The Seven Sages of Rome: (Midland Version)

Whitelock, Jill (edited by)

ISBN 10: 0197223273 / ISBN 13: 9780197223277

Published by Published for The Early English Text Society by the Oxford Unviersity Press, Oxford, 2005

About this Item

Attractively bound in brown cloth with gilt titles and device. 215 x 140 mm. lxxx, 184 pp + b&w frontispiece. Until now, the only edition pf the Midland Version has been that of Thomas Wright for the Percy Society in 1845. This new edition presents an independent redactor's reworking of the Old French source with many original features not found in the other English translations, a corrected text and full introduction and commentary. Edited from Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.1.17. A clean, bright copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Seven Sages of Rome: (Midland Version)
• Publisher: Published for The Early English Text Society by the Oxford Unviersity Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197223273
• ISBN 13: 9780197223277
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry, fiction, literature, criticism
  • Language and Linguistics

About this title

Synopsis

This is a new edition of an independent Middle English version of an enormously popular story collection, found in almost all European languages. This version was previously edited by Thomas Wright in 1845, but is not otherwise available. The new edition presents a corrected text with full introduction and commentary. The Seven Sages is the first framed story in English, and was known to Chaucer and Gower, among others.

About the Author

Jill Whitelock is at Cambridge University Library.