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Ancrene Wisse

Parts Six and Seven

Geoffrey Shepherd editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Liverpool University Press

Published:1st Jan '85

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An edition of parts six and seven of the Middle English treatise 'Ancrene Wisse' ('Guide for Anchorites'), composed between 1225 and 1240. This scholarly edition includes an introduction, notes, glossary and index of proper names.

... a study which will help students to relate the treatise to a tradition and to evaluate its achievement. Complete with an interesting and lively set of notes which bring real illumination to the text. * Modern Philology *

ISBN: 9780859892568

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192 pages