Carruthers, Leo
Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England
1. Introduction: Palimpsests and “Palimpsestuous” Reinscriptions
Raeleen Chai-Elsholz
Part I. Permanence and Impermanence of Writing on the Page
2. An Anglo-Saxon Palimpsest From Fleury: Orléans, Bibliothèque Municipale Ms 342 (290)
Adrian Papahagi
3. Recovering Anglo-Saxon Erasures: Some Questions, Tools, and Techniques
Peter A. Stokes
4. Some Psalter Glosses in Their Immediate Context
Jane Roberts
5. The Palimpsest and Old English Homiletic Composition
Paul E. Szarmach
6. “Ic Beda” … “Cwæđ Beda”: Reinscribing Bede in the Old English
Sharon M. Rowley
7. Vernacular Engravings in Late Medieval England
Florence Bourgne
8. Rewriting Genres:
Leo Carruthers
Part II. Impermanence and Accumulation in the Literary Imagination
9. Palimpsestic Philomela: Reinscription in Chaucer’s “Legend of Philomela”
Gila Aloni
10. The Middle English Breton Lays and the Mists of Origin
Claire Vial
11. Enquiries Into the Textual History of the Seventeenth-Century
Colette Stévanovitch
12. Elucidations: Bringing to Light the Aesthetic Underwriting of the
Jean-Marc Elsholz
Keywords: Literature, Medieval Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Medieval Europe, British and Irish Literature, Classical and Antique Literature
- Editor
- Carruthers, Leo
- Chai-Elsholz, Raeleen
- Silec, Tatjana
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- The New Middle Ages
- Page amount
- 287 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230118805
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-28644-7