Turpines Story: A Middle English Translation of the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle (Early English Text Society Original Series): 322 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0197223257 ISBN 13: 9780197223253

Publisher: Early English Text Society, 2004

Synopsis

Turpines Story is a unique English version of the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle, a legendary account of Charlemagne's wars in Spain, and one of the most popular texts of the Middle Ages. This recently discovered fifteenth-century translation is one of the earliest prose romances written in English, and it testifies to a distinct and flourishing insular literary tradition concerning Charlemagne. Identification of the original owner of the sole surviving manuscript locates the text both in the national politics of the Wars of the Roses, and in the regional litigation of the 'Great Berkeley Lawsuit'. It has not been published before. Stephen H. A. Shepherd is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

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Review:

...a meticulously edited text, with extensive commentary (Phillipa Hardman, Notes and Queries)

Synopsis:

This unique Middle English text, not previously published, of the immensely popular story of Charlemagne's Spanish wars and defeat at Roncevaux, has only recently been discovered. It is one of the earliest prose romances, pre-dating Sir Thomas Malory's "Morte D'Artur" by more than a decade. This version testifies to a distinctive British tradition of the Charlemagne story. The manuscript's history locates the text in Lancastrian and regional politics of the mid-fifteenth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Early English Text Society
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0197223257
• ISBN 13: 9780197223253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 169
• Editor: Shepherd Stephen H. A.