Bilingual, Bitextual Bellewe: A Case Study of Paleographical Code-Switching in Late Medieval English-Controlled Ireland.

Author/Editor
O'Byrne, Theresa.

Title
Bilingual, Bitextual Bellewe: A Case Study of Paleographical Code-Switching in Late Medieval English-Controlled Ireland.

Published
O'Byrne, Theresa. "Bilingual, Bitextual Bellewe: A Case Study of Paleographical Code-Switching in Late Medieval English-Controlled Ireland. Speculum 99.3 (2024): 744-61.

Review
O'Byrne's study is of the Anglo-Irish scribe Nicholas Bellewe (1423-74), who signed his work, irrefutably establishing identity. Bellewe isn't known to have copied MSS of Gower (whom O'Byrne does not mention) but he did produce both legal and literary documents using the different hands appropriate to each type. [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 44.1]

Date
2024

Gower Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies