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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 miscellany of romances, saints' lives, and religious poems, these inter-connected essays focus on the physical, contextual, and critical intersections of Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108. Codicological evidence foregrounds the manuscript’s investment in a particular vision of an English Christian identity.
Contributors are A.S.G. Edwards, Thomas R. Liszka, Murray J. Evans, Andrew Taylor, Diane Speed, Susanna Fein, Robert Mills, Andrew Lynch, Daniel Kline, Christina M. Fitzgerald, and J. Justin Brent.
Contributors are A.S.G. Edwards, Thomas R. Liszka, Murray J. Evans, Andrew Taylor, Diane Speed, Susanna Fein, Robert Mills, Andrew Lynch, Daniel Kline, Christina M. Fitzgerald, and J. Justin Brent.
Price: $237.00
Pages: 24
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
17 December 2010
ISBN: 9789004192065
Format: Hardcover
"this collection sets out to demonstrate that SEL is an important witness to the emergence of Middle English, and that its series of texts can be read as a series, yielding unique insight into medieval literary culture. This it accomplishes quite well. It is my hope that this volume will serve as a model for scholars to approach other manuscripts, for only with a team of scholars, working together intensively over the same codex, are we poised to see the complexities and nuances of medieval England's literary culture." Mike Johnston (Purdue University) in The Medieval Review 11.10.18
Kimberly K. Bell,, Ph.D. (2002) in English, Georgia State University, is Associate Professor of English at Sam Houston State University. She has published articles on various Middle English texts, including Havelok the Dane (2008).
Julie Nelson Couch, Ph.D. (2000) in English, Brown University, is Associate Professor of English at Texas Tech University. She has published several articles on texts found in the Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108, including two recent articles on Havelok the Dane (2008).
Julie Nelson Couch, Ph.D. (2000) in English, Brown University, is Associate Professor of English at Texas Tech University. She has published several articles on texts found in the Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108, including two recent articles on Havelok the Dane (2008).