Directory of Anonymous Works Resources

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This category contains texts and translations of Middle English works whose author is unknown or uncertain.

Resources in This Category

• Ancrene Wisse

  http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/publication/hasenfratz-ancrene-wisse
  Middle English text. Includes an introduction, marginal glosses, notes, glossary, and bibliography.

• Ancrene Wisse

  http://www.bsswebsite.me.uk/History/AncreneRiwle/AncreneRiwle.html
  Modern English translation. Includes an introduction.

• Castle of Perseverance

  http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/publication/klausner-the-castle-of-perseverance
  Middle English text. Includes an introduction, marginal glosses, notes, and bibliography.

• Castle of Perseverance

  http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~ajohnsto/cascomp.html
  Modern English translation by Alexandra Johnston. Includes an introduction.

• Everyman

  http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/everyman.htm
  Provides links to online texts. Also includes an introduction, essays, articles, and links to additional web resources.

• Everyman

  http://www.astorialand.com/dramageeks/scripts/everyman.pdf
  Modern English translation.

• Four Romances

  http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/publication/salisbury-four-romances-of-england
  Middle English texts of King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, and Athelston. The apparatus for each work consists of an introduction, the text, marginal glosses, notes, and a bibliography. There is also a general introduction to the genre of romance.

• Land of Cockaygne

  http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~wpwt/trans/cockaygn/cockaygn.htm
  Modern English translation. Includes introduction and notes.

• Land of Cockaygne

  http://www.thegoldendream.com/landofcokaygne.htm
  Middle English text with two parallel modern English translations.

• Owl and the Nightingale

  http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/anglica/Chronology/13thC/Owl/owl_intr.html
  Middle English text.

• Owl and the Nightingale

  http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~wpwt/trans/owl/owlintro.htm
  Modern English translation. Also includes an introduction, notes, and bibliography.

• Thrush and the Nightingale

  http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~wpwt/digby86/thrushint.htm
  Middle English text and parallel modern English translation. Includes an introduction, notes, and brief bibliography.

• Winner and Waster

  http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~wpwt/trans/winner/winner.htm
  Modern English translation. Includes introduction and notes.

• Winner and Waster

  http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/publication/ginsberg-wynnere-and-wastoure-and-the-parlement-of-the-thre-ages
  Middle English text with introduction, marginal glosses, and notes. An edition of the Parliament of the Three Ages is also included.

 

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