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Medieval English Prose for Women: Selections from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse

Medieval English Prose for Women: Selections from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse

Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn
Millett, Bella

Paperback

Series: Clarendon Paperbacks

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0198119976
ISBN13: 9780198119975
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Nov 19 1992
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.51
Language: English
The Ancrene Wisse, a guide for female recluses in the West Midlands in the early thirteenth century, and the closely related works of the Katherine Group, offer vivid and fascinating insights into the religious life of the time. The difficulty of the language however, which skillfully blends Latin and native English stylistic traditions, has made the documents largely inaccessible to all but experts in Middle English. This edition presents the works in a new and readable critical text that includes interspersed translations, notes, a select glossary, and a general introduction, making this volume highly useful to undergraduates and generalists with limited knowledge of Middle English.

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