Books in the Early English Text Society Original Series series

The first edition of a translation of an Old French Commentary on the Penitential Psalms, made in the fifteenth century by Dame Eleanor Hull. She is the first woman to have made translations into English whose name is known, and about whom there is any information: she is a significant figure in English literary history, who has remained virtually unknown until now.

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An edition of four previously unpublished heretical dialogues in Middle English, translated or adapted from Wycliffite sources composed circa 1380-1420.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.

The mystical equivalent of a medieval manual for preachers, the work points us to what was best and worst in late medieval spirituality. The present work is a critical edition of one of the two complete Middle English translations of the "Liber", contained in the British Library.

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.

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.