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category: Literary Criticism
published: Oct 1997
ISBN:9780776617299
publisher: University of Ottawa Press

The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. IV

edited by Peter H. J. Mous

tagged: medieval
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The medieval poem Cursor Mundi is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the year 1300, the poem was frequently copied in the north before appearing in a southern version in substantially altered form. Although it is a storehouse of popular medieval biblical lore and a fascinating study in the eclectic use of more than a dozen sources, the poem has until now attracted little scholarly attention. This five-part collaborative edition presents the Arundel version of the poem with variants from three others. In addition it provides a discussion of sources and analogues, detailed explanatory notes, and a bibliography.

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Peter H. J. Mous

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