This is a new critical edition of the most widely dispersed and popular Middle English alliterative poems apart from Piers Plowman . It contains a new critical text, based upon all the surviving manuscripts. There is full discussion of the textual relations, and the editorial methods best suited to presenting a text extant in many copies. There are full manuscript descriptions with discussions of sources and possible authorship.
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This is a new critical edition of the most widely dispersed and popular Middle English alliterative poems apart from Piers Plowman . It contains a new critical text, based upon all the surviving manuscripts. There is full discussion of the textual relations, and the editorial methods best suited to presenting a text extant in many copies. There are full manuscript descriptions with discussions of sources and possible authorship.
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New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 324 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Line drawings, black & white. Early English Text Society Original, 320.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 6x9. 224 page hardcover with 2 illustrations. Early English Text Society O.S.320. Introduction; Text; Appendices and Glossary. Dust jacket is bright, complete and clean. Full brown cloth exterior with title on front cover and spine in gold. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0197223230. Very light creasing/edgewear along top edge of DJ else Fine.; Early English Text Society No. 320; 324 pages; The historical romance of The Siege of Jerusalem was the most widely dispersed and popular Middle English alliterative poem in the medieval period apart from Piers Plowman. It was previously edited for the Society by Eugen Kölbing and Mabel Day (O. S. 188 (1932). This new edition offers a critical text based upon all the surviving manuscripts, some unavailable to Kölbing and Day. All extant manuscripts are fully described, and the editors discuss the sources and authorship, as well as the editorial methods best suited for presenting this text, which survives in many copies.
