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The texts and contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud misc. 108 : the shaping of English vernacular narrative / edited by Kimberly K. Bell and Julie Nelson Couch.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; v. 6.
- Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts, 0925-7683 ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bodleian Library--Manuscript--Laud misc. 108.
- Bodleian Library.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--Criticism, Textual.
- English literature.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--Manuscripts.
- Manuscripts, English (Middle).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (366 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Brill, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The manuscript and its provenance
- pt. 2. The manuscript and its texts.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-12035-6
- 9786613120359
- 90-04-19224-7
- OCLC:
- 727948491
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004192065.i-342 DOI
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