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Sidrak and Bokkus: A Parallel-Text Edition From Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 559 and British Library, MS Lansdowne 793
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T. L. Burton, ed. Sidrak and Bokkus: A Parallel-Text Edition From Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 559 and British Library, MS Lansdowne 793. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society, 1998-99.
The Middle English Sidrak and Bokkus, a translation of the French Sidrac, is one of those texts likely to confirm to harried Middle English specialists that they were right not to have strayed from the medieval Gang of Four (Chaucer, Langland, Gower, and the Gawai...
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Sidrak and Bokkus: A Parallel-Text Edition From Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 559 and British Library, MS Lansdowne 793
AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association
; T. L. Burton, ed. Sidrak and Bokkus: A Parallel-Text Edition From Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 559 and British Library, MS Lansdowne 793. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society, 1998-99. The Middle English Sidrak and Bokkus, a translation of the French Sidrac,
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The Middle English 'Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle.'
Medium Aevum
; Because this article introduces an unpublished and little-known Middle English text, it engages necessarily in a diverse set of enquiries. As a consequence, the article is divided into sections which consider (I) the manuscript, (II) a history of the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle as it originated on the
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Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry.(Review)
Medium Aevum
; Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry, ed. O. S. Pickering (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), xii + 227 pp. ISBN 0-85991-424-0. 39.50 [pounds sterling]. With a shared and avowed desire to eschew `theoretical, socio-historical and bibliographical approaches' to literature, the
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Morey, James H. Book and Verse: a Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature.(Book Review)
ANQ
; Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2000. xviii, 428 pp. $34.95. James H. Morey's Book and Verse is a very useful bibliographic compilation that brings together, in one place, information about the range of biblical material available to and used by Middle English writers. It concentrates on materials already
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A Middle English satirical Letter in Brogyntyn MS II.1.(ESSAYS)
ANQ
; Brogyntyn MS II.1 (formerly known as Porkington MS 10) is a miscellany of a kind frequently found in Middle English, containing a wide variety of entertaining, instructive, and religious texts. In the first quire, eight scribes contributed a total of nine items on such topics as prognostication,
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The Middle English 'Mirror': An Edition Based on Bodleian Library.(Book Review)
Medium Aevum
; The Middle English 'Mirror': An Edition Based on Bodleian Library, MS Holkham misc. 40, ed. Kathleen Marie Blumreich, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 182; Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 9 (Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, in
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ANGLO-FRENCH AND MIDDLE ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN FEMINA NOVA.
Medium Aevum
; Although Anglicists have been aware for generations that French made an enormous contribution to the lexis of English in the later Middle Ages, not all the first-hand evidence of this contribution now available from non-literary sources has yet been thoroughly explored. For example, a comprehensive
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Layamon and the fortunes of yogh.(Medium Aevum)(Critical Essay)
Medium Aevum
; Discussion of one of the most interesting poems written in English between the Conquest and the fourteenth century is made slightly uneasy by problems concerning the title of the poem and the name of the author. Madden's edition of 1847, on which knowledge of the work depended for well over a
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Benvenutus Grassus; The Wonderful Art of the Eye: A Critical Edition of the Middle English Translation of his `De probatissima arte oculorum'.(Review)
Medium Aevum
; Benvenutus Grassus; The Wonderful Art of the Eye: A Critical Edition of the Middle English Translation of his `De probatissima arte oculorum', ed. L. M. Eldredge (East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1996). 350 pp. ISBN 0-8701-365-9. $24.95. Medievalists will welcome L. M.
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A labor of love
Humanities
; THE ELEVENTH-CENTURY BAYEUX TAPESTRY DESCRIBES WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR'S INVASION OF ENGLAND IN 1066 TO CLAIM THE THRONE LEFT VACANT BY THE DEATH OF KING EDWARD. THE NORMAN CONQUEST TRIGGERED THE SHIFT FROM OLD ENGLISH, AN ANGLO-SAXON LANGUAGE, TO FRENCH-INFLUENCED MIDDLE ENGLISH. Seventy-one years,
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