The Welsh Hymn to the Virgin: contexts and reception

P Philology. Linguistics;PE English;Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography

Thuillier, Manon Gwendoline Morgane ; Smith, Jeremy J.

University:University of Glasgow

Department:School of Critical Studies

关键词: Welsh manuscripts, Anglo-Welsh literature, textual afterlife, history of English, pragmaphilology.;   

Others  :  http://theses.gla.ac.uk/41210/7/2019ThuillierMPhil.pdf

来源: University of Glasgow

【 摘 要 】

The Hymn to the Virgin is a poem attributed to the Welsh poet Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal, thought to have been written around 1470 while he was a student at the University of Oxford. It is reputedly the first poem ever written in English by a Welshman (Stephens 1998: 341). The particularities of this poem are, first, its language, as it is composed in Middle to Early Modern English but spelled using Welsh letter-values, and the way it was transmitted, as it survives in twelve manuscripts, all of which being of Welsh origin and containing poetry in Welsh (with a few exceptions in Latin). This thesis comprises a survey of the different sources in which the poem is to be found, along with transcriptions and textual analyses of the manuscript copies.