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The B-version of 'Piers Plowman', perhaps the only version authorised by Langland, is the one most frequently read today, and the most influential form of the poem. This catalogue of the extant medieval manuscripts, now locaed in Cambridge, London, Oxford, Tokyo, and San Marino, California, offers both individual manuscript descriptions and a record of the annotations. The new and detailed codicological descriptions include information on prov...

Essays exploring the complex relationship between literature and science.

An investigation of the depiction of warfare in contemporary writings, in both fictional narratives and factual accounts.

Here at last is the first systematic study of the teaching and learning of Latin in thirteenth century England based on evidence from nearly 200 manuscripts where the text has been glossed in the vernacular. These glosses providethe key to discovering the linguistic competence and interest of students at an elementary level: men and women who needed a working knowledge of Latin for practical purposes. The received view that Latin was the exclu...

By examining the development of Middle English romance against its background of 13th- and 14th-century royal-baronial conflict, this book assumes a new historical perspective. Friction between Plantagenet kings and dissident barons contributed to the development of the 'problem of counsel' both as an actuality and as a topos in the literature of the period. Rule by counsel, an ideal which informs medieval English government at every level, is...

Romances are a vital link between the 13th century and Shakespeare, these essays explore single romances and make a variety of points.

Noteworthy among these texts are scientific treatises such as Chaucer's 'Astrolabe', works of religious devotion such as Richard Rolle's 'Form of Living' and political tracts including Sir John Fortescue's 'Governance of England'.

The Parisian manuscript collections checked for the compilation of this handlist are the Bibliotheque Nationale, the Bibliotheque Mazarine and the Bibliotheque Sainte Genevieve. They contain a miscellaneous but interesting set of Middle English prose texts: there is the Middle English version of Guy de Chauliac's 'Cyrurgie', a 'Brut', four miscellanies of religious matter, including a 'Pore Caitif' and a 'Lay Folks' Catechism', as well as text...

The John Rylands and Chetham's Libraries, Manchester, were both founded by charitable local magnates and in the course of time have become well known in many parts of the world. Housed in their striking original premises, they both contain major collections of manuscripts which in each case include important texts in Middle English prose. In particular, the Rylands collection, which is the larger, has fifteen copies of the Wycliffite Bible, si...

This volume contains indexes to a university library, a monastic library, two cathedral libraries, a diocesan library and three record offices. Outstanding among the manuscripts are two Wycliffite New Testaments and John Mirk's popular sermon collection 'The Festial'.

The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a monumental achievement' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES

The Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, contains the largest collection of medieval manuscripts of any college in Great Britain, and one of the most important collections in the world. The subjects contained therein cover the whole range of topics usual to medieval manuscripts, with the single bias being that the majority were produced in Britain. Particularly noteworthy are Wycliffite translations of the Bible, sermons, and Wycliffite trac...

First examination of the use made by Seamus Heaney of medieval poetry in his translations and adaptations, including the acclaimed Beowulf.

The first dictionary of medieval terms intended for the non-specialist with an interest in the medieval world.

Analyses the subject of women and religion. This volume examines writing: by women, which excludes women, and which ignores them. It represents archaeology and canon and civil law. It explores determinants of marital and social status, problems of women and language, and women's various roles and contains work done on medieval women.

In this volume are the second part of Christine Poulson's survey of the Arthurian legend, an update to Mary Wildman's guide to modern Arthurian literature, an article on Ponticus Virumnius and the text of Gildas, and an article on the origins of Chretien de Troyes' "Conte del Graal".

This collection of new essays on Arthurian themes contains one on Layamon, two on Chretien, and one on Victorian art. The contributors are Oliver Goulden, Claude Luttrell, Christine Poulson, W.R.J.Barron and Francoise Le Saux. The contents of previous volumes are listed at the back of this volume.

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A comparison of Chaucer and Boccaccio sheds new light on both writers, indicating their mutual use of ancient comic literary traditions.

A new account of medieval and Renaissance clown traditions reveals the true extent of their cultural influence.