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Fragments and assemblages, forming compilations of medieval London, Arthur Bahr

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Fragments and assemblages

Arthur Bahr

forming compilations of medieval London

In Fragments and Assemblages, Arthur Bahr expands the ways in which we interpret medieval manuscripts, examining the formal characteristics of both physical manuscripts and literary works. Specifically, Bahr argues that manuscript compilations from fourteenth-century London reward interpretation as both assemblages and fragments: as meaningfully constructed objects whose forms and textual contents shed light on the city's literary, social, and political cultures, but also as artifacts

Compilation, assemblage, fragment -- Civic counterfactualism and the assemblage of London -- The corpus of Andrew Horn -- Fragmentary forms of imitative fantasy -- Booklet 3 of the Auchinleck manuscript -- Constructing compilations of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -- Rewriting the past, reassembling the realm -- The Trentham manuscript of John Gower

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