This particular collection of French lyrics made in France in the late fourteenth century, University of Pennsylvania MS 15, is the most likely repository of Chaucer's French... Læs mere
The Audelay manuscript also contains unique copies of other alliterative poems of the ornate style seen in "Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Pistel of Swete Susan."
Since its rediscovery by nineteenth-century scholarship, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61 has never been ignored, though it has also not gained a great deal of notoriety beyond the scholars of Middle English romance.
The Middle English texts of three "Legendary Romances of Didactic Intent". An edition aimed at students and designed for classroom use, with contextual introductions and marginal glosses of unfamiliar words and phrases. Second, revised edition.
This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, written a little later than the Irish tales, and developing the motif as a vehicle for social ideology.
Aims at a comprehensive, descriptive list of all authors and works known in Britain between c. 500 and c. 1100 CE. This volume brings up to date the entries on apocrypha first published in Sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture: a trial version (1990).
The manuscript contains components of an independent Mary Play, parts one and two of an independent Passion Play and an independent Assumption of Mary Play, as well as ten play subjects that appear in no other English cycles.
A contemporary bestseller, providing readers with exotic information about locales from Constantinople to China and about the social and religious practices of peoples such as the Greeks, Muslims and Brahmins.
These four narratives were among the most popular Middle English romances; all survive in multiple manuscripts and... Læs mere
Translated with an introduction and notes by Michael Scott Woodward. The Gloss on Romans is a collection of sources from many periods and places, which accounts for inconsistencies.
This book illustrates this vastness of medieval interpretive tradition on the seven seals. It includes fifteen texts from the sixth through the fifteenth century.
It is the purpose of this small book to offer to the reader selections from Stone's modest compilation of the internal life of his own... Læs mere