The texts and contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud misc. 108 the shaping of English vernacular narrative
The late thirteenth-century, monolingual Oxford manuscript, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108, bears singular importance to medieval studies, for it preserves and anthologizes unique versions of several seminal Middle English texts, including South English Legendary , Havelok the Dane , and King H...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ;
v. 6. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009758538206719 |
| Summary: | The late thirteenth-century, monolingual Oxford manuscript, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108, bears singular importance to medieval studies, for it preserves and anthologizes unique versions of several seminal Middle English texts, including South English Legendary , Havelok the Dane , and King Horn and Somer Soneday . While critics have traditionally classified these poems by genre, this book returns them to their manuscript context in a comprehensive examination of this vernacular codex. Considering the manuscript as a “whole book” rather than a miscellany of romances, saints' lives, and religious poems, these inter-connected essays focus on the physical, contextual, and critical intersections of Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108. Codicological evidence foregrounds the manuscript’s investment in a particular vision of an English Christian identity. Contributors are A.S.G. Edwards, Thomas R. Liszka, Murray J. Evans, Andrew Taylor, Diane Speed, Susanna Fein, Robert Mills, Andrew Lynch, Daniel Kline, Christina M. Fitzgerald, and J. Justin Brent. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781283120357 9786613120359 9789004192249 |
