Codex Ashmole 61: A Compiliation of Popular Middle English Verse

by George Shuffelton

Since its rediscovery by nineteenth-century scholarship, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61 has never been ignored, though it has also not gained a great deal of notoriety beyond the scholars of Middle English romance. It is hoped that the present volume will encourage study of the entire manuscript as a valuable witness to the devotional habits, cultural values, and popular tastes of late medieval England.

Genres: School

655 pages, Paperback

Published December 30, 2008

Reviews

[Ben Hoover · Rating 4 out of 5]

For the quality of the stories it's hit or miss, but for the insight into later-Medieval English gentry literary taste, this collection is invaluable and accessible.