Performing manuscript culture : poetry, materiality, and authorship in Thomas Hoccleve's Regement of Princes / Elisabeth Kempf.

Acknowledgments ; Contents ; Abbreviations ; 1 Introduction: the Regement of Princes as a Manuscript Fiction ; 1.1 The Regement of Princes and its Manuscripts ; 1.2 A Poet's Rehabilitation? ; 1.3 Material Philology Meets Performativity ; 1.4 Tracing Performances of Manuscript Culture.

2 "Hoccleve, fadir myn, men clepen me": Textual Biography in the Regement of Princes Thomas Hoccleve, "Scoller of Geoffrey Chaucer" ; 2.1 Interwoven Biographies ; 2.2 The Death of the Narrator: Thomas Hoccleve's Dissolution into his Text.

2.3 The Old Man -- a Young Narrator, a Potential Future, and a Personified Textual Function 3 "That text I undirstonde thus alwey": Glosinge in the Regement of Princes ; On Authority ; 3.1 Case Study I: Marginal Glosses and their Relation to the Main Text.

3.1.1 Marginal Glosses in the Regement of Princes 3.1.2 Reading Blyth's and Furnivall's Regements ; 3.1.4 Reading the Regement in 15th-Century Witnesses ; 3.1.5 Commenting on a Culture of Glossing ; 3.2 Case Study II: Interpreting Authorities.

3.2.1 Glossing and Debating Female Maistrie 3.2.2 Alisoun Revisited ; 3.2.3 Circularity and the Limits of Exegesis ; 3.2.4 Political Implications of the Practice of Glosinge.

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