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Ruth
Kennedy, ed.
Three Alliterative Saints' Hymns, Late Middle English
Stanzaic
Poems: The Alliterative Katherine Hymn by Richard Spalding (Bodleian
Library
MS Bodley Rolls 22); The Alliterative John Evangelist Hymn (Lincoln
Cathedral
Library MS 91); The Alliterative John Baptist Hymn (British Library
Additional
MS 39574).
Oxford University
Press for the Early English Text
Society,
2003.
cix,120pp.
Hardback ISBN
0197223249.
Publisher's
recommended price £40.00
This
edition presents
the three extant texts of a largely unrecognised genre in Middle
English
verse: odes to saints written in long-stress metre in fourteen-line
stanzas.
These hymns were composed in the North and East Midlands around 1400.
This
is the first edition of these linguistically difficult, "knotty", poems
for many years: the were previously edited separately in 1907
(re-edited
1937), 1889 and 1921. The
new edition
takes account of recent scholarship on the Middle English alliterative
verse tradition, and includes full discussion of the three poems'
hagiographical
and historical context.
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