Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
1: Manuscript
2: Language and Dialect
3: Historical Context
4: The Franciscans in Ireland
5: Literary Context
6: Previous Editions
7: Treatment of the Text
THE TEXTS OF BL MS HARLEY 913
COMMENTARIES ON EDITED TEXTS
APPENDIX: Texts from BL MS Lansdowne 418
GLOSSARIES

About the Author

Thorlac Turville-Petre is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham, where he taught Medieval English literature for forty years. His many writings have focussed on alliterative poetry, editorial theory and practice, manuscript history, and national identity in medieval England and Ireland.