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Old and Middle English, c.890-c.1450 : an anthology /

Contributor(s): Treharne, Elaine M [editor.].
Series: Blackwell anthologies: Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010Edition: 3rd edition.Description: xxxvi, 854 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781405181204; 9781405181204:; 1405181206.Subject(s): English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 | English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 | English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Modernized versions | English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Modernized versions | Manuscripts, English (Old) | Manuscripts, English (Middle)DDC classification: 829.08
Contents:
Alphabetical list of authors and works -- Preface and acknowledgements to the first edition -- Preface and acknowledgements to the second edition -- Preface and acknowledgements to the third edition -- Chronology of events and literary landmarks -- Introduction -- Bede's Ecclesiastical History: Cædmon's Hymn ; The Settlement of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes; The Life of Cædmon -- Alfred : Preface to the Translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care ; Translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy -- The Accounts of the Journeys of Ohthere and Wulfstan -- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle : Annal 755: Cynewulf and Cynheard; Annals 855-78 : The death of Edmund ; Alfred's Battles with the Vikings ; The Reign of Æðelstan and The Battle of Brunanburh -- The Exeter Book : Advent Lyrics VII and VIII ; The Wanderer ; The Seafarer, The Whale ; Deor ; Wulf and Eadwacer ; Exeter Book Riddles 5, 7, 12, 26, 29, 30, 43-6, 55 ;The Wife's Lament ; The Husband's Message ; The Ruin -- The Vercelli Book : The Fates of the Apostles ; Vercelli Homily X ;The Dream of the Rood -- Ælfric : Old English Preface to his First Series of Catholic Homilies ; Homily on the Nativity of the Innocents ; Old English Preface to his Lives of Saints ; Passion of Saint Edmund -- The Battle of Maldon -- The Beowulf-Manuscript : The Wonders of the East ; Beowulf ; Judith -- The Junius Manuscript : Exodus -- Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi ad Anglos -- King Cnut's Letter to the English of 1020 -- Apollonius of Tyre -- The Peterborough Chronicle -- The Life of Saint Margaret -- The Hymns of Saint Godric -- The Orrmulum -- Cambridge, Trinity College B. 14.52 : Poema Morale ; Trinity Homily 33 -- Worcester Cathedral Library, F. 174 : The First Worcester Fragment -- Hali Meiðhad -- Ancrene Wisse -- Sumer is Icumen In -- Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 86 : Ubi Sount Qui Ante Nos Fuerount? ; Stond Wel, Moder, Ounder Rode ; The Fox and the Wolf ; Dame Siriþ ; Love is Sofft -- Arundel 292 : The Bestiary -- Oxford, Jesus College 29 : The Love-Ron of Friar Thomas Hales ; The Proverbs of Alfred -- London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A. ix : Lazamon's Brut ; The Owl and the Nightingale -- Lyrics from Cambridge, Trinity College B. 14. 39 : Of One That Is So Fair and Bright ; When I Think on Domesday ; When the Turf is Thy Tower ; A Saying of Saint Bernard ; I Sing of One That Is Matchless ; An Orison to Our Lady -- The South English Legendary : The Life of Saint Wulfstan -- Cursor Mundi -- Robert Mannyng of Brunne : The Chronicle ; Handlyng Synne -- The Land of Cockayne -- The Auchinleck Manuscript : Sir Orfeo ; The Four Foes of Mankind -- London, British Library, Harley 2253 : Earth upon Earth ; Alysoun ; Spring ; Advice to Women ; An Old Man's Prayer ; Blow, Northerne Wynd ; The Death of King Edward I ; I Syke when Y Singe ; An Autumn Song ; King Horn -- The Ayenbite of Inwit -- Richard Rolle : Ego Dormio ; Ghostly Gladness -- King Alisaunder -- Ywain and Gawain -- Athelston -- Wynnere and Wastoure -- William Langland : Piers Plowman -- Geoffrey Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales ; The General Prologue ; The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Julian of Norwich : A Vision -- The Book of Margery Kempe -- Select Bibliography -- Glossary of Common Hard Words -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index.
Summary: The third edition of this successful anthology contains an imaginative selection of canonical and non-canonical material, arranged by date of manuscript, with full translations offered for all the Old and earlier Middle English material, along with marginal glosses for the later texts.
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Texts in Old and Middle English, with translations and commentary in Modern English

Includes bibliography and index.

