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Edward, Second Duke Of York, Master Of Game

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 This is the first scholarly edition of the earliest book about hunting in English. Edward, Second Duke of York (d. 1415), adapted his treatise from an earlier French manual, but added much new material, and it is considered to be an accurate representation of English hunting practice in the early fifteenth century.
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The Trinity Homilies - A Corrected Edition Of The Early Middle English Sermon-Collection In Cambridge, Trinity College, Ms B. 14. 52

by Millett

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 This is a new edition of an important collection of Middle English sermons, the 'Trinity Homilies', copied towards the end of the twelfth century. It contains facing-page translations, an extended introduction, detailed textual commentary, and full glossary.
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A History Of The Early English Text Society - Vol. I, The Early Years: Frederick James Furnivall, 1825-1864

by Dr Helen Leith (Fellow Emerita, Fellow Emerita, Exeter College, University Of Oxford) Spencer

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 The Early English Text Society (EETS) was founded in 1864 by F. J. Furnivall, who was fascinated by medieval texts and their insights into social history. This first volume of the EETS's history offers much new material concerning Furnivall's biography as a young man, as well his association with figures including Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites.
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William Worcester, The Boke Of Noblesse And The English Texts From Its Codicil

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William Worcester, The Boke Of Noblesse And The English Texts From Its Codicil

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 William Worcester's treatise The Boke of Noblesse offers a unique record of military history and political thought in England in the fifteenth century. This new edition draws on the copious surviving records of Worcester's life, reading, and handwritten revisions, which give a unique insight into a medieval author and his work.
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The Wycliffite Old Testament Lectionary

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 This volume presents the first full edition of the Wycliffite Old Testament Lectionary, together with an introduction containing a complete list and description of all extant manuscripts (surviving from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries).
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Caxton'S Golden Legend, Vol. Ii

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 This is volume II of the first scholarly edition of the Golden Legend, the largest and most elaborate production of the first printer in English, William Caxton.
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Osbern Bokenham - Lives Of The Saints

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 This is the first edition of a major work by the translator and hagiographer Osbern Bokenham comprising a complete translation of a collection of Latin saints lives into Middle English.
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A Middle English Translation From Petrarch'S Secretum

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 This is the first printed edition of a landmark work in the history of English humanism and perhaps English drama: a translation of part of Petrarch's Secretum into English verse.
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Lanfrank'S Science Of Cirurgie

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 A catalogue that describes various manuscripts of the B-version of Piers Plowman, with an account of annotations.
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Old English Homilies From Ms. Bodley 343

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 This edition presents several Old English texts from an Oxford manuscript. The works are unique to this manuscript and have not been edited since 1909, when only a text and translation were supplied. Four of the texts are by the 10th-century writer Aelfric, while the others are anonymous.
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Ancrene Wisse Volume 1 - A Corrected Edition Of The Text In Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 402, With Variants From Other Manuscripts

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 The early thirteenth-century guide for women recluses, Ancrene Wisse is one of the major works of early Middle English prose, and an important document in the history of European pastoral literature. This new edition, based on the full manuscript evidence, sets it in its broader cultural and institutional context. Volume II will be published in 2006.
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The Seven Sages Of Rome - (Midland Version)

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 A collection of stories concerning wicked women and wise counsellors, extremely popular in the Middle Ages.
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The Defective Version Of Mandeville'S Travels

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 Containing part of the description of Egypt and based on examination of the manuscripts of the Middle English text and its French source, this collection of travellers' tales offers details of the author's indirect reliance on Marco Polo for much of his Asian relation.
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The Revelation Of The Monk Of Eynsham

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 An edition of a fifteenth-century translation of a Latin vision of purgatory and paradise experienced in 1196 by Edmund, monk of Eynsham. The translation is presented with the Latin text in parallel. This edition also includes a full discussion of the historical context and the translation.
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Sidrak And Bokkus, A Parallel-Text Edition: Volume Ii - A Parallel-Text Edition From Bodleian Library, Ms Laud Misc. 559, And British Library, Ms Lansdowne 793

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 A 15th-century book of knowledge, written in verse in question-and-answer form and enclosed in a framing adventure story. The English version is taken from an Old French source. The work covers a very wide range of topics and is of interest as an index of popular beliefs in the Middle Ages.
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The English Text Of The Ancrene Riwle - The 'Vernon'Text

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 There is much interest in the "mouvance" of a medieval text, the way different manuscripts reflect its evolution to meet changing needs. "Ancrene Riwle" (Ancrene Wisse), composed in the 13th century began as a guide for anchoresses, but served as a guide to spirituality down the Reformation.
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The Imitation Of Christ - The First English Translation Of The Imitatio Christi

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 The Imitatio Christi, probably written by Thomas Ã Kempis in the 1420s, has become one of the most popular texts of Christian devotion. This new edition of its first English translation, made in the mid-fifteenth century, includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and a glossary.
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The Goodli History Of The Ladye Lucres Of Scene And Of Her Lover Eurialus - The Goodli History Of The Ladye Lucres

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 This is a critical edition of the sixteenth-century translation into English of the Latin novella, the Historia de Duobus Amantibus, by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini. This edition, which was previously only accessible in an old and rare diplomatic reprint, demonstrates clearly the full impact of Italian Renaissance learning on English prose fiction.
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Castleford'S Chronicle, Or The Boke Of Brut: Volume Ii - Books Vii To Xii

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 This volume comprises the second half of "Castleford's Chronicle" - a verse chronicle, written in a Northern English dialect, which recounts the history of Britain from its foundation year to 1327. It is one of the earliest compendia in English of the events of British history as then understood.
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Castleford'S Chronicle, Or The Boke Of Brut: Volume I - Books I To Vi

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 This volume comprises the first half of "Castleford's Chronicle" - a verse chronicle, written in a Northern English dialect, which recounts the history of Britain from its foundation year to 1327. It is one of the earliest compendia in English of the events of British history as then understood.
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Contemplations Of The Dread And Love Of God

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 A critical edition of a late-medieval devotional prose text, also known as "Fervor Amoris". It has a full critical apparatus, and an introduction which discusses manuscript relations, matters of textual criticism, editorial technique, language, and dating.
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Two Wycliffite Texts - The Sermon Of William Taylor 1406; The Testimony Of William Thorpe 1407

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 The two texts here set out the views of two followers of the heretic John Wyclif in the years 1406-07. The first, a sermon by William Taylor, caused a scandal in London when it was preached. The second, an account of conversations between William Thorpe and Archbishop Arundel, sets out clearly many points concerning the history and views of the heretics between the 1380s and 1407.
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The Vercelli Homilies And Related Texts

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 A critical edition of the Old English homilies in Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare MS CXVII, with parallel passages from related manuscripts. The text has a critical apparatus giving the readings of other manuscripts and analogues from other homilies, and there is a commentary.
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The Middle English Physiologus

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 This separate edition of "The Physiologus" is taken from the sole surviving manuscript, with apparatus, commentary, glossary and introduction. The commentary deals with textual problems and with the Middle English poet's handling of his Latin sources.
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