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Two Revisions of Rolle's English Psalter Commentary and the Related Canticles
Anne . Ed(S): Hudson
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Description for Two Revisions of Rolle's English Psalter Commentary and the Related Canticles
Provides, for the first time, a full edition of the first Lollard revision of Richard Rolle's English commentary on the Psalter, and gives detailed evidence for the second revision. Editor(s): Hudson, Anne. Series: Early English Text Society Original Series. Num Pages: 610 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 50. Weight in Grams: 908.
Richard Rolle, the Yorkshire hermit and scholar (d. 1349) wrote two commentaries on the Psalms, one in Latin and one in English. Some fifty years after he died, his English commentary was revised by a series of Lollard writers, and this redaction was itself subsequently modified by other revisers, having a similar radical outlook. This edition presents for the first time a full edition of the first of the Lollard revision, and gives detailed evidence for the second. It is based on a full study of all manuscripts of both versions, and includes the commentaries on the twelve Canticles which ... Read more
Richard Rolle, the Yorkshire hermit and scholar (d. 1349) wrote two commentaries on the Psalms, one in Latin and one in English. Some fifty years after he died, his English commentary was revised by a series of Lollard writers, and this redaction was itself subsequently modified by other revisers, having a similar radical outlook. This edition presents for the first time a full edition of the first of the Lollard revision, and gives detailed evidence for the second. It is based on a full study of all manuscripts of both versions, and includes the commentaries on the twelve Canticles which ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
610
Condition
New
Series
Early English Text Society Original Series
Number of Pages
610
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199674299
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V9780199674299
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About Anne . Ed(S): Hudson
Anne Hudson is Emeritus Professor of Medieval English at the University of Oxford, and currently the Director of the E.E.T.S
Reviews for Two Revisions of Rolle's English Psalter Commentary and the Related Canticles
Hudson's careful and immensely valuable edition will inspire not only scholars and projects of Wycliffite textual culture and spirituality, but also research on the transmission of Richard Rolle ... the edition now permits us to explore the divergences between Rolle's and the Revisions choices ... I have the privilege to congratulate Anne Hudson on her full-fledged project. I can only ... Read more