(Well, "breaking" in the sense of scholarship, which means all this was publicized in a conference a few years ago, published last year, and I just now got caught up with the latest.)
The scribe of the Ellesmere Chaucer and the Hengwrt Manuscript has been identified as Adam Pinkhurst, a member of the Scrivener's Company in London as of 1392 (although he had been working as a scribe before that). If he is indeed the "Adam Scriveyn" of Chaucer's earlier poem, it means that he worked with Chaucer from the 1380s up until Chaucer's death in 1400, and perhaps knew more about Chaucer's writings than anyone else.
Linne Mooney is the handwriting expert who gets credit for the discovery. An interview with her tells how she found Adam out.
Monday, January 22, 2007
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Middle English Resources
Hello, and welcome to the ENGL 433 course blog. I'll post helpful links here as I run across them. I will also post lecture notes here for those (rare) classes when I talk more than you do.
For a start, I want to point you to to the Middle English Compendium. This contains a link to the Middle English dictionary, which is the premier lexicographical resource for studying Chaucer's English words. Feel free to poke around the page and look at some of their other resources. I suggest you bookmark this one in your browser. You may even want to create a "Middle English" folder in your bookmarks so you can organize things easily.
For some fun, check out the Chaucer blog--someone is blogging in "Middle English" as if he (or she; the author's identity is a closely-guarded secret) is Chaucer. The blog has some good links in the sidebar for learning Middle English, and I'd bookmark it, too. If you can't quite read the posts yet, don't worry--it will be very readable (and funny) by the end of the semester.
Finally, an excellent resource for pronouncing Middle English is here. You'll want to spend some time on this site listening the sounds being pronounced.
For a start, I want to point you to to the Middle English Compendium. This contains a link to the Middle English dictionary, which is the premier lexicographical resource for studying Chaucer's English words. Feel free to poke around the page and look at some of their other resources. I suggest you bookmark this one in your browser. You may even want to create a "Middle English" folder in your bookmarks so you can organize things easily.
For some fun, check out the Chaucer blog--someone is blogging in "Middle English" as if he (or she; the author's identity is a closely-guarded secret) is Chaucer. The blog has some good links in the sidebar for learning Middle English, and I'd bookmark it, too. If you can't quite read the posts yet, don't worry--it will be very readable (and funny) by the end of the semester.
Finally, an excellent resource for pronouncing Middle English is here. You'll want to spend some time on this site listening the sounds being pronounced.
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