The idea of the vernacular : an anthology of Middle English literary theory, 1280-1520 / edited by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne ... [et al.]. ; with contributions from participants in the Cardiff conferences on Medieval translation, Ian R. Johnson ... [et al.] ; and with the assistance of Cynthea Masson and Patricia Sunderland.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-492) and index.
Contents:
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne. Authorizing Text and Writer -- Robert Mannyng, Chronicle: Prologue -- John Barbour, The Bruce: Prologue -- Geoffrey Chaucer, Complaint of Venus: Envoi -- Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love: Prologue (Extract) -- John Walton, Translation of Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy: Prefacio Translatoris -- Thomas Hoccleve, The Complaint: Prologue and Extract -- John Lydgate, Troy Book: Prologue (Extract) -- John Metham, Amoryus and Cleopes: Prologue and Ending -- George Ashby, Active Policy of a Prince: Prologue -- Guy de Chauliac, Cyrurgie: Prologue (Extract) -- Osbern Bokenham, Legendys of Hooly Wummen: Prologus -- Speculum Devotorum (Myrowre to Devout Peple): Prefacyon (Extract) -- Julian of Norwich, A Revelation of Love (Short Text): Prologue and Chapter 6 -- Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe: Two Prologues -- The General Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible: Chapter 12 (Extract) -- Reginald Pecock, Prologue to the Donet and The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy (Extracts) -- Addressing and Positioning the Audience -- Northern Homily Cycle: Prologue -- John Trevisa, Dialogue Between the Lord and the Clerk on Translation (Extract) and Epistle to Thomas, Lord Berkeley, on the Translation of Higden's Polychronicon -- Thomas Norton, Ordinal of Alchemy: Probemium -- On Translating the Bible into English (Extract) -- The Holi Prophete David Seith (Three Extracts) -- The Knowing of Woman's Kind in Childing: Translator's Prologue -- John Capgrave, Life of St. Gilbert: Prologue -- Bishop Fox, The Rule of Seynt Benet: Prefatory Letter -- The Amesbury Letter: Prologue -- William Caxton, Translation of Christine de Pizan's Book of Fayttes of Armes and of Chyvalrye: Prologue -- John Gower, Confessio Amantis: Prologue, Two Versions (Extracts) -- Knyghthode and Bataile: Proem -- The Nightingale: Prose Introduction and Proem -- The Croxton Play of the Sacrament: Banns -- South English Legendary: Prologue -- William Caxton, Translation of Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry, Book of the Knight of the Tower: Prologue -- Spektakle of Luf: Prologue -- Models and Images of the Reading Process -- A Talking of the Love of God: Prologue -- Pseudo-Augustinian Soliloquies: Prologue and Digression -- The Cloud of Unknowing: Prologue -- Julian of Norwich, A Revelation of Love (Long Text): Explicit -- The Orchard of Syon: Prologue -- Pore Caityf: Prologue -- The Prick of Conscience: Prologue (Extract) -- Richard Rolle, The English Psalter: Prologue -- Dives and Pauper: Part One, Chapters 1-3 (Extract) -- Nicholas Love, The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ: Prologue (Extract) -- Sermon of Dead Men: Peroration -- The Mirror of Our Lady: Three Prologues -- The Wars of Alexander: Opening -- Cursor Mundi: Prologue (Extract) -- John Skelton, Translation of Poggio Bracciolini, Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus: Prologue (Extract) -- Gavin Douglas, Eneados: Book V, Prologue -- William Caxton, Reynard the Fox: Prologue -- Robert Henryson, Fables: Prologue -- William Langland, Piers Plowman: C Text, Passus XV (Extract) -- Mechtild of Hackeborn, The Book of Ghostly Grace: Epilogue (Extract) -- Eleanor Hull, A Commentary on the Penitential Psalms: Psalm 50 (Selections) -- Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe: Book I, Chapter 58-59 (Extract) -- King James I of Scotland, The Kingis Quair: Opening -- Brian Anslay, Translation of Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies: Chapter 1, with Dedicatory Verses by Henry Pepwell -- Five Essays -- The Notion of Vernacular Theory / Ruth Evans -- The Politics of Middle English Writing / Nicholas Watson -- Authors, Scribes, Patrons, and Books / Andrew Taylor -- Historicizing Postcolonial Criticism: Cultural Difference and the Vernacular / Ruth Evans -- An Afterword on the Prologue / Ruth Evans -- Alternative Arrangements of the Excerpts -- Glossary: The Language of Middle English Literary Theory -- Middle English Terms -- Select Latin Terms -- Jocelyn Wogan-Browne.
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