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'.
This volume contains indexes to a university library, a monastic library, two cathedral libraries, a diocesan library and three record offices. Outsta...
Lambeth Palace Library, which dates from a bequest by Archbishop Bancroft in 1610, is one of England's major repositories of medieval manuscripts. More than half of the ninety-six manuscripts and documents containing items of Middle English prose were already present when the library was temporarily transferred to Cambridge in 1647. In the succeeding centuries further manuscript materials have continually been added, and within the last few years the library has become home to the older part of Sion College Library, an event that has added a further seven manuscripts to the present...
Lambeth Palace Library, which dates from a bequest by Archbishop Bancroft in 1610, is one of England's major repositories of medieval manuscripts. Mor...
This new collection of essays is devoted to Middle English poems and poets whose considerable literary achievements are overshadowed by the more usual works of the present-day taught canon. Eight of the twelve essays focus on single texts: The Owl and the Nightingale, The Cursor Mundi, The Simonie, the lyric -Ne mai no lewed lued- from MS Harley 2253, The Siege of Jerusalem, St Erkenwald, The Castle of Perseverance and the N-Town Cycle's Mary Play. The remaining four are devoted to early Middle English love lyrics, fourteenth-century stanzaic religious poems, late Middle English religious...
This new collection of essays is devoted to Middle English poems and poets whose considerable literary achievements are overshadowed by the more usual...