The Middle English Bible : : A Reassessment / / Henry Ansgar Kelly.
In the last quarter of the fourteenth century, the complete Old and New Testaments were translated from Latin into English, first very literally, and then revised into a more fluent, less Latinate style. This outstanding achievement, the Middle English Bible, is known by most modern scholars as the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. A History of Judgments on the Middle English Bible
- Chapter 2. Five and Twenty Books as ‘‘Official’’ Prologue, or Not
- Chapter 3. The Bible at Oxford
- Chapter 4. Oxford Doctors, Archbishop Arundel, and Dives and Pauper on the Advisability of Scripture in English
- Chapter 5. The Provincial Constitutions of 1407
- Chapter 6. Treatment of the English Bible in the Fifteenth Century
- Chapter 7. The End of the Story: Richard Hunne and Thomas More
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index