Purchase this volume Edited from Cambridge, St John’s College MS G.31. With Parallel Texts of “The Historia Scholastica” and the “Bible Historiale” Mayumi Taguchi (ed.) Cambridge, St John’s College MS G.31 contains the only witness to the Middle English ‘Historye of the Patriarks’ which can be dated with some confidence to the fifteenth century. This text translates the Genesis section… Read More »Vol. 42 The Historye of the Patriarks
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 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