Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302)
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Carols
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Christian Poetry
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John Audelay
Literary Studies
Medieval Poetry
Medieval Studies
Middle English
Poetry
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- ISBN 9781580441315
- Weight: 865g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2009
- Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Audelay's idiosyncratic devotional tastes, interesting personal life history, and declared political affiliations-loyalty to king, upholder of estates, anxiety over heresy-make him worthy of careful study beside his better-known contemporaries. Of particular note: MS Douce 302 preserves Audelay's own alliterative Marcolf and Solomon, a poem thought to be descended from Langland's Piers Plowman. The Audelay Manuscript also contains unique copies of other alliterative poems of the ornate style seen in Gawain and the Green Knight and The Pistel of Swete Susan. These pieces are Paternoster and Three Dead Kings, both set at the end of the book. Whether or not they are Audelay's own compositions, they seem certain to be his own selections. Audelay also displays a persistent habit of sequencing materials in generic and devotionally affective ways. His is a pious sensibility delicately honed by reverence for the liturgy and by an awe of God. That Audelay's poetry can awaken us to new poetic sensitivities in medieval devotional verse is reason enough to bring him into the ambit of canonical fifteenth-century English poets.
Susanna Fein is Professor of English and Coordinator of the A&S Minor in Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (AMRS). She has served terms as English Department Chair, Undergraduate Studies Coordinator, and Chair of the Ph.D. Program in Literature. She was 2010 Bloomfield Fellow in Medieval English Studies at Harvard University and 2014 Visiting Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Fein's research focuses on the literatures, languages, and manuscripts of medieval England, ca. 1100-1500.
