Placing Middle English in Context
Placing Middle English in Context

Author: Irma Taavitsainen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-10-31

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 3110869519

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The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

The Owl and the Nightingale and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II)
The Owl and the Nightingale and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II)

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Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2022-05-25

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 1580445225

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An edition of the early Middle English verse sequence contained in the thirteenth-century Oxford Jesus College MS 29 (II) with accompanying translations in Modern English and scholarly introduction and apparatus. The sequence is varied in subject, with poems of religious exhortation set beside others of secular pragmatism. Included are: The Owl and the Nightingale, Poema Morale, The Proverbs of Alfred, Thomas of Hales's Love Rune, The Eleven Pains of Hell, the prose Shires and Hundreds of England, the lengthy Passion of Jesus Christ in English, and twenty-one additional lyrics, most of them uniquely preserved in this manuscript. Made in the West Midlands, the Jesus 29 manuscript is the lengthiest all-English verse collection known to exist in the period between the Exeter Book and the Harley Lyrics.