«Sawles Warde» and the Wooing Group - Parallel Texts with Notes and Wordlists

This volume completes the first uniform edition of the Early Middle English Ancrene Wisse Group. It contains Sawles Warde from the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group of lyrical meditations. These works, originally written for devout women, are of unusual literary and linguistic interest. The readings of all the manuscripts are printed in parallel for easy comparison, presenting the various versions of the Wooing Group in a more cohesive form than in existing editions. Paleographical and textual notes are provided, along with frequency wordlists and a selection of notes from an unpublished edition by E. J. Dobson.

List of contents

Contents: Early Middle English language and literature - Literature for women - The Ancrene Wisse Group - Sawles Warde - The Wooing Group - Diplomatic parallel texts - Frequency wordlists.

About the author

Harumi Tanabe (Seikei University) and John Scahill (Insearch, University of Technology Sydney) represent the six medievalists of the Tokyo Medieval Manuscript Reading Group, which has previously produced diplomatic parallel texts of Ancrene Wisse (2003, 2005) and the Katherine Group (2011).

Product details

• Assisted by: John Scahill (Editor), Harumi Tanabe (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783631663059
• ISBN: 978-3-631-66305-9
• No. of pages: 170
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 17 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 350 g
• Series: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature; Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies