In her research paper “Arthur in the Annuals: Victorian Gift Books and the Aesthetics of Myth” Dr. Garner discussed the Victorian reception of the medieval Arthurian legend and hinted at the analogues between these annuals and medieval manuscript culture. Here I would like to pursue the latter topic in...
Articles with the Tag Miscellany
Reconciling the Old English “Apollonius of Tyre” with its Manuscript Context: The Miscellany CCCC201.
Introduction The prosaic Old English Apollonius of Tyre occurs in the manuscript Cambridge Corpus Christi College 201(CCCC201). This single manuscript is predominantly comprised of religious, secular, poetic material, and the inclusion of Apollonius in this context has occasioned a considerable degree of confusion in relation to its genre...