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Ancrene Wisse: Volume 1: A corrected edition of the text in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 402, with variants from other manuscripts

edited by Bella Millett

The early thirteenth century-guide for women recluses, Ancrene Wisse, is not only the major surviving work of early Middle English prose, and one which was influential throughout the medieval period; it was an important document in the history of European pastoral literature. This edition is the first to draw upon the evidence of all surviving manuscripts, using a corrected version of the Corpus text as a 'point of entry' to the text's history, as it was revised and adapted by its author and successors for the needs of changing audiences. Vol. I contains the text and full critical apparatus. 254p (Early English Text Society, by Oxford UP 2005)

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