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Title The texts and contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, ms. Laud misc. 108 : the shaping of English vernacular narrative / edited by Kimberly K. Bell and Julie Nelson Couch.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 328 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts, 0925-7683 ; v. 6
Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; v. 6.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Introduction: Reading Oxford, Bodleian Library, ms Laud misc. 108 as a "whole book" -- Part one: the manuscript and its provenance -- Part two: the manuscript and its texts.
Summary The late thirteenth-century, monolingual Oxford manuscript, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108, bears singular importance to medieval studies, for it preserves and anthologizes unique versions of several seminal Middle English texts, including "South English Legendary," "Havelok the Dane," and "King Horn" and "Somer Soneday." While critics have traditionally classified these poems by genre, this book returns them to their manuscript context in a comprehensive examination of this vernacular codex. Considering the manuscript as a whole book rather than a.
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Subject Bodleian Library. Manuscript. Laud misc. 108.
Manuscript (Bodleian Library)
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Criticism, Textual.
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Manuscripts.
English literature -- Middle English -- Manuscripts.
English literature -- Middle English.
Manuscripts, English (Middle)
Manuscripts, English (Middle)
Chronological Term 1100 - 1500
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Bell, Kimberly K.
Couch, Julie Nelson.
Other Form: Print version: Texts and contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, ms. Laud misc. 108. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004192065 (DLC) 2010043091 (OCoLC)671491742
ISBN 9789004192249 (electronic book)
9004192247 (electronic book)
9789004192065
9004192069