RT Book
T1 Ormulum
T2 Early English Text Society. O.S
A2 Johannesson, Nils-Lennart
A2 Cooper, Andrew
LA Middle English
LA Latin
LA English
PP Oxford, United Kingdom
PB published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/187050738X
AB "The great value of this collection of metrical sermons, composed in the late twelfth century by the Augustinian cannon, Orm, has long been recognised by historians of the English language. The author took great care in devising an idiosyncratic system of spelling that would represent as accurately as he could the English of this time and place so that the gospels could be understood. The Ormulium is the sole witness to a unique transitional dialect important for understanding the developments between Old and Middle English, but it also provides essential information for students of literature and historians of religion as well as philologists. This is the fist edition since 1878 of this major English text, now freshly transcribed, and including newly recovered text, giving a fuller picture of the Ormulum than ever before."--Front flap.
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
SN 9780192890436
K1 Bible ; New Testament
K1 1100-1500
K1 English language ; Middle English
K1 Paraphrases
K1 Sermons
K1 Texts