Books in the Early English Text Society Original Series series

First edition for over 100 years of The Festial, by the Augustinian canon John Mirk, of Lilleshall Abbey, the best known medieval sermon collection. Volume 2 completes the edition begun with OS 334 (2009), and contains second half of the text, the Explanatory Notes, and Glossary.

An edition of four previously unpublished heretical dialogues in Middle English, translated or adapted from Wycliffite sources composed circa 1380-1420. Provides a comprehensive introduction to Wycliffite belief and arguments on a range of controversial topics including anti-fraternalism and the conflict between papal and imperial power.

First edition for over 100 years of The Festial, the best-known of medieval English sermon collections, by the Augustinian canon, John Mirk, of Lilleshall Abbey. Volume 1 volume contains the Introduction and the first half of the text; Volume 2 (to be published in 2010) will contain the remainder of the text, Explanatory Notes, and Glossary.

Contains an Introduction, Explanatory Notes, Glossary, and Index to complete this three-volume edition. Gilte Legende is a translation into English, made in 1438, from Jean de Vignay's Legende doree, itself translated from Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea, the standard medieval collection of saints' lives.

British Library MS Harley 913, known as the 'Kildare Manuscript', contains the earliest examples of Anglo-Irish writing. It includes numerous well-known poems and gives vivid insights into the lives of Anglo-Irish Franciscans at a time of unrest between native Irish and English settlers.

This edition presents a collection of all the known fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English technical recipes for painters, strainers, illuminators, and scribes. Most of the texts are published here for the first time, and many were previously unknown.