Alphabetical list of authors and works -- Preface and acknowledgements to the first edition -- Preface and acknowledgements to the second edition -- Preface and acknowledgements to the third edition -- Chronology of events and literary landmarks -- Introduction -- Bede's Ecclesiastical History: Cædmon's Hymn ; The Settlement of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes; The Life of Cædmon -- Alfred : Preface to the Translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care ; Translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy -- The Accounts of the Journeys of Ohthere and Wulfstan -- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle : Annal 755: Cynewulf and Cynheard; Annals 855-78 : The death of Edmund ; Alfred's Battles with the Vikings ; The Reign of Æðelstan and The Battle of Brunanburh -- The Exeter Book : Advent Lyrics VII and VIII ; The Wanderer ; The Seafarer, The Whale ; Deor ; Wulf and Eadwacer ; Exeter Book Riddles 5, 7, 12, 26, 29, 30, 43-6, 55 ;The Wife's Lament ; The Husband's Message ; The Ruin -- The Vercelli Book : The Fates of the Apostles ; Vercelli Homily X ;The Dream of the Rood -- Ælfric : Old English Preface to his First Series of Catholic Homilies ; Homily on the Nativity of the Innocents ; Old English Preface to his Lives of Saints ; Passion of Saint Edmund -- The Battle of Maldon -- The Beowulf-Manuscript : The Wonders of the East ; Beowulf ; Judith -- The Junius Manuscript : Exodus -- Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi ad Anglos -- King Cnut's Letter to the English of 1020 -- Apollonius of Tyre -- The Peterborough Chronicle -- The Life of Saint Margaret -- The Hymns of Saint Godric -- The Orrmulum -- Cambridge, Trinity College B. 14.52 : Poema Morale ; Trinity Homily 33 -- Worcester Cathedral Library, F. 174 : The First Worcester Fragment -- Hali Meiðhad -- Ancrene Wisse -- Sumer is Icumen In -- Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 86 : Ubi Sount Qui Ante Nos Fuerount? ; Stond Wel, Moder, Ounder Rode ; The Fox and the Wolf ; Dame Siriþ ; Love is Sofft -- Arundel 292 : The Bestiary -- Oxford, Jesus College 29 : The Love-Ron of Friar Thomas Hales ; The Proverbs of Alfred -- London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A. ix : Lazamon's Brut ; The Owl and the Nightingale -- Lyrics from Cambridge, Trinity College B. 14. 39 : Of One That Is So Fair and Bright ; When I Think on Domesday ; When the Turf is Thy Tower ; A Saying of Saint Bernard ; I Sing of One That Is Matchless ; An Orison to Our Lady -- The South English Legendary : The Life of Saint Wulfstan -- Cursor Mundi -- Robert Mannyng of Brunne : The Chronicle ; Handlyng Synne -- The Land of Cockayne -- The Auchinleck Manuscript : Sir Orfeo ; The Four Foes of Mankind -- London, British Library, Harley 2253 : Earth upon Earth ; Alysoun ; Spring ; Advice to Women ; An Old Man's Prayer ; Blow, Northerne Wynd ; The Death of King Edward I ; I Syke when Y Singe ; An Autumn Song ; King Horn -- The Ayenbite of Inwit -- Richard Rolle : Ego Dormio ; Ghostly Gladness -- King Alisaunder -- Ywain and Gawain -- Athelston -- Wynnere and Wastoure -- William Langland : Piers Plowman -- Geoffrey Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales ; The General Prologue ; The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Julian of Norwich : A Vision -- The Book of Margery Kempe -- Select Bibliography -- Glossary of Common Hard Words -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index.

The third edition of this successful anthology contains an imaginative selection of canonical and non-canonical material, arranged by date of manuscript, with full translations offered for all the Old and earlier Middle English material, along with marginal glosses for the later texts.

Texts in Old and Middle English, with translations and commentary in Modern English.

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