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Informationen zum Autor Helen Barr is Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She has edited and written on the Piers Plowman tradition, is author of Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England (2001), and co-edited Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale (2005) with Ann M. Hutchison. Klappentext "The Digby Poems" are the twenty-four short lyrics of Oxford Bodleian MS Digby 102--a remarkable sequence of late medieval poetry that until now had only been edited once in its entirety, and that more than a century ago. With this new edition, Helen Barr includes, for the first time, a full critical apparatus, a substantial introduction, and annotation to each of the twenty-four poems in the Digby manuscript. Gathering new evidence that suggests that this sequence was probably written by a Benedictine monk eager to demonstrate his support for the King in the early years of Henry V's reign, Barr's critical analysis and historical research brings out the political emphasis of the poems and their place in the tradition of devotional writing. This volume marks the first classroom-oriented edition of the poems and should be of interest to any student of medieval poetry, devotional literature, and historical manuscript studies. Helen Barr demonstrates that the Digby poems are worthy of serious study and offers a model of how to read unhistorical writing historically. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 110, No. 1 201101 ... this is very much an edition to be welcomed. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 110, No. 1 201101 Barr is to be commended for her production of a fine edition of fascinating, layered, and subtle verse collection, and this new volume will greatly aid teaching and encourage new research. Years Work in English 2011 Zusammenfassung In Helen Barr’s new edition, the 24 short lyrics of Oxford Bodleian MS Digby 102 are freshly transcribed and edited. New evidence shows that this sequence of poems was written in the early years of Henry V’s reign (c.1413–14), and most probably by a Benedictine monk eager to add his support for the Henrician new dawn. Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The manuscript 2. Previous editions of Digby lyrics 3. Critical reception 4. Date 5. Religious sensibilities 6. Social temper 7. Poetics 8. Provenance Appendix: Parallels between the Digby lyrics and the Macaronic sermons in MS Bodley 649 Abbreviations and select bibliography The lyrics from MS Digby 102 1. Loue God and drede 2. Mede and muche thank 3. Treuth, reste and pes 4. Lerne say wele, say litel, or say no3t 5. Wyt and Wille 6. To lyf bodyly is perylous 7. Man, knowe thy self, and lerne to dye 8. A good makynge of iour delaye 9. With God of loue and pes 3e trete 10. A good steryng to heuenward 11. God & man ben made atte on 12. God kepe oure kyng and saue the croune 13. Dede is worchyng 14. Man be warre er the be woo 15. The descryung of mannes membres 16. A remembraunce of Lij folyes 17. Loue that God loueth 18. The declarying of religioun 19. Untitled 20. Untitled 21. A lernyng to good leynge 22. Knowe thy self and thy God 23. Of the sacrament of the altere 24. The Lessouns of the Dirige Glossary Index of proper names ...
