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The Ancrene Wisse, A Four-Manuscript
Parallel Text: Parts 5-8 with Wordlists.
Tadao
Kubouchi / Ikegami Keiko, eds.
Frankfurt:
Peter Lang, 2005.
English
Medieval Language and Literature, Vol. 11.
ISBN
(Europe): 3631535759/ (US): 0820476900.
Paperback.
xix,360pp.
Publisher's
recommended price SFR 82.00 / €56.50 / £ 37.00 / US-$ 62.95
The Ancrene Wisse is perhaps the most
notable monument of Middle English prose, its influence evident from
the time of its composition in the early thirteenth century until at
least the Reformation. As the only Early Middle English work of
considerable length to survive in more than two copies, it is a unique
resource for the study of textual variation according to dialect, date,
milieu and stylistic preferences. This edition presents four versions -
those of the early Corpus, Cleopatra and Nero manuscripts, and the late
and substantially modernised version of the Vernon manuscript. To
facilitate comparison, they are printed in parallel form, line by line,
and supplied with extensive notes. This volume, containing the latter
portion of the text and wordlists, complements Vol. 7 in this series.
Contents: Manuscript - Text
- Dialectology - Paleography - Ancrene
Wisse - Linguistic Variation - Stylistics - Anchorites -
Parallel Texts - AB Language.
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