An edition and English translation of the Speculum Stultorum (The Mirror for Fools), a long Latin beast epic written near the end of the twelfth century by a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury. It is not only a milestone in the history of medieval beast epic, but a rich source of information about contemporary life and events at Canterbury.
An edition and English translation of the Speculum Stultorum (The Mirror for Fools), a long Latin beast epic written near the end of the twelfth century by a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury. It is not only a milestone in the history of medieval beast epic, but a rich source of information about contemporary life and events at Canterbury.
Jill Mann (BA Oxford, PhD Cambridge) was a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and began her teaching career in 1971 at the University of Kent at Canterbury. In 1972 she took up a Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge, where she subsequently became an Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, and finally Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English. In 1999 she moved to an endowed chair at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She retired in 2004. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. She has published extensively on Chaucer and other Middle English authors, on medieval Latin literature, and on medieval French and Italian.
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Preface Sigla Earlier Editions and Translations of the Speculum Stultorum This Edition: Editorial Conventions Headings Translation and Notes INTRODUCTION Text and Context The Poem The Date The Motive The Manuscripts Textual Transmission: The Manuscript Groups Nigel's Metre and Style SPECULUM STULTORUM APPENDICES APPENDIX A: The Interpolation on the Mendicant Friars APPENDIX B: Epistola ad Willelmum in Vienna 3467 APPENDIX C: Borrowings from the Speculum Stultorum in Gower's Vox Clamantis APPENDIX D: England and Sicily MANUSCRIPT DESCRIPTIONS
Preface Sigla Earlier Editions and Translations of the Speculum Stultorum This Edition: Editorial Conventions Headings Translation and Notes INTRODUCTION Text and Context The Poem The Date The Motive The Manuscripts Textual Transmission: The Manuscript Groups Nigel's Metre and Style SPECULUM STULTORUM APPENDICES APPENDIX A: The Interpolation on the Mendicant Friars APPENDIX B: Epistola ad Willelmum in Vienna 3467 APPENDIX C: Borrowings from the Speculum Stultorum in Gower's Vox Clamantis APPENDIX D: England and Sicily MANUSCRIPT DESCRIPTIONS
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