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(Hardback)

By: Elizabeth Solopova

ISBN: 9781851245635
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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This volume provides editions and modern translations of four biblical texts from between 1409 and 1530, together with a substantial introduction explaining their context and the implications of their arguments, and encouraging further exploration of the perceptions of the nature of language that are displayed there.


(Hardback, Critical edition)

By: John Prise

ISBN: 9781851244362
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Sir John Prise (15011555) was an influential lawyer and administrator during the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI and Queen Mary I. This critically edited work puts his 'Historiae Britannicae Defensio' into print for the first time since 1573. The work includes a facing English translation, an extensive introduction and elucidatory notes.


(Hardback)

By: John Leland

ISBN: 9781851243679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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John Leland recorded the contents of English monastic libraries in 1533 before they were dispersed. His booklists are a remarkable testament to medieval and early modern habits of book collecting. This comprehensive, important edition of 'De uiris illustribus' by the worlds leading expert on John Leland includes a new translation.


(Hardback)

By: Henry of Huntingdon

ISBN: 9781851242849
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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This book presents the first English verse translation of Henry of Huntingdon's recently-discovered Anglicanus ortus, opening a new window onto this important English author as well as onto the uses of poetry and the knowledge of medicine in medieval England.


(Hardback)

By: David R. Carlson

ISBN: 9781851242900
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Including the original Latin texts as well as Modern English verse translations, this is a significant new edition of John Gowers historical poems, detailing the 1381 Peasants Revolt and the deposition of Richard II in 1399.


(Hardback)

By: Peter of Cornwall

ISBN: 9781851242542
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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A marvellous resource for scholars interested in the Latin literature of medieval dreams, visionary experience and the eschatological concerns of sin, penance, death, the afterlife, and the judgement of the soul.


(Hardback)

By: William Caxton

ISBN: 9781851242535
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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This critical edition, the first of the entire work, seeks to encourage the study of Caxtons Ovyde, both as an example of the late-medieval mise en prose and as a significant part of Caxtons considerable oeuvre.