Locating Anglo-Italian Communities in Bevis and the Naples Manuscript

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dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage633
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue4
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage653
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume108
dc.contributor.authorFraaije, Karel
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-11T09:25:51Z
dc.date.available2025-03-11T09:25:51Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.updated2025-01-25T18:52:38Z
dc.description.abstractThis article contextualises the Anglo-Italian aspects of Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS XIII.B.29. This fifteenth-century paper miscellany contains Bevis of Hampton, Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale, St Alexius, Libeaus Desconus, as well as a recipe collection, a section of Lydgate’s “Doublenesse”, and a fragment of Sir Isumbras . The book is among a very select number of codices containing Middle English texts that are presently preserved in an Italian institution. Previous research has demonstrated XIII.B.29 must have travelled to the Italian peninsula at a relatively early date, but the exact reason behind its compilation and the method by which it arrived in Italy remain uncertain. This article reviews the manuscript’s design, provenance, and contents, arguing the book is not just an English manuscript in Italy, but also to some degree an English manuscript about Italy and Italian experiences. Specifically, the article contends that an episode in the manuscript’s Bevis, which describes a street fight near Lombard Street in London, benefits from a reading that acknowledges late medieval developments in finance and long-distance Anglo-Italian commerce, as well as the emergence of Italian communities in Southampton and the capital.
dc.description.sponsorshipOpen Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
dc.description.sponsorshipDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
dc.description.sponsorshipHeinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (3102)
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11061-024-09814-y
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3435
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.issn0028-2677
dc.relation.journalNeophilologus
dc.rightsL::CC BY 4.0
dc.subject.ddcddc:820
dc.subject.fieldmedievalstudies
dc.subject.fieldenglishstudies
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudies
dc.titleLocating Anglo-Italian Communities in Bevis and the Naples Manuscripten
dc.typearticle
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