The texts and contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, ms. Laud misc. 108: the shaping of English vernacular narrative
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Other Authors: Bell, Kimberly K. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden [u.a.] Brill 2011
Series:Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts 6
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Item Description:Introduction: Reading Oxford, Bodleian Library, ms Laud misc. 108 as a "whole book" -- Part one: the manuscript and its provenance -- Part two: the manuscript and its texts
The late thirteenth-century, monolingual Oxford manuscript, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108, bears singular importance to medieval studies, for it preserves and anthologizes unique versions of several seminal Middle English texts, including "South English Legendary," "Havelok the Dane," and "King Horn" and "Somer Soneday." While critics have traditionally classified these poems by genre, this book returns them to their manuscript context in a comprehensive examination of this vernacular codex. Considering the manuscript as a whole book rather than a
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 328, [14] S.)
ISBN:9789004192249
DOI:10.1163/ej.9789004192065.i-342

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