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Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford
This new edition with facing-page modern English translation collects together the Old English prologues and epilogues to literary works associated with King Alfred. Cover -- Alfredian Prologues and Epilogues -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements --...
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This new edition with facing-page modern English translation collects together the Old English prologues and epilogues to literary works associated with King Alfred. Cover -- Alfredian Prologues and Epilogues -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- The Influence of Earlier Traditions -- Alfred's Reign and the Vernacular Translation Programme -- The Place of the Prologues and Epilogues in the AuthorshipDebate -- Overview of the Corpus of Alfredian Prologues and Epilogues -- Language -- Early Medieval Reception History -- Editorial Procedure and Conventions -- The Old English Dialogues -- Prose and Verse Prefaces -- Gregorian Preface -- Incipits and Explicits -- Introduction -- The Work and its Contexts -- Manuscripts and Previous Editions -- The Prose Preface to the Dialogues -- The Verse Preface to the Dialogues -- The Gregorian Preface to the Dialogues -- The Incipits and Explicits of the Dialogues -- Note on the Texts -- Texts and Translations -- The Prose Preface to the Dialogues -- The Verse Preface to the Dialogues -- The Gregorian Preface to the Dialogues -- Summary of Book I of the Dialogues -- Book I Explicit -- Book II Incipit -- Summary of Book II of the Dialogues -- Book II Explicit -- Book III Incipit -- Summary of Book III of the Dialogues -- Book III Explicit -- Book IV Incipit -- Summary of Book IV of the Dialogues -- The Old English Pastoral Care -- Prose and Verse Prefaces -- Gregorian Preface and Epilogue -- Verse Epilogue -- Introduction -- The Work and its Contexts -- Manuscripts and Previous Editions -- The Prose Preface to the Pastoral Care -- The Verse Preface to the Pastoral Care -- The Gregorian Preface to the Pastoral Care -- The Gregorian Epilogue to the Pastoral Care -- The Verse Epilogue to the Pastoral Care -- Note on the Texts -- Texts and Translations -- The Prose Preface to the Pastoral Care -- The Verse Preface to the Pastoral Care -- The Gregorian Preface to the Pastoral Care -- Summary of the Pastoral Care.
