The Katherine Group and the Wooing Group are among the most important prose works in early medieval English, both for their long-acknowledged linguistic and literary richness and their significance as texts for women. These concordances, freshly edited from the principal manuscripts, provide a readily accessible tool for investigating the lexical, thematic, and other properties of the alliterative virgin martyr legends and other texts of the Katherine Group together with the related spiritual meditations of the Wooing Group (in which female voices woo Christ). Whether for research or teaching, work on each of these famous Groups in itself and on the relations between them will be facilitated by the inclusion of the two concordances in the one volume.
LORNA STEVENSON gained her Ph.D. from Liverpool University; JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE teaches in the English Department at Fordham University.
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Of fundamental benefit to the study of early Middle English. * MEDIUM AEVUM *
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Part 1 The Katherine Group: concordance to vernacular forms in MS. Bodley 34 and forms supplied from MS. Royal 17 A XXVII; sample high frequency listing (MSS B & R); high frequency indices (MSS B & R); unexpected forms (MS. B); unexpected forms (MS. R); marked forms (MS.B); marked forms (MS. R). Part 2 The Wooing Group: concordance to vernacular forms in MS. Nero A XIV and MS. Titus D XVIII; unexpected forms (MSS N & T); marked forms (MSS N & T). Appendices: alphabetical listing of vernacular forms - Katherine Group (MS. B), Katherine Group (MS. R), Wooing Group (MSS N & T); Latin forms in the Katherine and Wooing groups - alphabetical listing, concordance; index of proper names - English and Latin; vernacular forms arranged in descending frequency - Katherine Group (MS. B), Katherine Group (Ms. R), Wooing Group (MSS N & T); reverse alphabetical listing of vernacular forms - Katherine Group (MS. B), Katherine Group (MS. R), Wooing Group (MSS N & T); vocabulary of the Katherine and Wooing groups; concordance to minor lacunae in the Katherine and Wooing groups.
