li rei de engletere

abstract for “Textual Portability”

Herewith the abstract for “Textual Portability and Its Uses in England, ca. 1250–1330,” my 2006 dissertation, partly so that I can reach it without rooting around in metaphorically dusty folders of my laptop’s backup external hard drive:

status: mid-june 2012

So much for blogging more regularly; aside from the usual vagaries of life, I’ve been working on a couple of side projects. One is secret till completed. The other involves copy-editing part of a cool forthcoming game by Keith Nemitz called 7 Grand Steps. Instead of inventing something interesting to write about, therefore, I’ll lay […]

select (dissertation) bibliography

The following material is the full content of the “select bibliography” submitted with my 2006 dissertation, “Textual Portability and Its Uses in England, ca. 1250–1330.” Manuscripts, microfilms, and digital surrogates are listed first, followed by primary sources and secondary sources. Unlike Appendix B, the bibliography appears here almost wholly unchanged from the dissertation version. I’ve […]

manuscripts containing Li Rei de Engletere

“I ought to blog more often,” every person with a blog thinks sometimes. Here we go. Below is a skeleton of Appendix B from my doctoral dissertation, “Textual Portability and Its Uses in England, ca. 1250–1330,” UC Berkeley, 2006. I hold copyright on my dissertation (I paid UMI/ProQuest for this small privilege), and accordingly, if […]