Table Of ContentVERBAL AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION
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UTRECHT STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERACY
General Editor
Marco Mostert (Universiteit Utrecht)
Editorial Board
Gerd Althoff (Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Michael Clanchy (University of London)
Erik Kwakkel (Universiteit Leiden)
Mayke de Jong (Universiteit Utrecht)
Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge)
Arpád Orbán (Universiteit Utrecht)
Armando Petrucci (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Richard H. Rouse (UCLA)
VERBAL AND VISUAL
COMMUNICATION
IN EARLY ENGLISH TEXTS
Edited by
Matti Peikola, Aleksi Mäkilähde, Hanna Salmi,
Mari-Liisa Varila, and Janne Skaffari
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Contents
Abbreviations vii
Preface ix
Part I: Discourse Linguistics Meets Book History
Disciplinary Decoding: Towards Understanding the Language of
Visual and Material Features
MARI-LIISA VARILA, HANNA SALMI, ALEKSI MÄKILÄHDE,
JANNE SKAFFARI, and MATTI PEIKOLA 1
Part II: Communicating through Layout
Discourse Variation, Mise-en-page, and Textual Organisation in
Middle English Saints’ Lives
COLETTE MOORE 23
How the Page Functions: Reading Pitscottie’s Cronicles in
Manuscript and Print
FRANCESCA L. MACKAY 41
Verbal and Visual Communication in Title Pages of Early Modern
English Specialised Medical Texts
MAURA RATIA and CARLA SUHR 67
Quantifying Contrasts: A Method of Computational Analysis of
Visual Features on the Early Printed Page
JUKKA TYRKKÖ 95
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Part III: Communicating through Script and Typography
Stating the Obvious in Runes
YIN LIU 125
Labours Lost: William Caxton’s “Otiose” Sorts, c. 1472-1482
ANYA ADAIR 141
Code-Switching, Script-Switching, and Typeface-Switching in Early
Modern English Manuscript Letters and Printed Tracts
SAMULI KAISLANIEMI 165
Seeing is Reading: Typography in Some Early Modern Dictionaries
R.W. MCCONCHIE 201
Whose Letters Are They Anyway? Addressing the Issue of Scribal
Writing in Bess of Hardwick’s Early Modern English Letters
I.J. MARCUS 219
Bibliography 251
Index 277
Abbreviations
CEECS Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler (Helsinki, 1998), at:
<http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/CoRD/corpora/CEEC/ceecs.html>.
DIMEV Digital Index of Medieval English Verse, at: <http://www.dimev.net/>.
ECCO Eighteenth Century Collections Online, at: <http://www.gales.com/
primary-sources/eighteenth-century-collections-online/>.
EEBO Early English Books Online, at: <http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home>.
EMEMT Early Modern English Medical Texts, see: <http://www.helsinki.fi/
varieng/CoRD/corpora/CEEM/EMEMTindex.html>.
ESTC English Short Title Catalogue, at: <http://estc.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_
name=login-bl-estc>.
IMEV C. BROWN and R.H. ROBBINS, Index of Middle English Verse (New York,
1943), and R.H. ROBBINS and J.L. CUTLER, Supplement to the Index of
Middle English Verse (Lexington, KY, 1965).
LALME A. MCINTOSH, M.L. SAMUELS and M. BENSKIN, A Linguistic Atlas of
Late Mediaeval English, 4 vols. (Aberdeen, 1986).
LMEMT Late Medieval English Medical Texts, see: <http://www.helsinki.fi/
varieng/CoRD/corpora/CEEM/LMEMTindex.html>.
OED Oxford English Dictionary [started as: A New English Dictionary on
Historical Principles, Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The
Philological Society], 2nd and 3rd edn. (Oxford, 1989-). <www.oed.
com>.
STC POLLARD, A.W., and G.R. REDGRAVE, A Short-Title Catalogue of Books
Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of English Books Printed
Abroad 1475-1640, 2nd edn. W.A. JACKSON, F.S. FERGUSON, and K.F.
PANTZER, 3 vols. (London, 1976-1991).
TEAMS TEAMS Middle English Texts Series, at: <http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams>.
WING WING, D., Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland
and Ireland, Wales and British America and of English Books Printed in
Other Countries 1641-1700, 2nd. edn., 3 vols. (1972-1988).
Preface
THE EDITORS
The foundations for the present volume were laid at the international sym-
posium Linguistics Meets Book History: Seeking New Approaches, or-
ganised by the ‘Pragmatics on the Page’ research team in Turku, Finland,
24-25 October, 2014. This event brought together thirty researchers from Fin-
land, the UK, the USA, and Canada to explore the interplay between the verbal
/ linguistic and the visual / material in medieval and early modern texts, with a
focus on both handwritten and printed media. The symposium helped to facili-
tate the exchange of ideas, methods and best practices between two broad fields
which – despite their mutual interest in this area – are not often brought into
dialogue with each other: linguistic scholarship (especially discourse linguis-
tics, pragmatics, stylistics) and book history (including textual scholarship and
material philology).
In our work towards this book we have incurred many debts of gratitude.
First of all, heartfelt thanks are due to our ten contributors for their high-quality
chapters and their unfailing commitment and collaboration during the editorial
process. We are grateful to Marco Mostert for providing us with an excellent
publication forum in Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy and for his erudition
and experience as the General Editor of the series. We wish to thank Ms.
Annimari Ollila for her invaluable assistance in copyediting and compiling the
general bibliography, and Ms. Liina Repo for her indispensable help with com-
piling the index. This book would not have materialised without the stimulating
intellectual environment of the ‘Pragmatics on the Page’ research team (2010-)
and the contributions made to it by our colleagues and team members Risto
Hiltunen, Ruth Carroll, Carla Suhr, and Ellen Valle. During the preparation of
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the volume, the members of the editorial team have been supported by research
funding from the Academy of Finland (decision numbers 136404, 257059 and
258434), the Alfred Kordelin Foundation, the Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foun-
dation and the Finnish Cultural Foundation. We also wish to express our grati-
tude to the Turku University Foundation, Turku Centre for Medieval and Early
Modern Studies (TUCEMEMS), the Department of English at the University of
Turku, and the City of Turku for their financial support of the 2014 sympo-
sium.
