historicism

  • “A local habitation”

    . . . if not a name. Thanks to the skilled, diligent, and ingenious scholarship of the late Carter Revard, we know where (Ludlow and Hereford) and when (1314-1349) the Harley scribe was working (see in Fein, ed. [2000], pp. 21-109). Most Middle English MSS and their texts are anonymous, and usually only through internal

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