Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Note on translations
- Introduction
- 1 Iacob and Iosep: a happy tale of a knightly family
- 2 Two lives of Adam and Eve: exemplarity after the Fall
- 3 A Pistel of Susan: beauty in a Babylonian garden
- 4 Patience: anti-romance
- 5 Cleanness: household virtues, familiar sins
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of manuscripts
- General index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Note on translations
- Introduction
- 1 Iacob and Iosep: a happy tale of a knightly family
- 2 Two lives of Adam and Eve: exemplarity after the Fall
- 3 A Pistel of Susan: beauty in a Babylonian garden
- 4 Patience: anti-romance
- 5 Cleanness: household virtues, familiar sins
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of manuscripts
- General index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Middle English Biblical PoetryRomance, Audience and Tradition, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021