The Middle English Mirror: Sermons from Advent to Sexagesima

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Thomas G. Duncan
• Con la collaborazione di: Margaret Connolly (Editore), Thomas G Duncan (Editore)
• Editore: Universitätsvlg. Winter
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9783825315375
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-1537-5
• Pagine: 190
• Dimensioni: 157 mm x 238 mm x 15 mm
• Peso: 401 g
• Serie: Middle English Texts; (34) Middle English Texts; Middle English Texts
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; Partner, Partnerschaft, Sprache, Glasgow, Edition, Commentary, Middle English, Mirror (Mittelenglisch)