Elaine Treharne (Hrsg.)

Old and Middle English c.890-c.1450

An Anthology
Herausgegeben von Treharne, Elaine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Spanning almost seven centuries, this anthology encapsulates thefoundation and consolidation of literature written in English,culminating in some of the finest works produced in English in thehigh Middle Ages.

New edition of this widely-used anthology of Old and MiddleEnglish literature
Now extended to include newly-edited versions of Old EnglishWonders of the East , of Poema Morale , extracts fromJulian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
Full translations are offered for the Old and earlier MiddleEnglish material, along with marginal glosses for the latertexts
A general introduction gives an outline of key works and thehistorical context in which they are written

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Anthologies
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 896
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 172mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1344g
• ISBN-13: 9781405181204
• ISBN-10: 1405181206
• Artikelnr.: 26612201

Autorenporträt

Elaine Treharne is Professor of Early English at Florida State University. She has published extensively on Old and Middle English literature, and focuses particularly on medieval manuscripts and their contexts of production. She is a General Editor of the Oxford Textual Perspectives Series, Editor of Essays and Studies, Medieval Editor for Review of English Studies, and a former Chair and President of the English Association. She is the founding convenor of the English Association Special Interest Group in the History of Books and Texts.

Inhaltsangabe

Alphabetical List of Authors and Works. Preface and Acknowledgements.
Introduction. Editorial Policy. Bede's Ecclesiastical History. Cædmon's
Hymn (from the s.viii manuscript). Bede's 'Account of the Anglo-Saxons'.
Bede's 'Life of Cædmon'. Alfred's Preface to the translation of Gregory's
Pastoral Care. Alfred's Translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy.
**Othere and Wulfstan from the Alfredian Orosius. The Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle. Exeter Book. Advent Lyrics VII and VIII. The Wanderer. The
Seafarer. The Whale. Deor. Wulf and Eadwacer. Exeter Book Riddles 5, 7, 12,
26, 29, 30, 43-46, 55. The Wife's Lament. The Husband's Message. The Ruin.
Vercelli Book. The Fates of the Apostles. Vercelli Homily X. The Dream of
the Rood. The Blickling Book. **A Blickling Homily. Ælfric's Preface to
Catholic Homilies I. *Ælfric's Series I Catholic Homily for the 21st Sunday
after Pentecost. Ælfric's Preface to the Lives of Saints. *Ælfric's Life of
St Eugenia. The Battle of Maldon. Beowulf Manuscript. Beowulf, Lines
320-1250. Judith. **Marvels of the East (extract). The Junius Manuscript.
Exodus. Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi ad Anglos. Apollonius of Tyre. The
Peterborough Chronicle. A Life of St Margaret. **Ralph D'Escures' Homily on
the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The Hymns of Saint Godric. Hali Meidhad.
Ancrene Wisse Digby 86 Ubi Sunt que ante nos fuerunt? Stond wel moder under
rode . Dame Sirid. Love is sofft. Jesus 29. The Love-Ron of Thomas Hales
Cotton Caligula A. ix. La3amon's Brut The Owl and the Nightingale . Trinity
323. Trinity Lyrics:. Of One that is so Fair and Bright. When I Think on
Domesday. When the Turf is Thy Tower. A Saying of St Bernard. I Sing of One
that is Matchless. An Orison to our Lady. South English Legendary. The Life
of St Wulfstan Robert Mannyng of Brunne. The Chronicle. Hadnlyng Synne. The
Land of Cockayne. Auchinleck Manuscript. **Either the Passion of St
Margaret or Passion of St Katherine. **Extract from Guy of Warwick. Harley
2253. King Horn. Harley Lyrics:. Earth upon Earth. Alysoun. Spring. Advice
to Women. An Old Man's Prayer. Blow, northerne wynd. The death of King
Edward I. I syke when Y singe. An Autumn Song. The Ayenbite of Inwit.
Richard Rolle:. Ego Dormio. Ghostly Gladness. Ywain and Gawain. Athelston.
Wynnere and Wastoure. **John Mandeville Travels (substantial extract)
**Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love (extract) Piers Plowman.
Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue. Wife of Bath's Prologue
and Tale. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. **The Book of Margery Kempe.
*Sir Orfeo (from Ashmole 61 with some variant readings provided).
Bibliography. Glossary of Common Hard Words. Indexes