Notes on Cambridge University Library MS Ff.1.6

Marshall, Simone Celine

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The Cultural Vocabulary Of Early Industrialists1

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“…It made perfectly good sense for Marshall to read among the cutting edge chemists, or to adapt the boiler of his steam engine to steam cloth that he was attempting to dye. 80 It is we who have imposed contradictions, tinkerers v. real scientists, trial and error v. serious experimentation, science v. technology. Or we have wanted to merge the one into the other, refusing to see the variety of skills at play.…”

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Mechanical Science on the Factory Floor: The Early Industrial Revolution in Leeds

Jacob

2007

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Mechanical Science on the Factory Floor: The Early Industrial Revolution in Leeds

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2007

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Findern Manuscript

Allen-Goss

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages

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“To thenke what was in hir wille”: a female reading context for the Findern anthology

Kinch

2007

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This article argues that close, critical attention to the selection, organization, and layout of texts in the Findern Anthology (Cambridge University Library MS Ff 1.6) provides evidence that the manuscript's readers and compilers exercised interpretive control over its construction. The activity of female scribes in compiling the manuscript indicates that a literary culture of female readers may have driven the construction of the manuscript. Through analysis of texts by Gower, Chaucer, and Richard Roos, this article demonstrates that substantial alterations in the format indicate close critical readings of the texts by interested female readers who interpreted the court writing tradition through their more local experience and perspective. Far from being a merely ''provincial'' manuscript, however, this analysis reveals subtle interventions in the texts transmitted, suggesting a sophisticated reading of the court tradition that draws out crucial thematic inter-relationships. Foremost among the manuscript's major themes are the power of female eloquence (as demonstrated in Gower's story of Peronelle and Richard Roos' translation of Alain Chartier's La Belle Dame Sans Mercy) and the tension between female choice and social compulsion (as demonstrated in Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls and Gower's story of Rosiphelee).

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Notes on Cambridge University Library MS Ff.1.6

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Mechanical Science on the Factory Floor: The Early Industrial Revolution in Leeds

Mechanical Science on the Factory Floor: The Early Industrial Revolution in Leeds

Findern Manuscript

“To thenke what was in hir wille”: a female reading context for the Findern anthology

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