Pearl : a Middle English edition and modern English translation / edited and translated by Jane Beal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beal, Jane, editor, translator.

Series:

Broadview editions

Standardized Title:

Pearl (Middle English poem)

Language:

English

English, Middle (1100-1500)

Subjects (All):

Pearl (Middle English poem)--Translations into English.

Pearl (Middle English poem).

Genre:

Poetry.

Translations.

Physical Description:

217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, [2020]

Language Note:

Text in original Middle English and modern English translation on facing pages.

Summary:

"The fourteenth-century Middle English poem Pearl is one of the best dream vision poems ever written, yet its language (the North-west Midlands dialect of late-medieval England) and literary allusions (to biblical, mythological, and medieval works) make it difficult for modern readers to understand. This new dual-language edition of Pearl provides the original Middle English with a facing-page modern English translation. It includes a comprehensive introduction, annotations of key words and ideas, reproduction of the four manuscript illustrations, a literary sourcebook, and lists of biblical sources, significant liturgical dates, and the concatenation words. Literary and biblical sources for the poem are provided as appendices."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Pearl

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VI

Part VII

Part VIII

Part IX

Part X

Part XI

Part XII

Part XIII

Part XIV

Part XV

Part XVI

Part XVII

Part XVIII

Part XIX

Part XX

Appendix A Literary Sourcebook

Key Passages

1. Parables

a. Parable of the Pearl of Great Price

b. Parable of the Treasure in the Field

c. Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

2. Descriptions of Pearls

a. From Pliny, Natural History

b. From Albert the Great, De animalibus

c. From Marbod of Rennes, De lapidibus

d. From Bartholomasus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum

e. From The Peterborough Lapidary

f. From Florence McCulloch, Mediaeval Latin and French Bestiaries

3. Jacobus de Voragine, "Life of Saint Margaret of Antioch," The Golden Legend (c. 1260)

4. Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, "The Spring of Narcissus," The Romance of the Rose

5. The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice, King Alfred's Version of the Consolation of Philosophy (late ninth century)

6. From Dante, Purgatorio XXIX-XXXIII (early fourteenth century)

7. Ovid, "Pygmalion and Galatea," Metamorphoses (first century CE)

8. Ovid, "The Phoenix of Arabia," Metamorphoses (first century CE)

9. From Origen, The Song of Songs: Commentary and Homilies (second century CE)

10. "The New Jerusalem," Revelation 21.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217).

Other Format:

Online version: Pearl.

ISBN:

9781554814589

1554814588

OCLC:

1108508748