Research Catalog

Title

Richard Morris's Prick of conscience : a corrected and amplified reading text / prepared by Ralph Hanna and Sarah Wood.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hanna, Ralph
• Wood, Sarah Joy, 1980-
• Morris, Richard, 1833-1894

Description

lxxxv, 413 pages : 1 facsimile; 23 cm.

Summary

"This mid fourteenth-century poem, a discussion of the 'contempt of the world' and the 'Four Last Things', was one of the most popular Middle English texts in its time, as indicated by the large number of extant copies, and illustrations of it in the windows of All Saints, North Street, in York. It was a widely influential compendium of religious instruction, originating in Yorkshire, but more widely disseminated, and thus representing this important regional culture, as well as its absorption into a nationwide religious culture. The only edition, by Richard Morris (1863), is now generally unavailable outside research libraries. The present edition revises Morris's text extensively and offers full modern annotation, including extensive discussion of the poem's sources. Morris's text, although based on an exceptionally good manuscript copy, has been fully collated with the principal early manuscripts; this information is presented in a separate textual commentary. There is an introduction presenting the poem in its context and a Glossary."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Early English Text Society ; O.S. 342

Uniform Title

• Prick of conscience.
• Early English Text Society (Series) ; no. 342.

Subject

• Morris, Richard, 1833-1894
• Prick of conscience
• Christian life > Early works to 1800
• Christian poetry, English (Middle) > History and criticism
• Edition

Genre/Form

Christian poetry, English (Middle)

Note

• This new edition of the Middle English poem Prick of conscience draws on the only previous printed edition, which was published by Richard Morris in 1863.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages lxxv-lxxxv) and indexes.

Language (note)

• Text of Prick of conscience in Middle English (with some passages in Latin); introduction and notes in English.

Contents

The poem and Morris's edition -- The manuscripts used here -- Authorship and the poet's dialect -- The poet's verse -- The poet's sources -- The aims and presentation of this edition -- Bibliography.

Call Number

JFD 14-2092

ISBN

• 9780199680993 (hbk.)
• 019968099X (hbk.)

OCLC

826658737

Title

Richard Morris's Prick of conscience : a corrected and amplified reading text / prepared by Ralph Hanna and Sarah Wood.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Early English Text Society ; O.S. 342

Early English Text Society (Series) ; no. 342.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages lxxv-lxxxv) and indexes.

Language

Text of Prick of conscience in Middle English (with some passages in Latin); introduction and notes in English.

Added Author

Hanna, Ralph, editor.

Wood, Sarah Joy, 1980- editor.

Morris, Richard, 1833-1894, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 14-2092