Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302)
Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302)

Author: John the Blind Audelay

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2009-10-01

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 158044444X

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Audelay's idiosyncratic devotional tastes, interesting personal life history, and declared political affiliations-loyalty to king, upholder of estates, anxiety over heresy-make him worthy of careful study beside his better-known contemporaries. Of particular note: MS Douce 302 preserves Audelay's own alliterative Marcolf and Solomon, a poem thought to be descended from Langland's Piers Plowman. The Audelay Manuscript also contains unique copies of other alliterative poems of the ornate style seen in Gawain and the Green Knight and The Pistel of Swete Susan. These pieces are Paternoster and Three Dead Kings, both set at the end of the book. Whether or not they are Audelay's own compositions, they seem certain to be his own selections. Audelay also displays a persistent habit of sequencing materials in generic and devotionally affective ways. His is a pious sensibility delicately honed by reverence for the liturgy and by an awe of God. That Audelay's poetry can awaken us to new poetic sensitivities in medieval devotional verse is reason enough to bring him into the ambit of canonical fifteenth-century English poets.

Language and Slavery
Language and Slavery

Author: Jacques Arends

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2017-07-26

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 9027265801

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This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little known historical texts, the author points out the relevance of European settlements prior to colonization by the English in 1651 and concludes that the formation of the Surinamese creoles goes back further than generally assumed. He provides an all-encompassing sociolinguistic overview of the colony up to the mid-19th century and shows how ethnicity, language attitude, religion and location had an effect on which languages were spoken by whom. The author discusses creole data gleaned from the earliest sources and interprets the attested variation. The book is completed by annotated textual data, both oral and written and representing different genres and stages of the Surinamese creoles. It will be of interest to linguists, historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and anyone interested in Suriname.

Ginza Rba
Ginza Rba

Author: Majid Fandi Al-Mubaraki

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 9780958570527

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Croxton Play of the Sacrament
Croxton Play of the Sacrament

Author: John T Sebastian

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1580444571

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The Croxton Play of the Sacrament, which survives in a single sixteenth-century copy, dramatizes the physical abuse by five Muhammad-worshipping Syrian Jews of a Host, the bread consecrated by a priest during the Christian Mass. The text is the work of a playwright possessed of a tremendous theatrical imagination, notwithstanding his choice of subject matter.

An Introductory Grammar of Rabbinic Hebrew
An Introductory Grammar of Rabbinic Hebrew

Author: Miguel Pérez Fernández

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9789004109049

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The student is introduced to the grammar, forms of expression, and idiosyncrasies of Rabbinic Hebrew. The book comprises 32 teaching units, each with a phraseology section, vocabulary, and exercise texts. Historical and morphological aspects are discussed as well as syntax and usage. There is an introductory survey of research into Rabbinic Hebrew and a detailed bibliography.