Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England

Oxford University Press
2020
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"Reassesses late medieval English literature
Includes new archival breakthroughs: new life records, authorial attributions, and handwriting identification
Presents a new theory of medieval authorship
Reveals how John Gower kept the Trentham manuscript in his final years, how John Lydgate wished to be remembered, and why Thomas Hoccleve wrote his best-known work, the Series"

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9780198790785