The Early Recension and Continuity of Certain Middle English Texts in the Sixteenth Century.

Author/Editor
Hertzig, Marie J.

Title
The Early Recension and Continuity of Certain Middle English Texts in the Sixteenth Century.

Published
Hertzig, Marie J. "The Early Recension and Continuity of Certain Middle English Texts in the Sixteenth Century. Ph.D Dissertation. University of Pennsylvania, 1973. Dissertation Abstracts International 34A (1973): 1913-14.

Review
A study of manuscripts and printed editions available to sixteenth-century readers, with citations of evidence of ownership and usage, based on marginalia and sixteenth-century references to the texts. Includes a chapter on the CA, with the conclusion that it was much known and read in the sixteenth century. [RFY1981]

Date
1973

Gower Subjects
Influence and Later Allusion
Confessio Amantis
Manuscripts and Textual Studies