This study presents the first full history of Old English poetic mise-en-page, drawing its approach from the fields of literary criticism, art history, metrics, palaeography, and the history of the book. Paying special attention to lineation, this book surveys the layout of poetry from the earliest Latin writings in England, to modern editions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It argues that the vernacular verse page is not, as has often been assumed, merely constrained by linguistic status. Rather, the layout of Old English poetry is shown to be the result of engaged scribal and editorial choices, and one of a set of tools used to meets readers’ needs and to express identities. Old English verse is not laid out "like prose,” but like Old English verse.
- COVER
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Terminology
and References
- Abbreviations
- Manuscripts Referenced, with Abbreviated or Alternative Titles
- Introduction. Rethinking the Vernacular Page
- Chapter 1. Latin Verse to the Tenth Century
- Chapter 2. Old English Verse in Medieval Manuscripts
- Chapter 3. Old English Verse in Modern Editions
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
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