Three alliterative saints' hymns : late Middle English stanzaic poems / edited by Ruth Kennedy.

Lincoln Thornton manuscript.

Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Published for the Early Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2003.

cix, 120 p. : ill. ; 22 cm

Early English Text Society O.S. ; no. 321

"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." -- [p. 2] Book Cover.

"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)" -- Title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; no. 321.

Great Britain -- England -- Oxford.

PR1119 .A2 no.321