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William Touris Ofm, the Contemplacioun of Synnaris: Late-Medieval Advice to a Prince

William Touris Ofm, the Contemplacioun of Synnaris: Late-Medieval Advice to a Prince

MacDonald, Alasdair A.
McDonald, J. Craig

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Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 9004256962
ISBN13: 9789004256965
Publisher: Brill
Published: May 25 2022
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.81
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Contemplacioun of Synnaris, by the Observant Franciscan William Touris, written c.1494 and evidently intended for King James IV of Scotland, is a significant and much copied work of Older Scots, although the earliest surviving witness is the English print by Wynkyn de Worde (1499).
The Contemplacioun was the very first work of Older Scots literature to be translated and to be printed. The poem's seven sections comprise a course of meditations for Holy Week. Richard Fox, bishop of Durham, commissioned the English print, in which the stanzas were preceded by Latin sententiae, biblical, medieval and ancient. The work retained sufficient interest to re-emerge in separate versions in both Scotland (1568) and England (1578), drastically revised for Protestant readers.

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