The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers: A Middle English Version by Stephen Scrope.

AbstractDeparting from the observation that the Middle English romance of Sir Perceval of Galles quotes from Genesis at two crucial moments, this study provides a coherent reading of the text, explaining some of its idiosyncrasies and triangulating it with the versions of Chrétien de Troyes and Wolfram von Eschenbach. What distinguishes the Middle English version from the continental texts are its purposeful absences, i. e. that which the author chooses to abbreviate or leave out altogether. The result is the story of a prelapsarian creature who stumbles through an Edenic landscape where time and mortality have been suspended and individual culpability does not exist. Sir Perceval’s non-existent biblical knowledge, blocked by his mother and ultimately brought to its end by a literal fall from his horse, leaves him invincible, ungendered and immortal. It also serves to explain his unapologetic violence as well as his complete lack of sexual desire. This bold experiment cannot last – Sir Perceval does eventually discover knighthood, masculinity and mortality. Unfortunately, these three are inseparably linked: being a knight, being a man and being dead are one and the same thing in Sir Perceval’s universe.

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Sir Orfeo: A Middle English Version By J.R.R. Tolkien

Tolkien Studies ◽

10.1353/tks.2004.0010 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 85-123 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien ◽

Carl F. Hostetter

Keyword(s):

Middle English ◽

English Version ◽

Sir Orfeo

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Reseña de Edurne Garrido-Anes (2020) A Middle English Version of the Circa Instans, Middle English Texts Series, 59. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, pp. 209. ISBN 978-3-8253-4766-6

Revista de Lengua para Fines Específicos 21 1 ◽

10.20420/rlfe.2021.396 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 189-192

Author(s):

María José Esteve-Ramos

Keyword(s):

Middle English ◽

Medieval England ◽

Natural Consequence ◽

English Version ◽

English Edition ◽

Late Medieval ◽

Cambridge University ◽

University Library ◽

Late Medieval England ◽

Scholarly Attention

Medical and scientific manuscripts have been the interest of scholarly attention in recent decades and as a natural consequence, editions of unstudied material have flourished (Alonso-Almeida, 2014 or Marqués-Aguado, T. et alii, 2008, among others). This book is a Middle English edition of one of the most popular works circulating in the late medieval England, known as Circa Instans. This book presents a revised edition of the text found in CUL MS Es 1.13. ff 1r-91v, housed in the Cambridge University Library.

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Edurne Garrido-Anes (ed.). 2020. A Middle English Version of the Circa Instans. Edited from Cambridge, CUL, MS Ee.1.13. Middle English Texts 59. Heidelberg: Winter, lvi + 212 pp., 2 illustr., € 70.00.

Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie ◽

10.1515/ang-2021-0049 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 139 (3) ◽

pp. 602-605

Author(s):

Claudio Cataldi

Keyword(s):

Middle English ◽

English Version

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The Affix Changes from Middle English to Modern English Found In The Miller's Tale Written by Geoffrey Chaucer and Its Modern English Version

English Language and Literature ◽

10.24036/ell.v8i1.103045 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Egi Putriana ◽

Jufrizal Jufrizal ◽

Fitrawati Fitrawati

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Middle English ◽

Old English ◽

Geoffrey Chaucer ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

English Language ◽

English Version ◽

New Words ◽

History Of ◽

Vowel Change

The history of English language has three periods of time; Old English, Middle English, and Modern English. The linguistic forms in English development are different each period. This research aims to find out one of the changes, that is, the affix changes from Middle English to Modern English form that found in both of The Miller’s Tale Story Middle English and Modern English versions. This research also aims to find out the spelling changes in affixes. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The data, which are the collection of words that have affixes found in The Miller’s Tale, were identified based on the base of the words and its affixes and its were classified based on the type of its functions. Based on data analysis, there are seven affixes in Middle English which have been changed in Modern English form. These changes occur in the deletion of vowel, change of vowel, substitution of the affix, and elimination of the affix. The spelling change also influenced the change in suffixes. Some of the vocabularies change into the new words and some of the words change only in its vowel.

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King Robert of Sicily: A New Manuscript

PMLA ◽

10.2307/460722 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 78 (5) ◽

pp. 453-458

Author(s):

Lillian Herlands Hornstein

Keyword(s):

Fifteenth Century ◽

Middle English ◽

English Version ◽

Almost All

The verse romance King Robert of Sicily (King Roberd of Cisyle) is the Middle English version of a well-known legend about The Proud King Humiliated (Deposed)—an arrogant and boastful king whose throne is taken over by an angel-substitute until the beggared monarch learns proper humility. Told of the Emperor Jovinian in the Latin Gesta Romanorum, the story had also appeared in other contexts in almost all the vernacular languages of Europe before the end of the fifteenth century. The tale must have been especially appealing to the English, to judge from the number of extant manuscripts heretofore known, nine manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This paper calls attention to still another manuscript, folio 2 of BM Additional MS. 34801. It has, strangely enough, never been noticed, although its existence was recorded in a catalogue over sixty years ago.

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