The book, reviewed

The first review of my book has emerged, written by Eric Weiskott for the Review of English Studies, and I’m happy to say it’s very generous and positive. You can find it here. Weiskott writes that

It is remarkable that a monograph on such a fundamental issue had not been written before now. Students of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English literature are fortunate that it was Daniel Sawyer who wrote it.

Which is about as glowing a beginning as anyone could ever hope for in a review! It’s good to see the wider implications for the field discussed. I’m also very pleased to see Weiskott noting how accessible the book’s prose is. As he has picked up, the book ‘envisions undergraduates among its audience’, and I certainly put in plenty of hours trying to shape paragraphs about potentially dense codicological details in ways which would reach a wider scholarly and student readership.