Quo vadis, Adam Pinkhurst? Scripts, Scribes, and the Limits of Paleography: A Response Essay.

Linne Mooney's 2006 article "Chaucer's Scribe" has profoundly impacted the field of medieval English literature. 1 The six essays gathered in this article cluster take stock of what we know, or can know, about Chaucer's earliest scribes, while weighing in on the axiomatic attribution at the heart of this subject, that of Adam Pinkhurst as Chaucer's scribe. My essay responds to the cluster with reflections on historical evidence, paleographical methodology, and scribal communities of practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]