The Ormulum

The first edition since 1878 of a primary twelfth-century text, the only example of a key transitional dialect between Old and Middle English. The first re-edition of this important work since 1878.

About the author

Nils-Lennart Johannesson, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Stockholm. Director of the Ormulum project, from 1993 until his death in 2019.


Dr Andrew Cooper, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Stockholm. Director of the Ormulum project from 2020.

Product details

• Assisted by: Andrew Cooper (Editor), Nils-Lennart Johannesson (Editor)
• Authors: Nils-Lennart (EDT)/ Cooper Johannesson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 09.08.2023
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780192890436
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289043-6
• Pages: 600
• Series: Early English Text Society Original Series > no. 360