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Facsimile reprint. Previously published: London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.

The Scale of Perfection is the major work of Walter Hilton, one of the best known English mystical writers of the late fourteenth century. The text circulated widely in England before becoming a spiritual classic. This is the first authoritative edition of Book II, based on detailed study of all surviving manuscripts and early printed books.

New edition of the first ever translation of the Old Testament into English.

This is the first modern critical edition of Alexander Barclay's translation of Sallust's Bellum Jugurthinum, a history of the war between the Romans and Jugurtha, King of Numidia. Published in 1522, it was one of the first translations of a classical text into English.

The third and final volume of this first time edition of the first Lollard revision of Richard Rolle's English commentary on the Psalter. This volume contains the texts of Psalms 116-150.

A critical edition of the Old English homilies in Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare MS CXVII, with parallel passages from related manuscripts. The text has a critical apparatus giving the readings of other manuscripts and analogues from other homilies, and there is a commentary.

This mid fourteenth-century poem was one of the most popular Middle English texts in its time. This edition makes it accessible to modern scholars with full annotation, a comprehensive introduction, and detailed commentary.

Provides, for the first time, a full edition of the first Lollard revision of Richard Rolle's English commentary on the Psalter, and gives detailed evidence for the second revision. The edition is based on study of all manuscripts of both revisions, and includes the twelve commentaries on the Canticles which accompanied the Psalter commentary.

Provides, for the first time, a full edition of the first Lollard revision of Richard Rolle's English commentary on the Psalter, and gives detailed evidence for the second revision.

Facsimile reprint. Previously published: London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.

The early thirteenth-century guide for women recluses, Ancrene Wisse is one of the major works of early Middle English prose, and an important document in the history of European pastoral literature. This new edition, based on the full manuscript evidence, sets it in its broader cultural and institutional context. Volume II will be published in 2006.

The fourth and final volume of the series of English versions of Mandeville published by EETS. Represents a unique manuscript version of the text. Offers important insights into the disseminationof this enormously influential and widely-read text. New edition reports the latest discoveries concerning the text and its sources.

This is the first edition of a major work by the translator and hagiographer Osbern Bokenham comprising a complete translation of a collection of Latin saints lives into Middle English.

This volume comprises the first half of "Castleford's Chronicle" - a verse chronicle, written in a Northern English dialect, which recounts the history of Britain from its foundation year to 1327. It is one of the earliest compendia in English of the events of British history as then understood.

This is volume I of the first scholarly edition of the Golden Legend, the largest and most elaborate production of the first printer in English, William Caxton.

A first book in the two volume English translation of a previously unpublished fifteenth-century book of knowledge, originally written in French. The text is number 311 in the EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY ORIGINAL series.

This volume comprises the second half of "Castleford's Chronicle" - a verse chronicle, written in a Northern English dialect, which recounts the history of Britain from its foundation year to 1327. It is one of the earliest compendia in English of the events of British history as then understood.