Clien, Wendy. “Chapter 2: Chivalry in the Fourteenth Century” Concepts of Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Norman: Pilgrim Books, 1987. 15-36. Print.

Clien mentioned in her text that the removal of Bisclavret’s clothing also represented the removal of his insignia, and therefore right to bear arms. I took it farther in my paper and in this post and concluded that because he was unable to bear arms in defense of the King, he was unable to fulfill his courtly duties, thus bringing shame upon his name. Because of this, I considered how this shame that he would feel in his animal existence might be at the root of why the wiseman says he is too ashamed to don his clothes in front of the King.

I recently read the novel *Remainder* by Tom McCarthy that (not unlike the film *Synecdoche, New York*) in which objects and imagination are similarly presented as intimately related rather than in a binary relationship. I recommend it.

I see that you’re (appropriately) focusing here on moments when the tools of transmission resist the intentions of the tool-wielder; there are, as well, similarly provocative moments of resistance when medieval scribes are “unfaithful” in their role–when in fact they reveal a rather different sense of the role of copyist from the one we, with our mechanical orientation (and desire for/belief in a “pure,” stable original text) tend to assume. This makes manuscript culture all the more intriguing and full of possibilities.

I do want to clarify that not *all* medievalists, and not even all tech-savvy medievalists, are cheering on the shift from print to digital; we seem instead to be less surprised by it, and have perhaps a longer historical view of the transition.