The Volokh Conspiracy - Medieval literature bleg:

For my medieval reading group at Georgetown Law, my plan is to read works of the Pearl Poet this summer. We're about to finish Pearl and start Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; the text I'm using is Dunn and Byrne's anthology of Middle English literature, which is the book I used in college when I took Ed Condren's course at UCLA in Winter 1993.

My question relates to the other two poems by the Pearl Poet — Patience (not the Gilbert & Sullivan show or anything else) and Cleanness. Those aren't reproduced in Dynn and Byrnes. The standard text seems to be Andrew and Waldron's Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. But that text doesn't have marginal glosses — the glossary is all at the back of the book, which would make it hard to read for an informal reading group that isn't expert in Middle English.

So... does anyone know where I can find versions of Patience and Cleanness in the original Middle English but with good marginal glosses?

	[Sasha Volokh, June 20, 2007 at 11:01am] Trackbacks Medieval literature bleg: For my medieval reading group at Georgetown Law, my plan is to read works of the Pearl Poet this summer. We're about to finish Pearl and start Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; the text I'm using is Dunn and Byrne's anthology of Middle English literature, which is the book I used in college when I took Ed Condren's course at UCLA in Winter 1993. My question relates to the other two poems by the Pearl Poet — Patience (not the Gilbert & Sullivan show or anything else) and Cleanness. Those aren't reproduced in Dynn and Byrnes. The standard text seems to be Andrew and Waldron's Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. But that text doesn't have marginal glosses — the glossary is all at the back of the book, which would make it hard to read for an informal reading group that isn't expert in Middle English. So... does anyone know where I can find versions of Patience and Cleanness in the original Middle English but with good marginal glosses?