On "Standard" Written English in the Later Middle Ages.
- Author/Editor
- Smith, Jeremy J.
- Title
- On "Standard" Written English in the Later Middle Ages.
- Published
- Smith, Jeremy J. "On 'Standard' Written English in the Later Middle Ages." Speculum 99.3 (2024): 762-79.
- Review
- Smith's essay, while arguably the most technical in this cluster of "Speculum" essays, is also of foremost importance. Citing conclusions drawn in his many earlier publications addressing the language of "Confessio" manuscripts, Smith points out the continuity of distinctively "Gowerian" spelling and its close association with scribes "B," "D," and "Delta" (Doyle and Parkes' terminology), close enough to posit a unique "scripta"--"a prototypical usage 'characteristic of particular discourses and transmitted through the activities of particular communities of practice'" (778). Special attention is paid to MSS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Fairfax 3, San Marino CA, Huntington Library EL 26 A.17 (olim Stafford). [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 44.1]
- Date
- 2024
- Gower Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Confessio Amantis