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The Katherine Group (MS Bodley 34) - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

The Katherine Group (MS Bodley 34) - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

This edition presents for the first time newly edited and translated versions of the texts known collectively as the Katherine Group, contained in the early thirteenth century manuscript known as Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 34. Curated to highlight the virtues of female virginity, these texts include saints’ lives of Saints Katherine, Margaret, and Juliana, which affirm the triumph of virginity over the temptations of material wealth and power; Hali Meithhad (Holy Maidenhood), a virginity tract that skillfully recasts patristic commentary to reflect choices available to middle-class and upper-class women in thirteenth-century England; and Sawles Warde (The Guardianship of the Soul), an allegorical homily encouraging readers to avoid sin by achieving emotional balance in earthly life. Together, these texts provide valuable witnesses for the rigorous anchoritic spiritual life pursued by female recluses in medieval England and the development of Middle English writing in the first centuries after the Norman Conquest.

DKK 375.00
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Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302) - John The Blind Audelay - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302) - John The Blind Audelay - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Composed from 1425–1431, MS Douce 32 is otherwise known as the Audelay manuscript after its author John the Blind Audelay, a chaplain who served Lord Richard Lestrange in Shropshire. Nearly all of what is known of Audelay comes from this Middle English witness, which is unusually insistent in naming its author. Audelay repeatedly describes himself as “deaf, sick, and blind,” and thus reliant on his two scribes, probably monks at Haughmond Abbey. This codex edition, the first to present Audeley’s complete corpus, is organized into four sections: a miscellany of texts titled The Counsel of Conscience which thematizes the practice of penance; Salutations, which directs worship to holy women; Carols, which impart orthodox doctrine in Audelay’s distinctive seven-line stanza; and the Meditative Close, which confronts mankind’s mortality. Included are well-known titles like Solomon and Marcolf , the carol Dread of Death , and excerpts from Richard Rolle’s Form of Living .

DKK 415.00
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"The Owl and the Nightingale" and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II) - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

"The Owl and the Nightingale" and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II) - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Made in the West Midlands in the thirteenth century, Oxford Jesus College, MS 29 (II) provides an anthology described by volume editor Susanna Fein as “the most abundant, most persistently English assemblage of imaginative short poems to turn up in the period between the tenth-century Old English Exeter Book and the mid-fourteenth-century Harley Lyrics.” Moralizing, witty, assertively English, and pragmatic about life and the afterlife, the anthology reflects the personality, erudition, and interests of its lone scribe; it includes the learned debate poem “The Owl and the Nightingale”; Thomas of Hales’s “Love Rune,” the first known English Franciscan lyric; “The Proverbs of Alfred,” collected wisdom attributed to Alfred the Great; and twenty-five additional works, many of them uniquely preserved in this manuscript. Fein’s edition presents all of Jesus 29’s English materials in facing-page translation, supplementing their challenging early Middle English with modern English translations for students and advanced scholars alike.

DKK 382.00
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Anglo-Saxon Textual Illustration - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Anglo-Saxon Textual Illustration - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Illustrations and major decoration of sixteen Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, fully described and indexed, are reproduced here in 454 photographs, many for the first time. Manuscripts included are: the Athelstan Psalter, the Harley Psalter, the Bury Psalter, the Paris Psalter, the Boulogne Gospels, the Arenberg Gospels, the Trinity Gospels, the Eadui Codex, Pembroke College MS 301, the Bury Gospels, the Judith of Flanders Gospels (Pierpont Morgan MSS 709 and 708), the Monte Casino Gospel Book, the Hereford Gospels, the Psychomachia of Prudentius, and the Junius Manuscript.

DKK 326.00
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Guy of Saint-Denis, Tractatus de tonis - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Guy of Saint-Denis, Tractatus de tonis - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

The Tractatus de tonis of Guy of Saint-Denis (written ca. 1300-10)differs from other treatises on plainchant in the depth of its analysis of thevarious tones into which chant was traditionally classified. The treatise ofGuy of Saint-Denis is preserved as the concluding item in an anthology of textsabout plainchant that Guy compiled (now London, British Library, MS Harley281), beginning with some writings of Guido of Arezzo and a Cistercian tonary,but also including the Ars musice ofJohannes de Grocheio and the Tractatus detonis of Petrus de Cruce. Guy''s treatise presents itself as a syntheticoverview of both the theory and practice of plainchant in a way that combinesthe very practical reflection of Guido of Arezzo with ideas of more Aristoteleianinspired theorists such as Johannes de Grocheio and Peter of Auvergne.

