The Texts and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108. The Shaping of English Vernacular Narrative


PREZZO : EUR 185,00€
CODICE: ISBN 9004192069     EAN 9789004192065
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The Texts and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108. The Shaping of English Vernacular Narrative

PREZZO : EUR 185,00€

CODICE :
ISBN 9004192069    
EAN 9789004192065

AUTORE/CURATORE/ARTISTA :
Edited by: , Contributions by: , , , , , , , , , ,

EDITORE/PRODUTTORE:


COLLANA/SERIE:


ANNO:
2010

DISPONIBILITA':
In esaurimento

CARATTERISTICHE TECNICHE:
368 pages
Hardback

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Publisher's description:
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.


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