Submission Date
4-29-2019
Document Type
Paper
Department
English
Adviser
Kara McShane
Committee Member
Matthew Kozusko
Committee Member
Diane Amoroso-O'Connor
Department Chair
Rebecca Jaroff
Project Description
This project examines and transcribes various understudied texts from the University of Aberdeen’s MS 123 in order to create a more complete picture of this manuscript. Chapter one looks at the “Sultan Letters” and “List of Kings,” two fictional texts discussing politics, and their evocation of crusades and travel romance genre conventions. The second chapter looks at the intersection of poetic form, vernacularity, gender, and religion in the poem “Modyr of Maries III” and excerpts from the Golden Legend. Finally, the third chapter examines two medical texts, “Diet & Bloodletting” and “32 Perilous Days,” for their conventionality, vernacularity, and relationship with gender. Altogether, these texts suggest that MS 123 is a miscellany highly characteristic of the time in which it was written.
Recommended Citation
Ludwig, Bailey, "A Sample of Understudied Works in Aberdeen MS 123" (2019). English Honors Papers. 9.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/english_hon/9
