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Subject(s)

• English prose literature—Middle English, 1100-1500 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Medieval—England—Oxford [Browse]
• Sermons, Medieval—England [Browse]
• Sermons, English (Middle) [Browse]
• Christian women saints—Legends [Browse]

Author

• Tanabe, Harumi [Browse]

Series

• Studies in English medieval language and literature ; Volume 48. [More in this series]
• Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, 1436-7521 ; Volume 48

Summary note

This volume completes the first uniform edition of the Early Middle English <I>Ancrene Wisse </I>Group. It contains <I>Sawles Warde </I>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

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Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Contents; Tokyo Medieval Manuscript Reading Group; Preface; Explanatory Notes; I. Editions, Manuscripts and Abbreviations; II. Editorial Procedure; III. Arrangement of the Lines in the Parallel Text; IV. Symbols and Conventions; Parallel Texts; A Parallel Text of Sawles Warde; A Parallel Text of the Wooing Group; On Ureisun of God Almihti; þe Oreisun of Seinte Marie; On Lofsong of Ure Louerde; þe Wohunge of Ure Lauerd; Textual Notes; Textual Notes to Sawles Warde; Textual Notes to the Wooing Group; On Ureisun of God Almihti; Þe Oreisun of Seinte Marie; On Lofsong of Ure Louerde
• Þe Wohunge of Ure LauerdWordlists; Royal (Sawles Warde); Titus (Sawles Warde); The Wooing Group; NERO; LAMBETH; ROYAL; TITUS; Appendix (Unpublished Textual Notes by E. J. Dobson)

ISBN

3-653-96698-1

Doi

• 10.3726/978-3-653-05538-2

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