DKK 416.00
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Guy of Saint-Denis, Tractatus de tonis - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Guy of Saint-Denis, Tractatus de tonis - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

The Tractatus de tonis of Guy of Saint-Denis (written ca. 1300-10)differs from other treatises on plainchant in the depth of its analysis of thevarious tones into which chant was traditionally classified. The treatise ofGuy of Saint-Denis is preserved as the concluding item in an anthology of textsabout plainchant that Guy compiled (now London, British Library, MS Harley281), beginning with some writings of Guido of Arezzo and a Cistercian tonary,but also including the Ars musice ofJohannes de Grocheio and the Tractatus detonis of Petrus de Cruce. Guy''s treatise presents itself as a syntheticoverview of both the theory and practice of plainchant in a way that combinesthe very practical reflection of Guido of Arezzo with ideas of more Aristoteleianinspired theorists such as Johannes de Grocheio and Peter of Auvergne.

DKK 217.00
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Prose Merlin - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Prose Merlin - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

This anonymously authored Middle English adaptation of the Old French Vulgate Cycle survives in one manuscript, Cambridge University Library MS Ff.3.11, and was written near the middle of the fifteenth century, making it the single earliest piece of prose Arthuriana in Middle English. A complete account of its titular character’s life, the Prose Merlin follows the sorcerer from birth to final imprisonment by his former apprentice, Nimiane. Although composed not long before Malory’s Arthurian epic Le Morte D’Arthur , the Prose Merlin provides a more focused and optimistic account of the Arthurian court, while also reveling in the supernatural themes of its subjects. This edition, accessible to the reader unfamiliar with Middle English prose, is the first complete edition of the romance published since the nineteenth century, making it a valuable resource for modern scholarship.

DKK 415.00
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The Siege of Thebes - John Lydgate - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

The Siege of Thebes - John Lydgate - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

John Lydgate, Benedictine monk and prolific author of Middle English poetry, finished writing The Siege of Thebes in the early 1420s. An apocryphal Canterbury Tale, The Siege is Lydgate’s counterpart to Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale and remains the only extant Middle English retelling of the struggle between Oedipus’s sons. Across its four parts, The Siege unfolds the aftermath of a paternal curse and the conflict between two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, over their father’s throne. As the follow-up to Lydgate’s Troy Book , The Siege adopts some of the moralizing practices of that earlier text, as well as interrogating issues of poetic authority. It is Lydgate’s most political poem and boasts a lasting influence on Caxton’s printed edition of The Historie of Jason . This edition, based on MS Arundel 119, presents readers with an accessible approach to The Siege of Thebes .

DKK 217.00
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The Book of John Mandeville - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

The Book of John Mandeville - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

The Book of John Mandeville comprises a fourteenth-century bestseller of the Middle Ages, providing European readers with exoticized information regarding Constantinople, China, and the religious practices of Eastern Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. Despite the fact that its supposed author, Sir John Mandeville, is a fictional construct, hundreds of manuscript copies of the work still exist, testifying to its runaway popularity. Distributed in the original French as well as English and Latin, The Book of John Mandeville has had an outsized and enduring influence on later European orientalism, being consulted often by prominent figures like Christopher Columbus and Sir Walter Raleigh. This edition, based on British Library MS Royal 17 C., introduces readers to one of the most popular Middle English versions of the story, in a manner accessible to readers both new and familiar with medieval travel narratives.

DKK 217.00
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The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 2 - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 2 - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Although few concrete details exist about the fourteenth-century manuscript known as London, British Library MS Harley 2253, it contains one of the most important surviving literary collections from medieval England. In rarity, quality and abundance, its collection of secular love lyrics is unrivaled, accompanying delicate lyrics of religious devotion and contemporary political songs preserved in no other manuscript. Beyond these Middle English treasures are no less intriguing French and Latin works: four fabliaux (the largest set from medieval England), three Anglo-Saxon saints’ lives, and numerous satires, comedies, debates, interludes, collected sayings, conduct literature, Bible stories, dream interpretations, and pilgrim guides. This phenomenal range owes to the Ludlow scribe, the manuscript’s compiler and copyist, himself credited with authoring parts of the collection. Volume 2 presents Booklets 3, 4, and the majority of Booklet 5 of the manuscript, including its extraordinary anthology of religious and secular lyrics.

