William Touris Ofm, the Contemplacioun of Synnaris

Late-Medieval Advice to a Prince
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-25696-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 232/12, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 900 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions / Texts and Sources

The Contemplacioun of Synnaris, by the Observant Franciscan William Touris, written c.1494 and evidently intended for King James IV of Scotland, is a significant and much copied work of Older Scots, although the earliest surviving witness is the English print by Wynkyn de Worde (1499).

The Contemplacioun was the very first work of Older Scots literature to be translated and to be printed. The poem’s seven sections comprise a course of meditations for Holy Week. Richard Fox, bishop of Durham, commissioned the English print, in which the stanzas were preceded by Latin sententiae, biblical, medieval and ancient. The work retained sufficient interest to re-emerge in separate versions in both Scotland (1568) and England (1578), drastically revised for Protestant readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacDonald, Alasdair A

McDonald, J. Craig

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Editing the Text

2 Origins and Contexts

3 The CS as Literature

4 1499—The Latin catenae

5 1578—A Dyall of Dayly Contemplacion

Bibliography

Texts

Treatment of Texts

1 Scots

2 Latin

3 Translations of Sententiae

Prologue (1499)

Poem and Catenae

Textual Notes: Poem

1 Textual Notes Pertaining to the Scottish Manuscripts

2 Textual Notes Pertaining to the 1499 English Print

Emendations: Sententiae

Commentary, Sources, Glossary

Commentary: Poem

Sources: Sententiae

Glossary

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alasdair A. MacDonald Ph.D. (1978, University of Edinburgh) is emeritus professor of English Language and Literature of the Middle Ages, University of Groningen. He has published widely on late-medieval and early modern literature.

J. Craig McDonald, Ph.D. (1981, University of York) is emeritus professor of English at King University, Tennessee. He has published on Robert Henryson and John Ireland’s Meroure of Wyssdome.