Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England: Collected Essays

Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England.

Author: Tatjana Silec,R. Chai-Elsholz,L. Carruthers
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/31/2011
Pages: 267
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230100268

About the Author
RAELEEN CHAI-ELSHOLZ An independent scholar and technical translator, Chai-Elsholz recently contributed several entries for the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages.

TATJANA SILEC Assistant Professor at the Sorbonne, France.

LEO CARRUTHERS Professor of English at the Sorbonne, France. He is the President of the French Association for Medieval English Studies.