With their meticulous and consistent manner of editing the text, Johannesson and Cooper have made an edition of the Ormulum that will be an essential addition to the library of anyone studying the transitional period from Old to Middle English, and the state of the English language in the twelfth century.

Amos van Baalen, SELIM Journal

The Ormulum consists of metrical English sermons, composed and phonetically written by a late twelfth-century priest, Orm, in the East Midlands, and surviving in his autograph manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 1, and now newly edited from a fresh transcription, The text has previously only been available for study in Holt and White's edition, now over 140 years old. The editors have been able to recover all known missing parts of the manuscript from Jan van Vliet's seventeenth-century copy (London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 783), and place them in context. These two manuscripts have now been combined in a single edition, and the result gives a new and fuller picture of the Ormulum than ever before. The Ormulum is the sole witness to a unique transitional dialect, long recognized for its importance in understanding the developments between Old and Middle English. It provides essential information for linguists, philologists, students of literature, and historians of religion. New fonts have been specially designed to represent Orm's elaborate spellings and punctuation. The edition represents Nils-Lennart Johannesson's work on this text over many years before his death in 2018, and now brought to fruition by his colleague, Andrew Cooper.
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The first edition since 1878 of a primary twelfth-century text, the only example of a key transitional dialect between Old and Middle English. The first re-edition of this important work since 1878.
Abbreviations Editorial Note The Ormulum Prolegomena Latin Texts Homilies 1: Homily I/II 2: Homily III/IV 3: Homily V 4: Homily VI 5: Homily VII/VIII 6: Homily IX 7: Homily X 8: Homily XI/XII Homily XIII 9: Homily XIV 10: Homily XV 11: Homily XVI/XVII 12: Homily XVIII 13: Homily XIX 14: Homily XXI 15: Homily XXII 16: Homily XXIII 17: Homily XIV 18: Homily XV/XVI 19: Homily XVII/XVIII 20: Homily XXIX 21: Homily XXX/XXI 22: Homily XXII Appendix Glossary
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Nils-Lennart Johannesson, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Stockholm. Director of the Ormulum project, from 1993 until his death in 2019. Dr Andrew Cooper, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Stockholm. Director of the Ormulum project from 2020.
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First edition since 1878 of a major English text An essential text for understanding the transition between Old and Middle English, revealed in a key transitional dialect Newly transcribed, a completely new edition, includes newly recovered text, giving a fuller picture of the Ormulum than ever before Special fonts are used to create an accurate description of all orthographical features Enables highly accurate further research by students of literature, language, and the history of religion Includes a complete glossary, with etymological information
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780192890436
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1148 gr
Høyde
222 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
60 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Kombinasjonsprodukt
Antall sider
600

Biografisk notat

Nils-Lennart Johannesson, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Stockholm. Director of the Ormulum project, from 1993 until his death in 2019. Dr Andrew Cooper, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Stockholm. Director of the Ormulum project from 2020.