ont également produit des autographes dans les genres médicaux ou épistolaires, même s’ils ne sont pas « littéraires » à proprement parler. On pourrait suggérer que, pour les auteurs célèbres, nous avons une littérature sans autographes, et que, pour les écrivains ordinaires, nous avons des autographes qui élargissent notre conception des catégories de personnes engagées dans l’activité littéraire.
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<p><strong>English</strong></p>
There are few autograph manuscripts in English literary archives from before the age of printing: most manuscripts were fair copies meant to be distributed and were composed through ephemeral techniques, such as wax tablets. There are, however, some autograph manuscripts that bear witness to the painstaking textual revision of medieval authors. Also, since the scribes who copied literary works often modified the texts that they copied (“variance,” in the words of Bernard Cerquiglini), these copies contain passages of what we could call autograph composition. Moreover, because the end of the Middle Ages saw a massive expansive of “practical” or “ordinary” writing (Paul Bertrand), these works also produced autographs in the medical and epistolary genres, even if they are not strictly speaking literary. We argue, then, that while there are few if any autograph manuscripts for celebrated authors, there are, for ordinary writers, autographs that enlarge our idea of the types of people engaged in literary activity.
Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England Making English Literary Manuscripts, 1400-1500
May 2022
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Book
For students, researchers and librarians, this book offers revelatory perspectives on the activities of late medieval scribes.
Literary Criticism
A new age of photography: ‘DIY digitization’ in manuscript studies
March 2021
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Journal article
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Anglia
Since c. 2008 many special collections libraries have allowed researchers to take photographs of medieval manuscripts: this article calls such self-service photography ‘DIY digitization’. The article considers some possible effects of this digital tool for research on book history, especially on palaeography, comparing it in particular to the effects of institutionally-led digitization. ‘DIY digitization’ does assist with access to manuscripts, but less easily and with less open data than institutional digitization does. Instead, it allows the researcher’s intellectual agenda to guide the selection of what to photograph. The photographic process thereby becomes part of the process of analysis. Photography by the researcher is therefore limited by subjectivity but it also helps to highlight the role of subjective perspectives in scholarship. It can also balance a breadth or depth of perspective in ways different from institutional digitization. It could in theory foster increased textual scholarship but in practice has fostered attention to the materiality of the text.
librarianship, perspective, digitization, manuscripts, palaeography, materiality, digital photography, FFR
Reading and Understanding Scripts
September 2020
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Chapter
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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts
Urinals and hunting traps: curating fifteenth-century pragmatic books
April 2020
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Journal article
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New Medieval Literatures
A Midde English Translation from Petrarch's 'Secretum'
August 2018
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Scholarly edition
Not Diane: the risk of error in Chaucerian classicism
March 2018
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Journal article
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Exemplaria
When Chaucer, Lydgate, and their contemporaries made classical characters and classical allusions an important part of English poetry, they risked confusing scribes and readers. In the vein of recent studies of scribes as readers, this article explores the mistakes of scribes in copying and comprehending those details. In addition, this article explores the ways that poets’ phrasing implies awareness of those risks and seeks to mitigate them. The article thus presents the creation of the text as a coproduction between agents, which might be understood in the framework of pragmatics, the analysis of speech acts in social context. These problems in transmission, and the forestalling of them, first reveal how classicism, which later became a monumental tradition, was a risky interaction in some of its earliest phases in English poetry. Second, more briefly and tentatively, these problems suggest the risks of writing for scribal transmission in general.
Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and medieval medicine. How did scribes choose to arrange the words and images on the page in each manuscript? How did they preserve, clarify and illustrate writing in English? What visual guides were given to early readers of English in how to understand or use their books? 'Designing English' is an overview of eight centuries of graphic design in manuscripts and inscriptions from the Anglo-Saxon to the early Tudor periods. Working beyond the traditions established for Latin, scribes of English needed to be more inventive, so that each book was an opportunity for redesigning. 'Designing English' focuses on the craft, agency and intentions of scribes, painters and engravers in the practical processes of making pages and artefacts. It weighs up the balance of ingenuity and copying, practicality and imagination in their work. It surveys bilingual books, format, ordinatio, decoration and reading aloud, as well as inscriptions on objects, monuments and buildings. With over ninety illustrations, drawn especially from the holdings of the Bodleian Library in Old English and Middle English, 'Designing English' gives a comprehensive overview of English books and other material texts across the Middle Ages.
