The Middle English ‘Mirror’: Sermons from Advent to Sexagesima
Edited from Glasgow, University Library, Hunter 250. With a Parallel Text of The Anglo-Norman ‘Miroir’. Edited from Nottingham, University Library, Mi LM 4
1. Edition, 2003
190 Pages
ISBN: 978-3-8253-1537-5
Product: Book
Edition: Softcover
Subject: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Series: Middle English Texts, Volume No.: 34
Available: 31.07.2003
Keywords:
Mittelenglisch, Kommentar, Überlieferungsgeschichte, Liturgie, Linguistik, Frömmigkeit, historische Sprachwissenschaft, Edition, England, Mediävistik, Textgeschichte, 13. Jahrhundert, 14. Jahrhundert, Predigtliteratur, Anglonormannisch, Mittelalter, Religiosität, Robert de Gretham
The ME Mirror, a fourteenth-century prose translation of the thirteenth-century AN Miroir by Robert de Gretham, is a text of cultural and linguistic value. As a cycle of sermons addressed to a lay audience, it offers extensive material for the study of popular preaching in fourteenth-century England. Four of the six surviving manuscripts exemplify that variety of fourteenth-century London language designated "Type II" by M. L. Samuels. Only brief, unedited extracts or quotations from the Mirror have hitherto appeared in print; a full critical edition will not appear for many years. This edition, based on MS Hunterian 250, Glasgow University Library, one of the "Type II" manuscripts, aims to present a sizeable sample of the Mirror including the Prologue and a representative selection of sermons with the Anglo-Norman source text given in parallel.