This is the fullest English version of Hue de Rotelande's twelfth-century Anglo-Norman romance, Ipomedon. It includes a full comparison of the different versions, explanatory notes, and glossary."

An edition of two unprinted Wycliffite texts, together with a parallel text version of the first (composed between c. 1400-1414), this volume also includes a full discussion of the historical context and authorship.

Mandeville's Travels was written in French in c. 1356 by an unknown author, possibly a regular in an abbey in northern France. This volume, an edition of the earliest and most important English translation of the French text of the Travels, contains a full commentary with new information about the sources.

These volumes are one of the four extant Middle English cycles of mystery plays. A collection of unknown origin, N-Town contains forty-one plays, dramatizing divine history from Creation to Doomsday and illustrating ways of reading, supplementing and altering biblical accounts. The collection is rich in textual information testifying about the alteration and expansion of the text. The language of the plays advance knowledge of the history of English. The plays provide instructions in the fundamental elements of medieval Christianity and explain much about forms of consolation and...

The new Early English Text Society edition of The Towneley Plays will serve as a definitive edition for many years to come. It replaces the edition by George England and Alfred W. Pollard, published nearly one hundred years ago by the Early English Text Society. Apart from the corrections of errors in the transcription of the text, the new edition offers a comprehensive introduction, body of notes, and glossary. It also presents the text in a new format, based on an examination of the manuscript, by expanding stanzas attributed to the so-called Wakefield Master' from nine lines (with some...

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.