Richard Morris's Prick of conscience : a corrected and amplified reading text / prepared by Ralph Hanna and Sarah Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanna, Ralph, editor.

Wood, Sarah Joy, 1980- editor.

Morris, Richard, 1833-1894, editor.

Series:

Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; no. 342.

Early English Text Society ; O.S. 342

Standardized Title:

Prick of conscience.

Language:

English

English, Middle (1100-1500)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Christian life--Early works to 1800.

Christian life.

Prick of conscience.

Christian poetry, English (Middle)--History and criticism.

Christian poetry, English (Middle).

Genre:

Christian poetry, English (Middle)

Physical Description:

lxxxv, 413 pages : 1 facsimile ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

Text of Prick of conscience in Middle English (with some passages in Latin); introduction and notes in English.

Summary:

"This mid fourteenth-century poem, a discussion of the 'contempt of the world' and the 'Four Last Things', was one of the most popular Middle English texts in its time, as indicated by the large number of extant copies, and illustrations of it in the windows of All Saints, North Street, in York. It was a widely influential compendium of religious instruction, originating in Yorkshire, but more widely disseminated, and thus representing this important regional culture, as well as its absorption into a nationwide religious culture. The only edition, by Richard Morris (1863), is now generally unavailable outside research libraries. The present edition revises Morris's text extensively and offers full modern annotation, including extensive discussion of the poem's sources. Morris's text, although based on an exceptionally good manuscript copy, has been fully collated with the principal early manuscripts; this information is presented in a separate textual commentary. There is an introduction presenting the poem in its context and a Glossary."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

The poem and Morris's edition

The manuscripts used here

Authorship and the poet's dialect

The poet's verse

The aims and presentation of this edition

Bibliography.

Notes:

This new edition of the Middle English poem Prick of conscience draws on the only previous printed edition, which was published by Richard Morris in 1863.

Includes bibliographical references (pages lxxv-lxxxv) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780199680993

019968099X

OCLC:

826658737