The Middle English 'Mirror': Sermons from Advent to Sexagesima

Sermons from Advent to Sexagesima, edited from Glasgow, University Library, Hunter 250 with a parallel text of The Anglo-Norman Miroir, edited from Nottingham, University Library, Mi LM 4
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-3-8253-1537-5
Verlag: Carl Winter

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 190 Seiten, KART, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 550 g

Reihe: Middle English Texts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duncan, Thomas G

Connolly, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien