TY - BOOK ID - 1446001 TI - Three alliterative Saints' hymns: Late Middle English stanzaic poems: The alliterative Katherine Hymn by Richard Spalding (Bodleian Library MS Bodley Rolls 22), The alliterative John Evangelist Hymn (Lincoln Cathedral Library MS 91), The alliterative John Baptist Hymn (British Library Additional MS 39574) PY - 2003 VL - 321 SN - 0197223249 9780197223246 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Poetry KW - Old English literature KW - English poetry KW - Middle English, 1100-1500 KW - History and criticism KW - Christian poetry, English (Middle) KW - Christian saints KW - Christian poetry, English (Middle). KW - Catherine, KW - John, KW - English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism KW - Christian saints - Poetry KW - Catharina v. m. Alexandriae KW - Iohannes ap. ev. KW - Iohannes Baptista KW - Catherine, - of Alexandria, Saint - Poetry KW - John, - the Baptist, Saint - Poetry KW - Catherine, - of Alexandria, Saint KW - John, - the Baptist, Saint UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1446001 AB - "This edition presents the three extant texts of a largely unrecognised genre in Middle English verse: odes to saints written in strong-stress metre in fourteen-line stanzas. These hymns were composed in the North and East Midlands in around 1400. This is the first edition of these linguistically difficult, 'knotty', poems-- for many years they were previously edited separately: in 1907 (re-edited, 1937), 1889 and 1921. The new edition takes account of recent scholarship on the Middle English alliterative verse tradition, and includes full discussion of the three poems' hagiographical and historical context."--Page [2] Book Cover. ER -