The Pricke of Conscience

An Annotated Edition of the Southern Recension

Jean E. Jost, Hoyt Greeson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7119-2 (ISBN)

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This powerful 7316-line sermon in rhyming couplets dramatically rehearses God's power and man's vulnerability, capturing Man's wretchedness and the world's instability before contemplating Man's journey from death to the anguish of purgatory, hell, or ultimately the joys of heaven.The presentation is informed by sensational descriptions directed to shock, inform, and inspire.

This dramatic early 14th century Middle English sermon rehearses humanity's wretchedness and the world's instability, before contemplating the journey from death to the anguish of purgatory and hell, or ultimately to the joys of heaven. Its 7,316 lines of rhyming couplets present sensational descriptions intended to shock the audience into religious zeal, alongside a biblical exegesis reinforcing the message of salvation and cautioning against its impediments.

Although the Main version of the Pricke of Conscience has thrice been edited from three manuscripts, no version from the Southern Recension group has appeared to date. This edited version of a shorter, tighter Southern manuscript fills the gap. In-line glosses, extensive notes and translated Latin quotations make this fascinating text accessible to modern readers.

Jean E. Jost is an emerita professor of English literature at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, where she taught medieval literature, women’s literature and advanced writing for 27 years.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

General Introduction 1

I. Introduction to the Poem and Manuscript 7

Description of HM 128, Huntington Library, San Marino, California 7

Contents of HM 128 7

Date, Collation, and Hands 7

Foliation 8

Physical Description and Page Arrangement 8

Decoration and Textual Presentation in the Pricke of Conscience, HM 128 8

Versions of the Pricke of Conscience 8

Manuscript Editions 8

Modern and Medieval Editions 9

Provenance of the Pricke of Conscience, HM 128 10

Authorship 10

Dating 10

Language (by Hoyt Greeson) 10

Manuscript Choice 12

Criteria for “Best Text” of Pricke of Conscience Manuscript 12

Rationale 15

Editorial Policy

Spelling, Punctuation, Capitalization, Abbreviations and Division Markers 16

Latin Quotations 16

Critical Apparatus 16

Bibliographies 17

Notes 17

II. Pricke of Conscience

Facsimile of Huntington Manuscript 128 Folio 1 recto 21

Prologue: God’s Power Folio 1r 23

Part I. Man’s Wretchedness Folio 4v 30

Part II. The Instability of the World Folio 10v 42

Part III. Death Folio 18v 58

Part IV. Purgatory Folio 28v 78

Part V. Ten Signs of Doomsday Folio 42v 106

Part VI. The Pains of Hell Folio 69v 160

Part VII. The Joys of Heaven Folio 77v 176

Select Glossary (by Hoyt Greeson) 211

Select Bibliography: Content of HM 128 238

Select Bibliography: Dialect, Sources, and Definitions (by Hoyt Greeson) 240

Index 241

Erscheinungsdatum	08.12.2017
Zusatzinfo	glossary, notes, bibliographies, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	594 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
ISBN-10	1-4766-7119-2 / 1476671192
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7119-2 / 9781476671192
Zustand	Neuware