Studies in the Vernon Manuscript

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Studies in the Vernon Manuscript is written by Derek Albert Pearsall and published by Boydell & Brewer Incorporated. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0859913104 (ISBN 10) and 9780859913102 (ISBN 13).

The Vernon manuscript is the largest and in many ways the most important vernacular manuscript of medieval England. Produced in the West Midlands in the late 14th century, at a time when English was in the process of consolidating its hold over Latin and Anglo-Norman as the dominant literary language, it contains a mass of religious writing of all kinds, from pious romances and fables to technical and quasi-mystical treatises. It was, in the intention of its makers, a guide to the soul's health and is to the modern reader an incomparable index to late medieval English spirituality and religious ideas. The publication of a facsimile of the manuscript in 1987 was a mark of its significance for all those who study the English Middle Ages.