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...
Containing four texts, this volume collates all the major Middle English accounts of otherworld visions seen at St Patrick's Purgatory. It presents a ...