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Robert
Easting, ed.
The Revelation of the Monk of Eynsham.
Oxford U.P.
for the Early English text Society (Original Series 318), 2002.
ca.
277pp.
Hardback ISBN
0197223214.
Publisher's
recommended price £50.00
The
Revelation of
the monk of Eynsham is a late fifteenth-century translation of the late
twelfth-century Visio monachi de Eynsham by Adam of Eynsham
(later
author of the Magna vita sancti Hugonis). The Revelation
recounts
a vision of Purgatory and Paradise experienced by Adam's brother,
Edmund,
at the monastery of Eynsham, while unconscious for two days at Easter
1196.
Edmund interviewed a varied range of contemporary figures in the other
world, from the soul of a local alcoholic goldsmith to that of Henry
II.
His account gives a vivid picture of lay and clerical attitudes to sin,
penance, death and the afterlife at the end of the twelfth century. The
English translation survives in two copies printed in London ca. 1483
by
William de Machlinia.
This
is the first
modern edition of the Revelation since Edward Arber's reprint in 1869.
The Middle English text is printed in parallel with an edited text of
the
version of the Latin source closest to that used by the translator,
based
on Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Selden Supra 66.
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