Insular books : vernacular manuscript miscellanies in late medieval Britain
- Submitting institution
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University of St Andrews
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 252003077
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.5871/bacad/9780197265833.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780197265833
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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A - Medieval and Renaissance
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This collection of essays grew organically out of the editors' long-standing interest in later medieval manuscript miscellanies, and our conviction that this type of material was not well-understood or covered by existing scholarship. Several small in-person and video-conferenced events that were attended by staff and postgraduate students at the editors' home institutions of St Andrews and Bangor during 2010 and 2011 led to a successful application to the British Academy's conference grant scheme, and culminated in a three-day conference in June 2012 hosted at the British Academy in London. The conference gathered more than eighty specialists in the range of vernacular languages used in the British Isles in the later Middle Ages (Anglo-French, Gaelic, Middle English, Older Scots, Middle Welsh), including both senior and early career scholars, and offered a programme dedicated to medieval manuscript miscellanies with three plenary lectures, twenty-one papers, and an inclusive round-table discussion. The present volume of fifteen essays includes some that developed naturally from presentations at the 2012 conference and others that were specially written. Additionally the editors commissioned two more wide-ranging pieces and an afterword to balance out the volume's coverage and to ensure that it would not merely consist of a series of case studies of individual miscellanies. One of the more wide-ranging pieces was written by the attributed individual, and the co-editor also contributed an essay to the volume; both editors collaborated to produce the substantial thirty-page introduction. Both shared the tasks of editing the individual essays, ensuring permissions for use of manuscript images, preparing the indices, managing the process of peer-review as required by the British Academy (additional independent peer review of the proposal, including the full introduction, and of each essay, including the editors' own essays), and generally liaising closely and in a timely fashion with the Academy's Publications Committee.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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