The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. I
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. I

Author: Sarah M. Horral

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1978-01-01

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 0776617257

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The medieval poem Cursor Mundi is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the year 1300, the poem was frequently copied in the north before appearing in a southern version in substantially altered form. Although it is a storehouse of popular medieval biblical lore and a fascinating study in the eclectic use of more than a dozen sources, the poem has until now attracted little scholarly attention. This five-part collaborative edition presents the Arundel version of the poem with variants from three others. In addition it provides a discussion of sources and analogues, detailed explanatory notes, and a bibliography.

The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. III
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. III

Author: Henry J. Stauffenberg

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0776617273

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The medieval poem Cursor Mundi is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the year 1300, the poem was frequently copied in the north before appearing in a southern version in substantially altered form. Although it is a storehouse of popular medieval biblical lore and a fascinating study in the eclectic use of more than a dozen sources, the poem has until now attracted little scholarly attention. This five-part collaborative edition presents the Arundel version of the poem with variants from three others. In addition it provides a discussion of sources and analogues, detailed explanatory notes, and a bibliography.

The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi Vol I: Lines 1-9228
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi Vol I: Lines 1-9228

Author: Sarah M. Horrall

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 0776648055

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The medieval poem Cursor Mundi is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the year 1300, the poem was frequently copied in the north before appearing in a southern version in substantially altered form. Although it is a storehouse of popular medieval biblical lore and a fascinating study in the eclectic use of more than a dozen sources, the poem has until now attracted little scholarly attention. This five-part collaborative edition presents the Arundel version of the poem with variants from three others. In addition, it provides a discussion of sources and analogues, detailed explanatory notes, and a bibliography. Published in English.

The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. V
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. V

Author: Laurence M. Eldredge

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2000-05-03

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0776617281

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The medieval poem Cursor Mundi is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the year 1300, the poem was frequently copied in the north before appearing in a southern version in substantially altered form. Although it is a storehouse of popular medieval biblical lore and a fascinating study in the eclectic use of more than a dozen sources, the poem has until now attracted little scholarly attention. This five-part collaborative edition presents the Arundel version of the poem with variants from three others. In addition it provides a discussion of sources and analogues, detailed explanatory notes, and a bibliography.

The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. II
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. II

Author: Roger R. Fowler

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0776617265

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The medieval poem Cursor Mundi is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the year 1300, the poem was frequently copied in the north before appearing in a southern version in substantially altered form. Although it is a storehouse of popular medieval biblical lore and a fascinating study in the eclectic use of more than a dozen sources, the poem has until now attracted little scholarly attention. This five-part collaborative edition presents the Arundel version of the poem with variants from three others. In addition it provides a discussion of sources and analogues, detailed explanatory notes, and a bibliography.

The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. IV
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. IV

Author: Peter H. J. Mous

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1997-10-17

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 077661729X

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The medieval poem Cursor Mundi is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the year 1300, the poem was frequently copied in the north before appearing in a southern version in substantially altered form. Although it is a storehouse of popular medieval biblical lore and a fascinating study in the eclectic use of more than a dozen sources, the poem has until now attracted little scholarly attention. This five-part collaborative edition presents the Arundel version of the poem with variants from three others. In addition it provides a discussion of sources and analogues, detailed explanatory notes, and a bibliography.

Authorising History
Authorising History

Author: Nicole Nyffenegger

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-10-02

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1443868418

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“This book discusses the strategies and rhetorical means by which four authors of Middle English verse historiography seek to authorise their works and themselves. Paying careful attention to the texts, it traces the ways in which authors inscribe their fictional selves and seek to give authority to their constructions of history. It further investigates how the authors position themselves in relation to their task of writing history, their sources and their audiences. This study provides new insights into the processes of the appropriation of history around 1300 by social groups whose lack of the relevant languages, before this ‘anglicising’ of the dominant Latin and French history constructions, prevented their access to the history of the British isles.” —Wilhelm Busse University of Düsseldorf

Readings in Medieval English Romance
Readings in Medieval English Romance

Author: Carol M. Meale

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780859914048

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Wide-ranging essays engaging with all aspects of medieval romance, from textual studies to historical sources.

The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature

Author: David Wallace

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-04-25

Total Pages: 1060

ISBN-13: 9780521890465

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This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: 'After the Norman Conquest'; 'Writing in the British Isles'; 'Institutional Productions'; 'After the Black Death' and 'Before the Reformation'. It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers an extensive and vibrant account of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.

Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the South English Legendary
Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the South English Legendary

Author: Anne B. Thompson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1351938088

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Anne Thompson here gives the fullest account and explanation to date of the diversity of the more than sixty manuscripts of the South English Legendary, a late thirteenth-century collection of lively verse lives of saints, in a southern English dialect. The importance of the SEL to hagiographic and cultural studies has been increasingly acknowledged in recent years. Without denying the legendaries’ religious purpose, this book looks at the way SEL narratives reflect and address the complex, interwined tapestry”political, social, religious”of Edward I’s England, while retaining a strong emphasis on the craft of story-telling. Thompson shows the SEL to be a fresh and exciting early example of popular vernacular literature. Firmly grounded in rural and small town life of the 1270s to 1290s in the west of England, it is uniquely significant for any understanding of that culture.