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Record Nr.

UNINA9910138894903321

Autore

Eldredge Laurence M

Titolo

The southern version of Cursor Mundi . Volume 5 lines 21845 - 23898 / / edited by Laurence M. Eldredge and Anne L. Klinck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2000

Ottawa [Ont.] : , : University of Ottawa Press, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

0-7766-1728-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 291 pages)

Collana

Etudes médiévales de l'Université d'Ottawa = Ottawa mediaeval texts and studies

Disciplina

821.2

Soggetti

Christian poetry, English (Middle)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

The medieval poem Cursor Mundi is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the year 1300, the poem was frequently copied in the north before appearing in a southern version in substantially altered form. Although it is a storehouse of popular medieval biblical lore and a fascinating study in the eclectic use of more than a dozen sources, the poem has until now attracted little scholarly attention. This five-part collaborative edition presents the Arundel version of the poem with variants from three others.