The Middle English Weye of Paradys and the Middle French Voie de Paradis : : A Parallel-Text Edition / / F.N.M. Diekstra.

• Superior document: European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Diekstra, F.N.M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1991.; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Language: English
• Series: European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000.; Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 pages) :; illustrations.

The late Middle English Weye of Paradys and its French source La Voie de Paradis use the theme of the allegorical journey to Paradise. Essentially they are popular guides to confession, adaptations for the layman of more specialized works in Latin such as Raymond of Pennaforte's Summa de Poenitentia . This edition presents critical texts of both The Weye of Paradys and La Voie de Paradis and analyzes the relations of the English text with its immediate (French) and distant (Latin) sources. This work makes the English and French texts available in print for the first time and places them in the wider field of popular penitential literature.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Sigla and Abbreviations / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Preface / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Facsimiles / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Chapter One The Manuscripts and the Establishment of the Texts / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Chapter Two The Devotional and Literary Backgrounds / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Chapter Three The Language of the Weye of Paradys and la Voie de Paradis / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Structural Outline of the Contents of la Voie de Paradis and the Weye of Paradys / F.N.M. Diekstra -- La Voie de Paradis / F.N.M. Diekstra -- The Weye of Paradys / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Textual Notes and Variant Readings of la Voie de Paradis / F.N.M. Diekstra -- List of Rejected Readings of la Voie de Paradis / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Textual Notes to the Weye of Paradys / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Commentary to the Voie de Paradis and the Weye of Paradys / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Glossary to la Voie de Paradis / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Glossary to the Weye of Paradys / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Bibliography / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Appendices / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Index to Introduction and Commentary / F.N.M. Diekstra -- Index to Biblical and Apocryphal Quotations / F.N.M. Diekstra.