Misty Schieberle 
Medieval Manuscripts, Readers and Texts 
Essays in Honour of Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

Examines manuscripts of Langland, Chaucer, Gower, Nicholas Love and Arthurian tales, alongside other devotional works and archival evidence.



Professor Kathryn Kerby-Fulton’s scholarship has transformed the study of medieval manuscripts and readers, particularly in the areas of devotional literature, professional scribal production and clerical writing. The essays collected here celebrate and reflect her influence and practice of giving careful attention to material contexts and archival sources when reading literature produced in late medieval England. They offer new interpretations of scribal practices, professional readers‘ activities, documentary evidence and challenging material and cultural contexts. They also reconsider scholarly practices and assumptions, while demonstrating how manuscript and archival studies can energize scholarship on such varied topics as authority, reader reception, modern editorial perspectives, gender and religious activities.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Misty Schieberle

1. The Trevisa-Gower Scribe: Another London Literary Scribe of the Early Fifteenth Century –
Linne R. Mooney

2. Telling Tails: Pursuing the Trail of the Minstrel-Scribe in Manuscripts of
Sir Isumbras –
Andrew W. Klein

3. Ars Codicis: Marginalia, Meaning and the Manuscript Book(s) of Chaucer’s
House of Fame –
Sarah Baechle

4. Editing Chaucer’s Works: Coherence and Collaboration –
Christopher Cannon and
James Simpson

5. The Pleasures of Plainness: Ordinary Manuscripts in Extraordinary Traditions –
Siân Echard

6. A Dream of John Bale? The
Catalogus
Vetus and the Lives of Ralph Strode –
Thomas Goodmann

7. Women’s St Edmund: Envisioning a Saint and his Contemplative Legacy –
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne

8. Three English Otherworld Visions: Toward a Spirituality of Parish Life –
Barbara Newman

9. Recognizing the Clerical Proletariat: Evidence from Late Medieval London Wills –
Misty Schieberle

10. Langland’s Government Scribes at Home and at Work: A Brief Comparison of the HM 114 Scribe and the Fortescue Family –
Karrie Fuller

11. Function, Form and
The Lay Folks‘ Mass
Book –
Jeremy J. Smith

12. Professional Reading Networks and The Reception of Nicholas Love’s
Mirror of The Blessed Life of Jesus Christ: Opportunities and Consequences –
John J. Thompson

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton: The Making of a Medievalist –
Rosalynn Voaden

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton: List of Publications –
Karrie Fuller and
Misty Schieberle

Über den Autor

Jeremy Smith was professor of English philology at Glasgow, where he remains a senior research fellow and emeritus professor, and an honorary professor at St Andrews. His specialisms include English historical linguistics, medieval studies, and book history, combined recently in Transforming Early English (2020).