Late-Medieval Religious Texts and their Transmission: Essays in Honour of A.I. Doyle

by Alastair J. Alastair J. Minnis

Overview

11 studies of different types of late-medieval religious literature, in English, French and Latin.

This collection of new essays constitutes the proceedings of the sixth York Manuscripts Conference, held at the University of York in July 1991. Dr Doyle's lively introductory address is followed by eleven studies which range widely over the different types and genres of religious literature which were produced in late-medieval England, paying attention to both verse and prose, and representing the three literary languages of the time, English, French andLatin, though concentrating on texts in English.

Contributors: IAN DOYLE, BELLA MILLETT, O.S. PICKERING, JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE, THOMAS G. DUNCAN, SUE POWELL, RALPH HANNA III, VINCENT GILLESPIE, ANNE HUDSON, ALAN J. FLETCHER, A.S.G. EDWARDS, JOHN J. THOMPSON

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780859913867
Publisher:	Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Publication date:	03/03/1994
Series:	ISSN , #3
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

This stimulating collection is a happy combination of scholarly learning and theoretical speculation.

MLR

This stimulating collection is a happy combination of scholarly learning and theoretical speculation. MLR

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