Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of Chaucer and explains how he was one of the first...
In the Faculty of English I primarily teach manuscript studies for the MSt course in English Language and Literature 650-1550. My research focuses on the material remains of English literature between the fourteenth and early sixteenth centuries: manuscripts, and some printed books, and what they reveal about writing habits and reading habits. Within this field, my special interests are scribal corrections, errors and accuracy; marginalia and other ‘genres’ of writing by, for or about readers; humanist reading and scholarship; manuscripts of carols; fifteenth- and sixteenth-century courtly poetry and interludes. My current research includes a study of correcting in Middle English manuscripts and an edition of William Worcester’s The Boke of Noblesse.
Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of Chaucer and explains how he was one of the first...


