Important intervention in Middle English studies that challenges widely accepted narratives on the identities of Chaucer's scribes.
Lawrence Warner is Reader in Medieval English at King's College London. His previous publications include The Myth of 'Piers Plowman' (Cambridge, 2014), which won the English Association's 2016 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English Literature before 1590, and The Lost History of 'Piers Plowman' (2011), which received an Honorable Mention for the Society for Textual Scholarship's 2013 Richard J. Finneran Award.
1. Adam; 2. The Pynkhurst canon; 3. Pynkhurst's London English and the dilemma of copy-text; 4. Looking for the scribe of Huntington Hm 114; 5. The Guildhall clerks; 6. Hoccleve's Hengwrt, Hoccleve's Holographs.