This work, also known as Fervor Amoris, is a late-medieval devotional prose text. In essence it is a manual of guidance for the spiritual and ethical life, directed at the lay population, and intended for both sexes, rather than at a monastic audience (although there is evidence that the text was read by nuns). It is a useful index of English popular spirituality since its circulation seems to have been extensive: it survives in 16 manuscripts, dating from the early-to-mid 15th century, and two early 16th century printed editions, evidence of its enduring popularity into the Early Modern...

This edition presents several Old English texts from an Oxford manuscript. Unique to the manuscript, the works have not been edited since 1909 (when only a text and translation were supplied). Four of the texts are by the important late tenth-century writer AElfric, the other three are anonymous. The edition offers detailed information about the manuscript, its language, and the background, sources, and analogues of the individual works.

This is a critical edition of the Old English homilies in Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare MS CXVII, with parallel passages from related manuscripts. The introduction deals with the manuscript, language, parallel texts and Latin sources. The text has a critical apparatus giving the readings of other manuscripts and analogues from the other homilies, and there is a commentary and glossary. This is the first complete edition of these important ninth- or tenth-century texts.

This book is the first separate critical edition of the Middle English Physiologus from its sole surviving manuscript, with apparatus, commentary, glossary, and introduction.

Containing four texts, this volume collates all the major Middle English accounts of otherworld visions seen at St Patrick's Purgatory. It presents a rare edition of Owayne Miles from the Auchinleck manuscript, National Library of Scotland, MS Advocates' 19.2.1., and the couplet version from BL Ms Cotton Caligula A ii and Yale University Library, MS 365 The Book of Brome. It also includes the first parallel-text edition of the two extant manuscripts of the early 15th-century prose Vision of William of Stranton, from BL MSS Royal 17 B xliii and Additional 34193. The long version of the late...

This edition of the fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative poem "Wynnere and Wastoure" provides a highly useful introduction to the manuscript discussing in detail its date, provenance, and metre. In addition, it offers a concise summary, criticism, a bibliography, a commentary, glossary, and an index of names.

This is the first critical edition of the text which chronicles Katharine of Aragon's arrival in England, her triumphant entry into London (1501), her marriage to Prince Arthur, the tournament held in honor of that marriage, and Prince Arthur's funeral a few months later. Providing a complete picture of the state of English court drama at a crucial point in its development, it casts the historical materials into the form of medieval romance, occasionally borrowing cadences from Malory to describe Katharine, Arthur, and Henry VII. No other contemporary source offers such a vivid account of the...

This is a new critical edition of A Famylyer Dyaloge of the Freende and the Felaw, a late 15th-century translation of the Latin work Dialogus familiaris amici et sodalis (c. 1425) by Alain Chartier. The prose work forcefully laments the ruinous conditions in France brought about by the corruption and vices of the rulers, army, and common people in the early 15th century.

The Yorkshireman Richard Rolle (c. 1300-1349) was the first and most immediately influential of the English medieval mystics. His passionate insistence on a personal communion between Creator and created affected the development of pre-Reformation religious thought, and his decision to write in English rekindled in the modern idiom the tradition of vernacular devotional prose. This is the first full critical edition of Rolle's major writings, leaving out only his glossed Psalter. Although the manuscript chosen is not in the original Northern dialect, it is of sufficient authority to restore...

St. Bridget of Sweden (1303-73) experienced supernatural revelations throughout her life while a lady-in-waiting at the Swedish court, as she founded a monastery for nuns and monks, and during her religious pilgrimages throughout Italy. This work is a critical edition of one of the two complete Middle English translations of the Liber Celestis, a manual of St. Bridget's visions recorded by her spiritual directors.