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1882
Volume 38, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0890-2917
  • E-ISSN: 2031-0242

Abstract

Abstract

This note investigates a unique scribal emendation found in the copy of in San Marino, Huntington Library, MS Hm 114, in which the reviser added an interlinear reference to ‘^bokys^’ to Anima’s remark about uncharitable ‘lollers’. This note considers how this single-word revision is indicative of the changing definition of the term ‘loller’ from the fourteenth century to the fifteenth, demonstrating the reviser’s interest in updating the text for his contemporary audience. The emendation displays the reviser’s disapproval of lollards because of their suspect and unauthorized textuality, revealing much about contemporary orthodox understandings of lollardy.

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Keyword(s): books; charity; Hm 114; learning; orthodoxy; Piers Plowman, lollardy; scribes; textuality
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