DKK 416.00
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The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Although few concrete details exist about the fourteenth-century manuscript known as London, British Library MS Harley 2253, it contains one of the most important surviving literary collections from medieval England. In rarity, quality and abundance, its collection of secular love lyrics is unrivaled, accompanying delicate lyrics of religious devotion and contemporary political songs preserved in no other manuscript. Beyond these Middle English treasures are no less intriguing French and Latin works: four fabliaux (the largest set from medieval England), three Anglo-Saxon saints’ lives, and numerous satires, comedies, debates, interludes, collected sayings, conduct literature, Bible stories, dream interpretations, and pilgrim guides. This phenomenal range owes to the Ludlow scribe, the manuscript’s compiler and copyist, himself credited with authoring parts of the collection. Volume 1 presents Booklets 1 and 2 of the manuscript, containing the rich assortment of religious narratives in Anglo-French verse and prose copied by Scribe A.

DKK 415.00
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The Digby Mary Magdalene Play - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

The Digby Mary Magdalene Play - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

The Digby Mary Magdalene is named after the sixteenth-century manuscript containing the play’s only known copy. Along with “The Conversion of Saint Paul,” its companion in Bodleian Library MS Digby 133, it also provides exclusive access to the dramatic genre of the English saint play. This multifaceted portrait of Mary weaves together several distinct narrative traditions of Mary as a noblewoman, prostitute, redeemed sinner, and meditative desert saint, highlighting the paradoxes central to her broad appeal. The Digby Magdalene is striking for its simultaneously local and cosmopolitan character: it reflects the local priorities, religious devotion, and prolific tradition of English drama that characterize its home of East Anglia, yet incorporates elements from continental Europe’s wealth of texts, images, and performances dedicated to the Magdalene. By participating in this international tradition, the Digby Magdalene underscores Mary’s status as one of the most widely venerated saints of Western Europe.

DKK 214.00
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Codex Ashmole 61 - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Codex Ashmole 61 - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Among the surviving Middle English manuscripts produced in the fifteenth century, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61 stands out from a body of literary production otherwise dominated by professional scribes in London and other urban centers. The work of a lone scribe drawing on regional networks of literary circulation in the northern Midlands and Yorkshire, Codex Ashmole 61 belongs to a rising trend of “amateur productions” by individuals and families among the gentry and urban merchant classes in this period. Although this manuscript’s contents have been previously published in scattered and hard-to-find collections, the present edition by George Shuffelton collects these texts and extensive notes in one comprehensive volume. Gathering together a wide range of material including popular romances, saints’ lives, moral exempla, comic tales, and religious literature, Codex Ashmole 61 offers rare and valuable insights into the devotional habits, cultural values, and popular tastes of late medieval England.

DKK 415.00
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Lybeaus Desconus - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Lybeaus Desconus - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Surviving in six extant manuscripts and referenced by later English luminaries such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Thomas Malory, and John Skelton, Lybeaus Desconus ranks among the most popular of Middle English romances. Dated to the mid-fourteenth century, it belongs to the widely disseminated narrative tradition of “the Fair Unknown,” in which a handsome and mysterious young outsider journeys to King Arthur’s court to prove his worth despite his illegitimate birth. Granted the opportunity to demonstrate his physical prowess and hidden nobility, Lybeaus undertakes a series of quests that pit him against supernatural foes, teach him chivalric conduct, overcome his illegitimacy, and restore his patrimony. This edition presents two manuscript versions belonging to distinct textual traditions of the tale, with the original author’s version preserved in Lambeth Palace MS 306, and the fifteenth-century revision from Naples XIII.B.29 reflecting a late medieval trend of adapting earlier material to new contexts.

DKK 179.00
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The Poems of Laurence Minot, 1333-1352 - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

The Poems of Laurence Minot, 1333-1352 - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Little is known about fourteenth-century poet Laurence Minot, though his political convictions and proximity to military information suggest a position in the courts of King Edward III. Minot’s eleven Middle English poems celebrate a sequence of English victories on the Scottish border and the continent between 1333 and 1352, in a conflict that would become the Hundred Years’ War. Together, these poems—seemingly written immediately after the battles—form a propagandistic chronicle of military feats that ultimately glorify the English army. Minot’s verse is animated by an ardent patriotism that often manifests as denigration against the enemy Scots and French. Richard Osberg identifies the dialect as Lincolnshire, and links the texts’ alliteration, prosody, and lexicon to political lyrics found in MS Harley 2253. Osberg pieces together the extant evidence about Minot into a speculative biography and brings to light a series of poems that has been largely neglected.

