The Middle English 'Mirror': Sermons from Advent to Sexagesima

By Thomas Duncan and Margaret Connolly

The ME Mirror, a fourteenth-century prose translation of the thirteenth-century AN Miroir by Robert de Gretham, is a text of cultural and linguistic value. As a cycle of sermons addressed to a lay audience, it offers extensive material for the study of popular preaching in fourteenth-century England. Four of the six surviving manuscripts exemplify that variety of fourteenth-century London language designated "Type II" by M. L. Samuels. Only brief, unedited extracts or quotations from the Mirror have hitherto appeared in print; a full critical edition will not appear for many years. This edition, based on MS Hunterian 250, Glasgow University Library, one of the "Type II" manuscripts, aims to present a sizeable sample of the Mirror including the Prologue and a representative selection of sermons with the Anglo-Norman source text given in parallel.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3825315371
• ISBN13: 9783825315375
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
• Length: 190 Pages