Purchase this volume Edited from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264. Omar Khalaf (ed.) ‘Alexander and Dindimus’ is an anonymous alliterative poem which tells the fictitious epistolary exchange between Alexander the Great and Dindimus, king of the Bragmans. It is acknowledged to be one of the earliest poems belonging to the Alliterative Revival. Derived from the ‘Historia de Preliis Alexandri… Read More »Vol. 55 Alexander and Dindimus
Purchase this volume Edited from an Uncatalogued Manuscript in a Private Collection, Ashton-under Lyne, with a Parallel Text of The Anglo Norman ‘L’Art de Venerie’ by William Twiti. Edited from Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 424/448. David Scott-MacNab (ed.) This volume presents the first scholarly edition of a little-known fifteenth-century translation of William Twiti’s Anglo-Norman prose treatise on hunting,… Read More »Vol. 40 The Middle English Text of ‘The Art of Hunting’ by William Twiti
Purchase this volume A Critical Edition Based on Cambridge University Library MS Ii.3.21, ff. 9r-180v. Tim William Machan (ed.) Although Chaucer’s ‘Boece’ has been edited many times, this is the first edition to offer not only a critical text but also collations with all extant medieval and late-medieval authorities and also with the modern critical editorial tradition. It thus presents… Read More »Vol. 38 Chaucer’s ‘Boece’
Purchase this volume Edited from Caxton´s 1491 Edition of John Mirk´s ‘Festial’. Susan Powell (ed.) The ‘Festial’ is a collection of sermons de tempore and de sanctis compiled by the Austin canon, John Mirk, probably around the late 1380s. It circulated widely in manuscript, undergoing one recension and one significant revision, of which the Advent and Nativity sermons were edited… Read More »Vol. 37 Three Sermons for ‘Nova Festa’, together with the ‘Hamus Caritatis’
Purchase this volume Edited from Glasgow University Library, Hunter 250. Edited by Thomas G. Duncan and Margaret Connolly with a parallel Text of The Anglo-Norman Miroir edited from Nottingham University Library, MS LM 4 Thomas G. Duncan, Margaret Connolly (eds.) The ME Mirror, a fourteenth-century prose translation of the thirteenth-century AN Miroir by Robert de Gretham, is a text of… Read More »Vol. 34 The Middle English ‘Mirror’: Sermons from Advent to Sexagesima