{"title":"Maidie Hilmo","description":"Kathryn Kerby-Fulton is The Notre Dame Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author most recently of Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England, which won the Haskins Medal from the Medieval Academy of America. Maidie Hilmo, an affiliate of the University of Victoria, is the author most recently of Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts: From the Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer. Kerby-Fulton and Hilmo are coeditors of The Medieval Professional Reader at Work: Evidence from Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and Gower and The Medieval Reader: Reception and Cultural History in the Late Medieval Manuscript. Linda Olson is a writer and developer of distance education courses in English literature for the Open Learning Program at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia. She is the coeditor with Kathryn Kerby-Fulton of Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages.","products":[{"product_id":"opening-up-middle-english-manuscripts-literary-and-visual-approaches-paperback","title":"Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeeply informed and lavishly illustrated, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOpening Up Middle English Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts.\u003c\/b\u003e It is intended for students and scholars who are familiar with some of the major Middle English literary works, such as \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e, and the romances, mystical works or cycle plays, but who may not know much about the surviving manuscripts. The book approaches these texts in a way that takes into account the whole manuscript or codex--its textual and visual contents, physical state, readership, and cultural history. \u003ci\u003eOpening Up Middle English Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003e also explores the function of illustrations in fashioning audience response to particular authors and their texts over the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathryn Kerby-Fulton, Linda Olson, and Maidie Hilmo--scholars at the forefront of the modern study of Middle English manuscripts--focus on the writers most often taught in Middle English courses, including Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, the Gawain Poet, Thomas Hoccleve, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe, highlighting the specific issues that shaped literary production in late medieval England. Among the topics they address are the rise of the English language, literacy, social conditions of authorship, early instances of the \"Alliterative Revival,\" women and book production, nuns' libraries, patronage, household books, religious and political trends, and attempts at revisionism and censorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs of 2024, \u003ci\u003eOpening Up Middle English Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003e is available as an ebook, ideal for instructors teaching the book in courses. The fully-searchable PDF ebook version is available through most digital textbook platforms and library ebook aggregaton platforms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50122741383391,"sku":"9780801478307","price":104.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/x9N-O5JKHC9780801478307.webp?v=1781662761"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/maidie-hilmo.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}