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This edition of a difficult and neglected late Old English scientific text throws light on our knowledge of scientific scholarship in the 11th century. The text is accompanied by a full apparatus criticus and facing modern English translation, with glossaries of the Latin and Old English words.
The Paston family papers provide an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England, and richly illustrate the resources of the language at an important period. This is a reissue, with corrections, of the volume originally published by the Clarendon Press in 1976.
An edition of the forty Old English homilies which make up the first of the two series of Catholic Homilies written by Aelfric of Eynsham c. 990. A major work of Anglo-Saxon prose, written by one of the foremost scholars of his time.
The N-Town Cycle is one of the four extant Middle English cycles of mystery plays. A collection of unknown origin, it is composite and in many ways unique. Its 41 plays, dramatizing divine history from Creation to Doomsday, illustrate ways of reading, supplementing, and altering biblical accounts.
The Paston family papers provide an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England, and richly illustrate the resources of the language at an important period. This is a reissue, with corrections, of the volume originally published by the Clarendon Press in 1971.
The Old English Canons of Theodore is one of the earliest handbooks of penance to appear in any West European vernacular. This edition situates the texts within the context of early penitential practice and social history, and provides a full bibliography and extensive commentary.
The definitive scholarly edition of the York Plays, first published in 1982, and now reissued in a revised and updated edition, with full annotation and introduction, in two volumes. This volume includes the Introduction and Text, with an appendix containing the musical settings accompanying the plays.
This text contains notes and a glossary on and is intended for scholars and students of medieval literature and drama.
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