Research Catalog

Title

The revelation of the Monk of Eynsham / edited by Robert Easting.

Author

Adam, of Eynsham, active 1196-1232.

Publication

Oxford : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Easting, Robert.
• Early English Text Society.

Description

c, 277 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

This is a late-15th-century translation of the late-12th-century 'Visio Monachi de Eynsham'. It recounts a vision of purgatory and paradise, peopled by contemporary figures such as King Henry II, experienced by the author's brother at the monastery of Eynsham in 1196.

Series Statement

Early English Text Society (Series) ; no. 318

Uniform Title

• Visio monachi de Eynsham. English (Middle English)
• Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; no. 318.

Alternative Title

Visio monachi de Eynsham.

Subject

• Adam, of Eynsham, fl. 1196-1232
• Adam, of Eynsham, active 1196-1232
• Private revelations
• Purgatory
• Paradise
• Visio monachi Eynshamensis

Note

• New Zealand editor.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-277) and index.

Language (note)

• Latin text with parallel Middle English translation.

Contents

The Revelation of the Monk of Eynsham and the Visio monachi de Eynsham -- The Latin source: Visio monachi de Eynsham -- Manuscripts of the Visio -- Other versions and accounts -- Previous editions of the Visio -- Eynsham/Evesham -- Present edition of the Visio: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 66 (SC 3454) -- The visionary, and the author of the Visio -- The Middle English translation: The Revelation of the Monk of Eynsham -- The printed copies -- William de Machlinia -- Arber's reprint of the Revelation -- Modernized versions of Arber's reprint -- Language of the Revelation -- The Revelation as translation -- Edmund's vision of the other world -- Chronology -- Events surrounding the vision -- The vision -- Purgatory -- Paradise -- Notes on the presentation of the texts.

ISBN

• 0197223214
• 9780197223215

LCCN

2003544505

OCLC

• ocm50494716
• 50494716
• SCSB-1278091

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library