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The Katherine Group MS Bodley 34 : religious writings for women in medieval England / edited by Emily Rebekah Huber and Elizabeth Robertson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Middle English texts (Kalamazoo, Mich.)
- Middle English texts series
- Language:
- English
- English, Middle (1100-1500)
- Subjects (All):
- English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
- English prose literature.
- English prose literature--Middle English.
- Manuscripts, Medieval--England.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Christian women saints--Legends.
- Christian women saints.
- England.
- Devotional literature, English (Middle).
- Sermons, Medieval--England.
- Sermons, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 357 pages ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English and Middle English.
- Summary:
- The goal of the Middle English Texts Series is to make available to teachers and students texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily available in student editions. The focus is on literature adjacent to that normally in print, which teachers needs in compiling the syllabuses they wish to teach. The editions maintain the linguistic integrity of the original work but within the parameters of modern reading conventions. The project is sponsored by the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS) and is edited by a team based in the Rossell Hope Robbins Library at the University of Rochester. The Katherine Group brings together for the first time newly edited and translated versions of all five of the influential thirteenth-century religious prose texts written for and about women that appear in a single manuscript, Bodley 34. These texts include three dynamic saints' lives, The Lives of Saints Katherine, Margaret and Juliana, a quirky but rhetorically persuasive guide to virginity, Hali Meidenhad ("Holy Virginity"), and a psychologically astute sermon, Sawles Warde ("The Guardianship of the Soul") which addresses the crucial need of the contemplative to find emotional balance in her daily life. First brought to our attention in 1929 by J. R. R. Tolkien, these works are important witnesses to the development of Middle English writing after the Conquest and to the rigorous anchoritic spiritual life pursued by female recluses in medieval England. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The Martyrdom of Sancte Katerine (The Martyrdom of Saint Katherine) 25
- Explanatory Notes 63
- Textual Notes 77
- The Liflade Ant Te Passiun of Seinte Margarete (The Life and Passion of Saint Margaret) 87
- Explanatory Notes 119
- Textual Notes 133
- The Liflade Ant Te Passiun of Seinte Juliene (The Life and Passion of Saint Juliana) 141
- Explanatory Notes 169
- Textual Notes 181
- Hali Meithhad (Holy Maidenhood) 189
- Explanatory Notes 221
- Textual Notes 241
- Sawles Warde (The Guardianship of the Soul) 249
- Explanatory Notes 267
- Textual Notes 275.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781580442480
- 158044248X
- OCLC:
- 950954670
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