My Wyl and My Wrytyng: Essays on John the Blind Audelay

by Susanna Fein (Editor)

Overview

The essays examine Audelay's biography, his self-representation as the maker of his book, and the specific parts of that book, from the poems and colophons found in The Counsel of Conscience to the salutations and carols that follow in the manuscript, concluding with a defense of Audelay's authorship of Three Dead Kings and Fein's own study of the multiple endings of the Audelay Manuscript. The scholarly work gathered in this collection allows John the Blind Audelay to take his rightful place among his peers in early fifteenth-century English literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580441353
Publisher:	Medieval Institute Publications
Publication date:	04/01/2009
Series:	Research in Medieval Culture , #9
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x (d)

About the Author

Susanna Fein is professor of English and coordinator of the Arts and Sciences minor in Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies at Kent State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Table, Appendices, and Figures Note on the Presentation of Texts from the Audelay Manuscript The Audelay Manuscript: Table of Contents John Audelay and His Book: Critical Overview and Major Issues by Susanna Fein John Audelay: Life Records and Heaven's Ladder by Michael J. Bennett The Vatic Penitent: John Audelay's Self-Representation by Robert J. Meyer-Lee John Audelay and John Mirk: Comparisons and Contrasts by Susan Powell The Make-Up of John Audelay's Counsel of Conscience by Oliver Pickering Audelay's Marcolf and Solomon and the Langlandian Tradition by Derek Pearsall Langland and Audelay by Richard Firth Green "Choose yourselves whither to go": John Audelay's Vision of Saint Paul by Robert Easting John Audelay and the Bridgettines by Martha W. Driver Audelay's Carol Collection by Julia Boffey "Wo and werres ... rest and pese": John Audelay's Politics of Peace by John C. Hirsh The Alliterative Three Dead Kings in John Audelay's MS Douce 302 by Eric Gerald Stanley Death and the Colophon in the Audelay Manuscript by Susanna Fein Works Cited Contributors Index of Items, Sequences, and Sections in the Audelay Index of Manuscripts General Index