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

Elisabeth Kempf

Published by De Gruyter 2017

Performing Manuscript Culture

Poetry, Materiality, and Authorship in Thomas Hoccleve’s "Regement of Princes"

Elisabeth Kempf

Volume 33 in the series Trends in Medieval Philology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110523089

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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 in several aspects of the text. The first is the narrator persona, and especially the question of how persona and text are intertwined. The second is the constantly recurring interpretation of quotes from authoritative sources that pervades the Regement. This urge to interpret is expressed both in the tradition of adding marginal glosses and in the process of subjecting the text to an exegetical reading. The third aspect is the relation between text and images in the Regement’s manuscripts, which shows how mediality is performed and how the manuscript context is made the focus of this performance. In this monograph, all of these aspects are studied in a mindset that combines the concept of performativity with the postulations of Material Philology.

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Elisabeth Kempf, Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1. Introduction: the Regement of Princes as a Manuscript Fiction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 “Hoccleve, fadir myn, men clepen me”: Textual Biography in the Regement of Princes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. “That text I undirstonde thus alwey”: Glosinge in the Regement of Princes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
4. “Of his persone, I have heere his liknesse Do make”: Mediality and Conceptions of Authorship in the Regement of Princes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
5. Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Images Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Indices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Medievalists, anglicists, art historians, textual philologists
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 207
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 7
- Coloured Illustrations: 0
Keywords: Material Philology; Performativity; Thomas Hoccleve; Regement of Princes

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Published: December 19, 2016
ISBN: 9783110523089

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Published: December 19, 2016
ISBN: 9783110522457