Middle English religious prose
By: [compiled by] N. F. Blake.
Series: York medieval texts
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Evanston
Language: eng; enm
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Christian literature, English (Middle); Religious thought -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Sources; English prose literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500
Description: This collection of texts is designed to show the continuity and at the same time the diversity of work by English writers in the religious prose tradition during the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. The aim of the edition has been to provide the student with a selection of complete texts representative of the Middle English period as a whole, and the criticial introduction points to the literary excellence of much of the prose work of the period, suggesting that it may have been undervalued by critics in the past.
Table of contents: title: Lambeth sermon on Sunday.; title: Holy virginity.; title: The wooing of our Lord.; title: John Gaytryge's sermon.; title: The abbey of the Holy Ghost.; title: The life of Adam and Eve.; title: Epistle of discretion of stirrings.; title: The art of dieing.; title: The perversion of the works of mercy.; title: The golden legend.; title: Remedies against the seven deadly sins.; title: Select bibliography (p. 28-29)