Paying the minstrel: a cultural study of B.L.MS Harley 913

To date no inclusive study of the contents of British Library MS Harley 913 has been undertaken, despite the prevalence of scholarly opinion attesting to the manuscript's importance. In the absence of a facsimile or edition of Harley 913 it may be difficult for others to "visualize" the manuscript as a whole, especially in view of the number of studies concerning only its Middle Hiberno-English poetry. For this reason, in this study I have decided on the approach of letting the manuscript speak for itself; each of the texts will be discussed in turn - as they appear in the manuscript - allowing for the development of individual cultural themes and reformist concerns, and permitting the reader to experience the cumulative effect of "reading" the manuscript as it exists today

Name dc:type.qualificationname

Doctor of Philosophy

Level dc:type.qualificationlevel

Doctoral Thesis

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Queen's University Belfast

Year dc:date.issued

2001

Author dc:creator

• Moore, Deborah

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Thompson, John

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

oai:pure.qub.ac.uk/portal:studenttheses/9dab159b-a608-45b2-a18b-0c40a7f14b43

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:pure.qub.ac.uk/portal:studenttheses/9dab159b-a608-45b2-a18b-0c40a7f14b43