Richard Morris's Prick of Conscience

A Corrected and Amplified Reading Text
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-968099-3
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, Englisch, Middle (1100-1500), Latin, Band 342, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: Early English Text Society Original Series

This mid fourteenth-century poem, a discussion of the 'contempt of the world' and the 'Four Last Things', was one of the most popular Middle English texts in its time, as indicated by the large number of extant copies, and illustrations of it in the windows of All Saints, North Street, in York. It was a widely influential compendium of religious instruction, originating in Yorkshire, but more widely disseminated, and thus representing this important regional culture,
as well as its absorption into a nationwide religious culture. The only edition, by Richard Morris (1863), is now generally unavailable outside research libraries. The present edition revises Morris's text extensively and offers full modern annotation, including extensive discussion of the poem's
sources. Morris's text, although based on an exceptionally good manuscript copy, has been fully collated with the principal early manuscripts; this information is presented in a separate textual commentary. There is an introduction presenting the poem in its context and a Glossary.

Zielgruppe

Graduates and scholars in medieval English literature, history, and theology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hanna, Ralph

Wood, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
i: The poem and Morris's edition
ii: The manuscripts used here
iii: Authorship and the poet's dialect
iv: The poet's verse
v: The aims and presentation of this edition
vi: Bibliography
Richard Morris's Prick of Conscience
Commentary
Appendix 1. Unsupported variants of W, lines 501-1873
Appendix 2: The general tradition, a full substantive collation of lines 1-5000 in the b tradition
Appendix 3: A revised list of manuscripts of The Prick of Conscience.

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Ralph Hanna is Emeritus Fellow of Keble College, Oxford.

Dr Sarah Wood is affiliated with the Middle English Bibliography Group, The Oxford English Dictionary