Series: Book Cultures
170 Pages, Trim size: 6 x 9 in
This study presents the first full history of Old English poetic mise-en-page, drawing its approach from the fields of literary criticism, art history, metrics, palaeography, and the history of the book. Paying special attention to lineation, this book surveys the layout of poetry from the earliest Latin writings in England, to modern editions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It argues that the vernacular verse page is not, as has often been assumed, merely constrained by linguistic status. Rather, the layout of Old English poetry is shown to be the result of engaged scribal and editorial choices, and one of a set of tools used to meets readers’ needs and to express identities. Old English verse is not laid out "like prose,” but like Old English verse.
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Manuscripts Referenced, with Abbreviated or Alternative Titles
A Note on Terminology and References
Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Rethinking the Vernacular Page
Chapter 1. Latin Verse to the Tenth Century
Chapter 2. Old English Verse in Medieval Manuscripts
Chapter 3. Old English Verse in Modern Editions
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Rachel A. Burns is a Lecturer in medieval literature at Hertford College, University of Oxford. She previously worked on the CLASP project in the Oxford English Faculty. Her research on Old English poetry has been published as articles in Anglia and The Review of English Studies.
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