Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Cheese and the Worms and Robert Thornton
- 1 The Contents of Robert Thornton’s Manuscripts
- 2 Robert Thornton: Gentleman, Reader and Scribe
- 3 The Thornton Manuscripts and Book Production in York
- 4 The Text of the Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Prolegomenon for a Future Edition
- 5 ‘The rosselde spere to his herte rynnes’: Religious Violence in the Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Lincoln Thornton Manuscript
- 6 Constantinian Christianity in the London Thornton Manuscript: The Codicological and Linguistic Evidence of Thornton’s Intentions
- 7 Apocryphal Romance in the London Thornton Manuscript
- 8 Thornton’s Remedies and the Practices of Medical Reading
- Afterword: Robert Thornton Country
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts Cited
- General Index
- York Medieval Press: Publications
York Medieval Press: Publications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Cheese and the Worms and Robert Thornton
- 1 The Contents of Robert Thornton’s Manuscripts
- 2 Robert Thornton: Gentleman, Reader and Scribe
- 3 The Thornton Manuscripts and Book Production in York
- 4 The Text of the Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Prolegomenon for a Future Edition
- 5 ‘The rosselde spere to his herte rynnes’: Religious Violence in the Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Lincoln Thornton Manuscript
- 6 Constantinian Christianity in the London Thornton Manuscript: The Codicological and Linguistic Evidence of Thornton’s Intentions
- 7 Apocryphal Romance in the London Thornton Manuscript
- 8 Thornton’s Remedies and the Practices of Medical Reading
- Afterword: Robert Thornton Country
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts Cited
- General Index
- York Medieval Press: Publications
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- Robert Thornton and his BooksEssays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts, pp. 311 - 313Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014