Florian Geddes

My dissertation focuses on the corpus of late medieval and early modern books of heroes (working title: The Making of the ‘Book of Heroes’ (15th/16th c.): Textuality, Materiality, and the History of the Book), combining literary analysis with questions of materiality and book history. I am interested in the production and reception of epic poems between manuscript and print culture, the transformation processes throughout the textual history of these poems, and the ways in which manual labor, material, and text intersected in making books of heroes.