Performing Manuscript Culture: Poetry, Materiality, and Authorship in Thomas Hoccleve's Regement of Princes

by Elisabeth Kempf

This study conceives of Thomas Hoccleve's Regement of Princes (1410-1413) as an essentially performative text, one that expresses its awareness of the manuscript culture in which it is so firmly rooted. The openness of manuscripts is a recurring subject in the Regement and is not only expressed through mere descriptions of, but through complex references to this manuscript context.

Performances of manuscript culture manifest themselves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110522454
• ISBN13: 9783110522457
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"