Please join us for this remote event to celebrate the publication of Professor Emily Steiner’s new book!
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John Trevisa's Information Age Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400
Emily Steiner
- Explains the contributions of a little-studied author, John Trevisa, to English literary history
- Shows how medieval English literature is indebted to information culture, and especially compendia and encyclopaedias
- Identifies encyclopaedic modes of verse composition, prose style, and gloss in medieval English literature
- Argues for the inventiveness of compendious paratext, such as early English alphabetical indexes
- Demonstrates that medieval compendia had traction well into the early modern period
- Asserts that translations of information genres helped construct a discourse of popular science
