The Middle English Mirror : sermons from Quinquagesima to Pentecost / edited from Glasgow, University Library, Hunter 250 by Margaret Connolly and Thomas G. Duncan with a parallel text of The Anglo-Norman Miroir edited from Nottingham, University Library, WLC/LM/4.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robert de Gretham, active 13th century, author.

Contributor:

Connolly, Margaret, 1965- editor.

Duncan, Thomas G. (Thomas Gibson), editor.

University of Glasgow. Library.

University of Nottingham. Library.

Series:

Middle English texts ; 62.

Middle English texts ; 62

Standardized Title:

Miroir. English (Middle English)

Language:

English

English, Middle (1100-1500)

Romance (Other)

Subjects (All):

Robert de Gretham, active 13th century. Miroir.

Robert de Gretham.

Anglo-Norman dialect--Texts.

Anglo-Norman dialect.

English language--Middle English, 1100-1500--Texts.

English language.

Sermons, Medieval--England.

Sermons, Medieval.

England.

Sermons, English (Middle).

Miroir (Robert de Gretham).

English language--Middle English.

Sermons, French.

Genre:

Texts.

Sermons.

Physical Description:

xxii, 226 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2021]

Language Note:

Anglo-Norman and Middle English texts on facing pages; critical matter in English.

Summary:

'The ME "Mirror", a fourteenth-century prose translation of the thirteenth-century AN "Miroir" by Robert de Gretham, is a text of cultural and linguistic value. As a cycle of sermons addressed to a lay audience, it offers extensive material for the study of popular preaching in fourteenth-century England. Four of the six surviving manuscripts exemplify that variety of fourteenth-century London language designated "Type II" by M. L. Samuels. Only brief, unedited extracts or quotations from the "Mirror" had appeared in printed before the publication of "The Middle English Mirror: Sermons from Advent to Sexagesima" (MET 34) in 2003. The present volume is the second in a series that will publish the whole of the Middle English "Mirror" with the Anglo-Norman source in parallel. The edition is based on Glasgow, University Library, MS Hunter 250, one of the "Type II" manuscripts. The present volume includes sixteen sermons, those from Quinquagesima to Pentecost.' -- Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

"This edition of the Miroir is the first to take account of all the manuscript witnesses to the Middle English text and to consider the relationship of the Middle English translation on its Anglo-Norman source. ... This volume presents sixteen sermons, those from Quinquagesima to Pentecost (numbers 13-28 in the cycle)."--Page ix.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226).

Contains:

Container of: Robert de Gretham, active 13th century. Miroir. Selections (Connolly and Duncan)

Container of: Robert de Gretham, active 13th century. Miroir. Selections. English (Middle English)

ISBN:

9783825348786

3825348784

OCLC:

1273112742

Publisher Number:

9783825348786