The Siege of Jerusalem

This is a new critical edition of the most widely dispersed and popular Middle English alliterative poems apart from Piers Plowman. It 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. There are full manuscript descriptions with discussions of sources and possible authorship.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197223230
• ISBN13: 9780197223239
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Early English Text Society
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.7"