Augustinian Canons and Their Insular French Books in Medieval England: Towards an Assessment.
- Author/Editor
- Pouzet, Jean-Pascal
- Title
- Augustinian Canons and Their Insular French Books in Medieval England: Towards an Assessment.
- Published
- Pouzet, Jean-Pascal. "Augustinian Canons and Their Insular French Books in Medieval England: Towards an Assessment." In Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England c. 1100-c.1500. Ed. Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn and Collette, Carolyn and Kowaleski, Maryanne and Mooney, Linne R and Putter, Ad and Trotter, David. York: York Medieval Press, 2009, pp. 266-77. ISBN 9781903153277
- Review
- A prolegomenon to a larger study, this essay suggests "the extent to which Insular French books await more systematic investigation, if one attempts to sketch a literary geography of Augustinian agencies" (276). Notably, Pouzet cites the reproduction and dissemination of manuscripts of Langtoft ("regarded as production by a fellow canon") by Yorkshire Augustinian houses along "a route of circulation possibly running east (from Bridlington Priory . . .) to west--and such collaborative dissemination with the order is conceivable for other works as well, in Yorkshire and elsewhere" (276). The possibility has special relevance for Gowerians, as Pouzet remarks: "The situation is further enriched if we consider--in the light of John Gower's association with the Augustinian priory at Southwark--that the whole of the first booklet of London, British Library, MS Harley 3490, the 'Rede/Boarstall' manuscript of the Confessio Amantis, is a fifteenth-century copy of Edmund of Abingdon's Speculum Religiosorum, written by the same scribe as the subsequent Gower article," i.e., BL MS Stowe 951. [RFY. Copyright. The John Gower Society. JGN 29.2]
- Date
- 2009
- Gower Subjects
- Biography of Gower
- Confessio Amantis
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies