Description
Book SynopsisThis edition, the first since 1878, offers Middle English texts accompanied by detailed notes contextualizing the poems within an apocryphal tradition and full glossary.
Trade ReviewThis welcome volume offers accessible texts and comprehensive notes on two medieval English versions of the legendary Lives of Adam and Eve. An admirable, authoritative contribution to scholarship on the apocryphal tradition. * Medium Ævum Vol LXXII *
Two of the most interesting Middle English poems on these subjects… are here presented in an edition that meets the usual high standards of the Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies series. * Speculum *
…In making the texts available in a handsome edition, and in documenting the Latin source material so thoroughly, Murdoch and Tasioulas are to be commended. * Speculum *
… a well informed and carefully presented volume containing editions of the only two surviving Middle English texts in verse dealing with apocryphal lives of Adam and Eve … This volume serves to rescue two highly interesting vernacular texts … These two texts are well served by their modern editors, and the edition will probably be in use for as many generations as its predecessor. * Anglia Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie, Band 122 , Heft 3 *
Tout en rendant service aux specialistes de la literature anglaise medievale, ce petit en volume economique, facilement accessible, merite le success aupres de etudiants. * Comptes Rendus - Le Moyen ge. CXI *
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- • The texts and their manuscripts
- • Dates and dialects
- • Metre
- • Sources and literary relationships
- • Bibliography
- THE AUCHINLECK 'LIFE OF ADAM'
- THE 'CANTICUM DE CREATIONE'
- Notes on the Poems
- Glossary
- Index of Persons and Places
