The Middle English Mirror: Sermons from Advent to Sexagesima

Summary

The ME Mirror, a fourteenth-century prose translation of the thirteenth-century AN Miroir by Robert de Gretham, is a text of cultural and linguistic value. As a cycle of sermons addressed to a lay audience, it offers extensive material for the study of popular preaching in fourteenth-century England. Four of the six surviving manuscripts exemplify that variety of fourteenth-century London language designated "Type II" by M. L. Samuels. Only brief, unedited extracts or quotations from the Mirror have hitherto appeared in print; a full critical edition will not appear for many years. This edition, based on MS Hunterian 250, Glasgow University Library, one of the "Type II" manuscripts, aims to present a sizeable sample of the Mirror including the Prologue and a representative selection of sermons with the Anglo-Norman source text given in parallel.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas G. Duncan
• Assisted by: Margaret Connolly (Editor), Thomas G Duncan (Editor)
• Publisher: Universitätsvlg. Winter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9783825315375
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-1537-5
• No. of pages: 190
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 238 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 401 g
• Series: Middle English Texts; (34) Middle English Texts; Middle English Texts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Partner, Partnerschaft, Sprache, Glasgow, Edition, Commentary, Middle English, Mirror (Mittelenglisch)