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. 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.

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. 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 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.

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.

The Literal Sense and the Gospel of John in Late Medieval Commentary and Literature
The Literal Sense and the Gospel of John in Late Medieval Commentary and Literature

Author: MArk Hazard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1136719520

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Focusing on the famous Medieval commentator Nicolas of Lyra and the anonymous Middle English biblical adaptation of the Gospel of John, the Cursor Mundi, this book examines the development of the analytical tools of biblical literary criticism showing how late Medieval commentators negotiated the paradoxical interdependence of the literal and spiritual senses, as transmitted by traditional and inherited vocabularies, through a focus on narrative structure. Mark Hazard combines an enlightening account of the actual practice of professional commentators, the history of Gospel interpretation and cultural history to reveal that remarkable shift in the treatment of the Bible that modern scholars would regard as having laid the groundwork for the historical-critical methods in biblical research. As such this book sheds light not only on the 14th century practice of biblical interpretation, but will also be of value to those currenlty engaged in reading and writing about the bible.

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