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Facsimile reprint. Previously published: London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
The Scale of Perfection is the major work of Walter Hilton, one of the best known English mystical writers of the late fourteenth century. The text circulated widely in England before becoming a spiritual classic. This is the first authoritative edition of Book II, based on detailed study of all surviving manuscripts and early printed books.
This new critical edition of Middle English alliterative poems contains a new critical text, based upon all the surviving manuscripts. There is full discussion of the textual relations, and the editorial methods best suited to presenting a text extant in many copies.
Containing part of the description of Egypt and based on examination of the manuscripts of the Middle English text and its French source, this collection of travellers' tales offers details of the author's indirect reliance on Marco Polo for much of his Asian relation.
An edition of a fifteenth-century translation of a Latin vision of purgatory and paradise experienced in 1196 by Edmund, monk of Eynsham. The translation is presented with the Latin text in parallel. This edition also includes a full discussion of the historical context and the translation.
An edition of two unprinted Wycliffite texts, together with parallel text version of the first, composed between c. 1400-1414. This volume also includes a full discussion of the historical context and authorship.
The fullest English version of Hue de Rotelande's twelfth-century Anglo-Norman romance, Ipomedon, this is the first English edition, with full comparison of the different versions of this popular story.
Twenty-six Lives of Saints, mainly from the British Isles, or with British connections. Almost all previously unpublished, the Lives were added as supplementary material to the Gilte Legende deriving from the enormously influential Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine.
Thomas Hoccleve's `Series', written c.1420 was edited for EETS in 1892. This is a new edition of the first two sections and glosses the poems more fully than before. The introduction presents new findings about Hoccleve, whose poems have attracted much attention in recent years.
There is much interest in the "mouvance" of a medieval text, the way different manuscripts reflect its evolution to meet changing needs. "Ancrene Riwle" (Ancrene Wisse), composed in the 13th century began as a guide for anchoresses, but served as a guide to spirituality down the Reformation.
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