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Hanna, Ralph & David Lawton (Ed. )

THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Early English Text Society, 2003

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Year of publication
2003
Author
Hanna, Ralph & David Lawton (Ed. )
Publishers
Early English Text Society
Keyword
Middle English Poetry & Poets Judaica EETS Early English Text, Society
Cover description
Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Binding description
Hardcover ISBN 0197223230

Description

Very light creasing/edgewear along top edge of DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 320; 324 pages; The historical romance of The Siege of Jerusalem was the most widely dispersed and popular Middle English alliterative poem in the medieval period apart from Piers Plowman. It was previously edited for the Society by Eugen Kцlbing and Mabel Day (O. S. 188 (1932). This new edition offers a critical text based upon all the surviving manuscripts, some unavailable to Kцlbing and Day. All extant manuscripts are fully described, and the editors discuss the sources and authorship, as well as the editorial methods best suited for presenting this text, which survives in many copies.