Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts

Deeply informed and lavishly illustrated, Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts. It is intended for students and scholars who are familiar with some of the major Middle English literary works, such as The Canterbury Tales , Gawain and the Green Knight , Piers Plowman , 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