The Middle English Weye of Paradys and the Middle French Voie de Paradis.

A Parallel-Text Edition
Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-90-04-09118-4
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 544 Seiten, Gewicht: 1130 g

Reihe: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts

The late Middle English Weye of Paradys and its French source La Voie de Paradis use the theme of the allegorical journey to Paradise. Essentially they are popular guides to confession, adaptations for the layman of more specialized works in Latin such as Raymond of Pennaforte's Summa de Poenitentia.
This edition presents critical texts of both The Weye of Paradys and La Voie de Paradis and analyzes the relations of the English text with its immediate (French) and distant (Latin) sources.
This work makes the English and French texts available in print for the first time and places them in the wider field of popular penitential literature.

Zielgruppe

Specialists in medieval English and medieval French literature, history of medieval spirituality, medieval philology and Church history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Über Autor(innen)

F.N.M. Diekstra is Professor of Middle English at the University of Nijmegen. His publications include A Dialogue between Reason and Adversity: A late Middle English Version of Petrarch's De Remediis (1968) and the fascicle on the romances in the Typologie des Sources du Moyen Age Occidental (co-editor, 1975). He has also published articles on Chaucer and other aspects of medieval English literature.