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Doctors in English
The first complete translation of the Bible into English was produced by the followers of John Wyclif in the last quarter of the fourteenth century; it is known in two versions, …
The Mary Play
The Mary Play is a beautiful and engaging piece of late medieval stagecraft. It is rich in music and spectacle and is the only English play which deals with Mary's parents and her …
Malachy the Irishman, On Poison
The 'De venenis' attributed to 'Malachias Hibernicus' is a portable discussion of vices and virtues. Probably composed about 1280, originally as an aid for Franciscan preachers, it …
Speculum Inclusorum / A Mirror for Recluses
Interest in the anchoritic life in Europe, and medieval England in particular, has never been greater. And yet almost all the recent discussion tends to concentrate on the same …
The Arthurian Texts of the Percy Folio
The ‘Percy Folio’ (BL MS Add. 27879), a seventeenth-century miscellany of ballads, romances and songs is a highly significant document in English poetry. It was crucial to the …
The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s ‘Series’
Thomas Hoccleve’s Series (1419-21) tells the story of its own making. The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s Series analyzes this story and considers what it might contribute to the …
Selections from Layamon's Brut
Edition with notes, glossary and an introductory essay by C. S. Lewis.
The Poems of Lawrence Minot
Edition of eleven poems by Lawrence Minot, with introduction, appendices and select bibliography.
John Ridewall, Fulgentius metaforalis
John Ridewall's Fulgencius metaforalis is a moralising commentary on Fulgentius's sixth-century Mitologiae, an introduction to the classical gods and their stories. Composed in …