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Poems from BL MS Harley 913: 'The Kildare Manuscript' (Early English Text Society Original Series)
Thor Turville-Petre
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Description for Poems from BL MS Harley 913: 'The Kildare Manuscript' (Early English Text Society Original Series)
Hardcover. British Library MS Harley 913, known as the 'Kildare Manuscript', contains the earliest examples of Anglo-Irish writing. It includes numerous well-known poems and gives vivid insights into the lives of Anglo-Irish Franciscans at a time of unrest between native Irish and English settlers. Editor(s): Turville-Petre, Thorlac. Series: Early English Text Society Original Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 black-and-white halftone. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3H; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 27. Weight in Grams: 444.
British Library MS Harley 913 is known as the 'Kildare Manuscript' from the authorship of one of the poems by the Franciscan, Friar Michael of Kildare. The collection was written in the 1330s, in Ireland, perhaps in Waterford. It is chiefly known for two poems in particular, often anthologised, but now presented in their literary and cultural context: 'The Land of Cockaygne,' a fantasy of a culinary and sexual earthly paradise, and 'Lollai, lollai, litel child', a lullaby warning the baby of what is to come in later life. The manuscript contains 17 English poems, 12 of which were probably ... Read more
British Library MS Harley 913 is known as the 'Kildare Manuscript' from the authorship of one of the poems by the Franciscan, Friar Michael of Kildare. The collection was written in the 1330s, in Ireland, perhaps in Waterford. It is chiefly known for two poems in particular, often anthologised, but now presented in their literary and cultural context: 'The Land of Cockaygne,' a fantasy of a culinary and sexual earthly paradise, and 'Lollai, lollai, litel child', a lullaby warning the baby of what is to come in later life. The manuscript contains 17 English poems, 12 of which were probably ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Early English Text Society
Condition
New
Series
Early English Text Society Original Series
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198739166
SKU
V9780198739166
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Ref
99-3
About Thor Turville-Petre
Thorlac Turville-Petre is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham, where he taught Medieval English literature for forty years. His many writings have focussed on alliterative poetry, editorial theory and practice, manuscript history, and national identity in medieval England and Ireland.
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