Skip to content

Metrical

Vol. 32 The Abridged English Metrical Brut

Purchase this volume Edited by Una O’Farrel-Tate The ‘Abridged English Metrical Brut’ is a verse history of the king of Britain which exists in seven manuscripts and fragments. One version was edited in 1935 as ‘An Anonymous Short English Metrical Chronicle’, but the closest literary relations of this text are found in the ‘Brut’ tradition. The Royal manuscript contains a… Read More »Vol. 32 The Abridged English Metrical Brut

Vol. 30 La Estorie del Evangelie

Purchase this volume A parallel-text edition. Celia Millward (ed.)  La Estorie del Evangelie is a metrical life of Christ based on the gospels, probably first composed in Norfolk in the late thirteenth century. Despite the French title no source in French has been identified, and the poem is likely to be an original English work. It was apparently popular, as… Read More »Vol. 30 La Estorie del Evangelie

Cookie preferences