English poet Gower (1325-1408) released his fictional confession, rooted in old texts, in 1390-92. This edition presents it in three volumes, this first devoted to the frame: the Prologue, Book One an
Editors and translators Nicholson and Grenier-Winter present students, academics, and general-interest readers with a collection of selected, French and modern English translations of poems written by
Only one copy is known of the mid-15th-century Middle English translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's Latin prose work on famous women, and the last edition of it was published in 1924, says Cowen, withou
Citing The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript as one of the most important literary books to survive from the British medieval era, Fein, Raybin, and Ziolkowski present it in a unique manner: each item i
This historical literary study analyzes The Siege of Rouen, a poem written in Middle English which describes Henry V’s siege of Normandy in 1418; the poem is also related to the Middle English Brut ch
Furrow presents fresh editions of 10 humorous poems, bourdes, from the 15th century for learners of Middle English, divided into tales of white magic, fiends and risen corpses, Arthurian bourdes, and
This text is a medieval play called Play of the Sacrament, which is about the abuse, and eventual acceptance, of five Muhammad-worshiping Syrian Jews attempting to receive the Eucharist. Sebastian pro
There are four extant manuscripts of a 14th-century anonymous interlinear Latin-to-Middle English glossed prose translation of the Book of Psalms, 11 canticles, and the Athanasian Creed. This first of
There are four extant manuscripts of a 14th-century anonymous interlinear Latin-to-Middle English glossed prose translation of the Book of Psalms, 11 canticles, and the Athanasian Creed. The first of
English poet Gower (1325-1408) wrote voluminously in Latin and Anglo-French as well as English, consciously making himself an artistic master in the three main languages of his time and place. R.F. Ye
The goal of the Middle English Texts Series is to make available to teachers and students texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily avail
The four romances, all composed in the northeast Midlands between 1325 and 1375, were among the most popular of the genre, and many manuscripts continued to circulate through the 16th century, the fou
The narrative poem was translated about 1300 from the Anglo-Norman romance, and contains only about a third of the original, from the hero's marriage to his death. The translator also changed the vers
Three of the four poems were attributed to Chaucer until the late 18th or 19th centuries, after which they have been characterized as Chaucerian to show their debt to the 14th-century poet. In his int
Dunbar, a courtier of Scotland's James I, is considered to be the finest lyric poet in English between about 1400 and 1557 and a leader amongst the Middle Scots Poets. He is credited with over 80 poem
The conflict was more modern than medieval, says Carlson: the king needed money and the merchant-oligarchs of London balked at giving him theirs. By a series of extraordinary measures, Richard forced
Designed for students of Middle English, this thoughtfully arranged text includes a lengthy introduction on marriage law, issues, and customs in the 13th-16th centuries by Salisbury (no affiliation is
Like Lydgate's original 1421 poem this classroom text is a companion and sequel to his Troy Book : Edwards (English, Pennsylvania State U.) has followed the same editing principles he did in his sele
A student edition of two somewhat neglected yet significant and instructive anonymous Middle English alliterative texts usually read in conjunction with Langland's Pier Plowman . Richard the Redeles
Written in 1449, the poem Amoryus and Cleopes survives in a single manuscript: Princeton University Library Ms Garrett 141. The main part of the manuscript includes several scientific/philosophical tr
