Research Catalog

Title

The late Middle English Lucydarye / edited by Stephen Morrison.

Author

Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156

Publication

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, c2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Morrison, Stephen, 1950-

Description

xl, 140 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book offers the reader a textual comparison of the 14th-century French Second Lucidaire and the late Middle English translation Lucydarye. The Lucydarye is a late Middle English manual of popular instruction, largely religious in its orientation, though including lengthy discussions of witchcraft, demonology, and meteorological phenomena. There is a strong interest in pastoral instruction. Set in the form of a dialogue between a magister and his discipulus, it is an over-literal translation of a fourteenth-century French text known as the Second Lucidaire, itself a free adaptation of the Latin Elucidarium, traditionally attributed to Honorius Augustodunensis (Honorius of Autun). The translation is the work of one Andrew Chertsey. The Middle English text, edited here for the first time (from a Wynkyn de Worde print), bears striking similarities to other, popular works of an encyclopaedic nature, notably Sydrak and Bokkus and the Pricke of Conscience. Equally, there are many points in common with the sermon literature of the time. The Lucydarye is printed alongside the French source so as to allow the reader both to appreciate points of obscurity in the text and to observe Chertsey's translation technique. A discussion of the relationship between the Lucydarye and the various versions of the Second Lucidaire throws some light on the complicated textual tradition of the French prints"--

Series Statement

Textes vernaculaires du Moyen Age ; vol. 12

Uniform Title

• Elucidarius. English (Middle English) & French (Old French)
• Textes vernaculaires du Moyen Âge v. 12.

Alternative Title

• Elucidarius.
• Lucydarye

Subject

• Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156
• 600-1500
• Medeltiden
• Theology, Doctrinal > Popular works
• Theology, Doctrinal > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500

Genre/Form

• History
• Popular works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-130) and indexes.

Language (note)

• Text of the Le Lucidaire in Old French followed by parallel Middle English translation (Lucydarye) on facing pages; supportive material in English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9782503540825 (pbk.)
• 2503540821 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 871021516
• SCSB-11159414

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library