Katherine Group
The Katherine Group refers to five Middle English texts that were written in the early 13th century by an unknown author in a dialect of the West Midlands . The texts deal with the subject of virginity and are addressed to religious hermits.
background
The Katherine Group is a collection of five Middle English prose texts, written in a distinctive language between 1180 and 1210, and addressed to women of faith. Three of the texts are summarized in one script, they deal with the biographies of three holy virgin martyrs, Seinte Julienne ( Juliana of Nicomedia ), Seinte Margarete ( Margaret of Antioch ) and Histe Katherine ( Catherine of Alexandria ). The other two manuscripts are the treatise on Hali Meiðhad ("Holy Virgin") and the allegory Sawles Warde (" Care of the Soul"). They were all written near Herefordshire , although several of the works could be by the same author.
All five texts have survived in the manuscript Bodley 34 and, with the exception of Hali Meiðhad, in the manuscript Royal 17 A XXVII . Sawles Warde , Seinte Katherine and Hali Meiðhad are also included in the manuscript Cotton Titus D XVIII .
JRR Tolkien and the Katherine Group
JRR Tolkien dealt with the texts of the Katherine Group several times during his academic career . In Holy Maidenhood (1923) , Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography and The Devil's Coach-Horses (both 1925) he dealt with Hali Meiðhad , in Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad (1929) with the common language of the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse , and in “Iþþlen” in Sawles Warde (1947) in a word from Sawles Warde .
literature
- Bodleian Library : Facsimile of Ms. Bodley 34. St. Katherine, St. Margaret, St. Juliana, Hali Meiðhad, Sawles Warde. (= Early English Text Society , No. 247.) Oxford University Press, London 1960, OCLC 1146950 .
- Simonne R. Th. O. d'Ardenne: The Katherine group. Edited from MS. Bodley 34. (= Bibliothèque de la Faculté de philosophie et lettres de l'Univesité de Liege. Fasc. 215.) Société d'Edition Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1977, OCLC 446515 .
- Guido Küppers: Studies on Middle English verbal syntax. The modal verbs cunnen, moten, mouen, shulen and willen in the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse. (= Dissertation University of Bonn) Bonn 1995, OCLC 863486972 .
- Bella Millett, George Jack, Yoko Wada: Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group. (= Annotated bibliographies of Old and Middle English literature. Volume 2.) DS Brewer, Cambridge 1996., ISBN 0-8599-1429-1 .
Web links
- About Katherine Group (English)