| The Middle English 'mirror': Sermons from Advent to Sexagesima Contributor(s): Connolly, Margaret (Revised by), Duncan, Thomas G. (Revised by) |
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ISBN: 3825315371 ISBN-13: 9783825315375 Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter OUR PRICE: $58.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Religion | Sermons - Christian - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Dewey: 252.02 |
| LCCN: 2004450581 |
| Series: Middle English Texts |
| Physical Information: 190 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |