William Touris OFM, The Contemplacioun of Synnaris
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-25696-5 (ISBN)
The Contemplacioun of Synnaris, by the Observant Franciscan William Touris, written c.1494 and evidently intended for King James IV of Scotland, is a significant and much copied work of Older Scots, although the earliest surviving witness is the English print by Wynkyn de Worde (1499).
The Contemplacioun was the very first work of Older Scots literature to be translated and to be printed. The poem’s seven sections comprise a course of meditations for Holy Week. Richard Fox, bishop of Durham, commissioned the English print, in which the stanzas were preceded by Latin sententiae, biblical, medieval and ancient. The work retained sufficient interest to re-emerge in separate versions in both Scotland (1568) and England (1578), drastically revised for Protestant readers.
Alasdair A. MacDonald Ph.D. (1978, University of Edinburgh) is emeritus professor of English Language and Literature of the Middle Ages, University of Groningen. He has published widely on late-medieval and early modern literature. J. Craig McDonald, Ph.D. (1981, University of York) is emeritus professor of English at King University, Tennessee. He has published on Robert Henryson and John Ireland’s Meroure of Wyssdome.
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Editing the Text
2 Origins and Contexts
3 The CS as Literature
4 1499—The Latin catenae
5 1578—A Dyall of Dayly Contemplacion
Bibliography
Texts
Treatment of Texts
1 Scots
2 Latin
3 Translations of Sententiae
Prologue (1499)
Poem and Catenae
Textual Notes: Poem
1 Textual Notes Pertaining to the Scottish Manuscripts
2 Textual Notes Pertaining to the 1499 English Print
Emendations: Sententiae
Commentary, Sources, Glossary
Commentary: Poem
Sources: Sententiae
Glossary
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 27.05.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions / Texts and Sources ; 232/12 |
Verlagsort | Leiden |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 900 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 90-04-25696-2 / 9004256962 |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-25696-5 / 9789004256965 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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