Purchase this volume Edition from London, British Library MS Egerton 1995. Joanna Bellis (ed.) John Page’s ‘The Siege of Rouen’ is an eyewitness narrative account of Henry V’s siege of Normandy’s capital in 1418–19. The text is unique in English verse of the fifteenth century in providing a first-hand narrative of a significant event in contemporary warfare. The poet was… Read More »Vol. 51 John Page’s ‘The Siege of Rouen’
Purchase this volume Edited from British Library MS Harley 2278 and Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 46 Anthony Bale, A.S.G. Edwards (eds.) John Lydgate wrote the ‘Lives of Ss Edmund & Fremund’ at the request of his abbot, William Curteys, to commemorate the stay of the young King Henry VI at the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds from Christmas Eve 1433 to… Read More »Vol. 41 John Lydgate´s ‘Lives of Ss Edmund & Fremund’ and the ‘Extra Miracles of St Edmund’
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 An Edition Based on British Library MS Cotton Tiberius D. VII. Ronald Waldron (ed.) This volume is the first step in the publication of a new edition of John Trevisa’s English translation of Higden’s universal history, Polychronicon, to replace the Rolls Series edition of 1865-86. It is based on British Library MS Cotton Tiberius D.vii, a copy… Read More »Vol. 35 John Trevisa’s Translation of the ‘Polychronicon’ of Ranulph Higden, Book VI