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  1. The texts and contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud misc. 108
    the shaping of English vernacular narrative
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Brill, Boston

    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... more

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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

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1283120356; 9789004192065; 9781283120357
    Series: Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; v. 6
    Subjects: English literature; Manuscripts, English (Middle); English literature
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xxi, 328 p., [12] p. of plates), ill
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; List of Authors; Introduction: Reading Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 as a "Whole Book"; Part One The Manuscript and its Provenance; Chapter One Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108: Contents, Construction, and Circulation; Chapter Two Talk in the Camps: On the Dating of the South English Legendary, Havelok the Dane, and King Horn in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108; Chapter Three "Very Like a Whale"?: Physical Features and the "Whole Book" in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108

    Chapter Four "Her Y Spelle": The Evocation of Minstrel Performance in a Hagiographical ContextChapter Five Miscellaneous Masculinities and a Possible Fifteenth-Century Owner of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108; Part Two The Manuscript and its Texts; Chapter Six A Text for Its Time: The Sanctorale of the Early South English Legendary; Chapter Seven The Audience and Function of the Apocryphal Infancy of Jesus Christ in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108

    Chapter Eight The Eschatological Cluster-Sayings of St. Bernard, Vision of St. Paul, and Dispute Between the Body and the Soul-in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108Chapter Nine Genre, Bodies, and Power in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108: King Horn, Havelok, and the South English Legendary; Chapter Ten The Early South English Legendary and Difference: Race, Place, Language, and Belief; Chapter Eleven The Magic of Englishness in St. Kenelm and Havelok the Dane

    Chapter Twelve "holie mannes liues": England and its Saints in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108's King Horn and South English LegendaryChapter Thirteen Somer Soneday: Kingship, Sainthood, and Fortune in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108; Epilogue: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 and Other English Manuscripts; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts; General Index; Figures