DKK 172.00
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The York Corpus Christi Plays - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

The York Corpus Christi Plays - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Medieval Christians observed the feast of Corpus Christi through not only solemn processions with the consecrated Host, but also pageants and plays depicting central moments from salvation history. These vernacular-language dramas inspired medieval audiences toward greater devotion and encouraged emotional participation in such events as the Creation of Adam and Eve, the Nativity, and the Crucifixion. This edition’s forty-seven plays, preserved exclusively in the fifteenth-century manuscript known as London, British Library, MS Add. 35290, form the only complete play cycle verifiably performed as part of the feast of Corpus Christi at a specific location in England. Performed by members of York’s craft and mercantile guilds on mobile wagon stages, these plays were an annual tradition observed continuously from the fourteenth century until their suppression amid anti-Catholic sentiment in 1569. Not performed again until the twentieth century, the York Corpus Christi Plays represent a unique, remarkable survival of Middle English drama.

DKK 315.00
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The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 3 - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 3 - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Although few concrete details exist about the fourteenth-century manuscript known as London, British Library MS Harley 2253, it contains one of the most important surviving literary collections from medieval England. In rarity, quality and abundance, its collection of secular love lyrics is unrivaled, accompanying delicate lyrics of religious devotion and contemporary political songs preserved in no other manuscript. Beyond these Middle English treasures are no less intriguing French and Latin works: four fabliaux (the largest set from medieval England), three Anglo-Saxon saints’ lives, and numerous satires, comedies, debates, interludes, collected sayings, conduct literature, Bible stories, dream interpretations, and pilgrim guides. This phenomenal range owes to the Ludlow scribe, the manuscript’s compiler and copyist, himself credited with authoring parts of the collection. Volume 3 presents Booklet 5’s last works and Booklets 6 and 7 of the manuscript, including a handbook of practical religion and the largest English collection of Anglo-Norman fabliaux.

DKK 416.00
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John Hardyng, Chronicle - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

John Hardyng, Chronicle - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

One of the few texts written in the twilight years of Henry VI’s reign, John Hardyng’s first Chronicle , completed in 1457, offers the observations, hopes, and anxieties of a gentleman soldier who participated in the key events that defined his era. Born in Northumbria, Hardyng was a royal spy sent to investigate Scotland’s unrest. He later incorporated his extensive knowledge of Scottish politics into his Middle English Chronicle , documenting the history of British kings, including mythological figures like Lear and Arthur. His text advises the English crown on themes like the body politic, war, lawlessness, justice, and self-governance in the troubled period preceding and during the War of the Roses. Volume 1 contains the Prologue and first three books. Transcribed from MS Lansdowne 204, this edition presents not only the first complete edition of the Chronicle but also offers insight into the material conditions of its composition, discovered during the British Library’s multispectral imaging.

DKK 313.00
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The Castle of Perseverance - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

The Castle of Perseverance - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

The surviving Middle English morality plays comprise five texts dating from the late fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries, united by a shared interest in allegorizing the life of man and his struggle against sin. Of these five plays, the fifteenth-century Macro Manuscript (Folger Shakespeare Library MS. V.a.354) preserves three, including the only surviving copy of The Castle of Perseverance. The most comprehensive of these English morality plays, The Castle depicts the entire human experience, starting before Mankind’s birth and ending with his salvation after death, and features an unusually large cast of thirty-three players in diverse allegorical roles. It is also unique among medieval English plays in providing a detailed stage plan in the same manuscript, including stage directions and intended physical layouts for stage locations. David Klausner’s edition presents this remarkable play in its original alliterative verse and bob-and-wheel stanza format, along with extensive glosses and notes.

DKK 217.00
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Chaucer and the Poems of 'Ch' - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Chaucer and the Poems of 'Ch' - - Bog - Medieval Institute Publications - Plusbog.dk

Although Chaucer is now best known for his English verse, he is believed to have composed a number of works in French early in his career. James Wimsatt proposes the fifteen lyrics in University of Pennsylvania MS 15, headed by the initials “Ch,” are likely by Chaucer. Composed around 1360, these French love lyrics employ three formes fixes song forms, most frequently the three-part balade, the five-stanza chanson royal, and the eight-line rondel. They feature highly conventional paeans, prayers, complaints, and advice about courtly love, including ample exempla from classical, biblical, and medieval romance sources. The “Ch” poet’s concentrated use of personification, striking extended metaphors, and elegant integration of the refrain comprise, according to Wimsatt, particularly Chaucerian touches. This edition presents the “Ch” poet’s lyrics in facing-page translation, and appendices offer the full contents of the Penn manuscript, related works, and an essay identifying Penn’s likely compiler as Oton de Granson, Chaucer’s French contemporary and fellow poet.

DKK 217.00
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