Revolting Remedies from the Middle Ages
November 2017
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Scholarly edition
Paleography
August 2017
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Chapter
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The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain
Bringing together scholarship on multilingual and intercultural medieval Britain like never before, The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain comprises over 600 authoritative entries spanning key figures, contexts and influences in the literatures of Britain from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries.
“Thys ys my boke”: Imagining the Owner in the Book
March 2016
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Chapter
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Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England
Literary Criticism
Early Humanism in England
January 2016
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Chapter
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The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature. VOlume I: 800-1558
Le déclin du multilinguisme dans The Boke of Noblesse de William Worcester et dans son codicille
January 2015
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Journal article
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Médiévales
Scribal Correction and Literary Craft: English Manuscripts 1375-1510
November 2014
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Book
This extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate, and on prose works such as chronicles, religious instruction and practical lore. His materials are the variants and corrections found in manuscripts, phenomena usually studied only by editors or palaeographers, but his method is the close reading and interpretation typical of literary criticism. From the corrections emerge often overlooked aspects of English literary thinking in the late Middle Ages: scribes, readers and authors seek, though often fail to achieve, invariant copying, orderly spelling, precise diction, regular verse and textual completeness. Correcting reveals their impressive attention to scribal and literary craft - its rigour, subtlety, formalism and imaginativeness - in an age with little other literary criticism in English.
The Production of Books in England 1350-1500
January 2014
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Book
This book gathers the best new work on manuscript books in England made during this crucial but neglected period. Its authors survey existing research, gather intensive new evidence and develop new approaches to key topics.
Literary Criticism
Humanism and Printing
January 2014
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Chapter
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A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain
When scribes won’t write: Gaps in Middle English books
January 2014
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Journal article
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Studies in the Age of Chaucer
SBTMR
Humanist and Classical Translations
July 2013
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Chapter
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A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
Editing and Correcting
January 2013
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Chapter
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Probable Truth: Editing Texts from Medieval Britain in the Twenty-First Century
Rastell's Gentleness and Nobility
July 2012
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama
England: Humanism Beyond Weiss
January 2012
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Chapter
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Humanism in Fifteenth-Century Europe
Humanism in Fifteenth-Century Europe
January 2012
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Edited book
Humanism, Renaissance
The Production of Books in England 1350-1500
April 2011
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Book
This book studies approaches to the production of manuscripts in medieval England, from the first commercial guilds to the advent of print.
Business & Economics
Caxton's Exemplar for The Chronicles of England?
January 2011
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Journal article
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Journal of the Early Book Society: for the study of manuscripts and printing history
Religion, Humanism and Humanity: Chaundler's Dialogues and the Winchester Secretrum
January 2011
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Chapter
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After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth Century England
Writing the Words
January 2011
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Chapter
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The Production of Books in England, 1350-1500
Maked na moore: Editing and Narrative
September 2010
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Journal article
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Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Hoccleve and Lydgate
March 2010
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Chapter
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A Companion to Medieval English Poetry
Instructing Readers in Early Poetic Manuscripts
January 2010
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Journal article
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Huntington Library Quarterly: studies in English and American history and literature
Stephen Hawes and Courtly Education
September 2009
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature
Manuscripts and Modern Editions
April 2009
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Chapter
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A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature
Evidence for the Construction of Quires from a Fifteenth-Century English Manuscript
September 2008
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Journal article
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The Library: the transactions of the Bibliographical Society
Possibilities for Reading: Classical Translations in Parallel Texts ca. 1520-1558
January 2008
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Journal article
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Studies in Philology
Humanism, Reading, & English Literature 1430-1530
June 2007
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Book
This is the first book to identify the origins of the humanist tradition in England in the 15th century.
Art
The Carol in Writing: Three Anthologies from Fifteenth-Century Norfolk
July 2006
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Journal article
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Journal of the Early Book Society: for the study of manuscripts and printing history
William Worcester Writes a History of his Reading
January 2005
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Journal article
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New Medieval Literatures
Scholarly Scribes and the Creation of Knyghthode and Bataile
January 2004
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Journal article
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English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700
The Occasion, Author and Readers of Knyghthode and Bataile
January 2004
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Journal article
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Medium Aevum
William Worcester Reads Chaucer’s Boece
July 2002
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Journal article
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Journal of the Early Book Society: for the study of manuscripts and printing history
LIGHTNING AT LYNN, 1363: THE ORIGINS OF A LYRIC IN MS SLOANE 2593
January 2001
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Journal article
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Notes and Queries
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies