Speculum Inclusorum/Mirror of Recluses - A Parallel-text Edition

Klappentext This is a critical parallel-text edition of the Latin Speculum Inclusorum - a late-medieval English 'rule' for male anchorites - and its Middle English translation, A Mirror for Recluses. Zusammenfassung This critical edition of a late-medieval English ‘rule’ for male anchorites is a timely intervention in – and stimulus to – an already exciting field. The Speculum Inclusorum is an early 15th-century Latin rule or guide. Acknowledgements Abbreviations INTRODUCTION General introduction - Rules for anchorites - Men, masculinity and the anchoritic vocation - Previous editions Manuscripts - Descriptions of extant manuscripts - Lost manuscripts - Relationship of manuscripts Author and readers - Speculum Inclusorum - A Mirror for Recluses This edition The Texts Critical Apparatus Notes to the Texts Appendix to the Notes to the Texts: annotations to base manuscripts Bibliography

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• Authors: E. A. Jones
• Assisted by: E. A. Jones (Editor), E. A. Jones (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2013
• EAN: 9780859898850
• ISBN: 978-0-85989-885-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies; University of Exeter Press - E; Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies; Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud; University of Exeter Press - E
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages