John the Blind Audelay, Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302)

By (author) John the Blind Audelay Edited by Susanna Fein

Book cover: John the Blind Audelay, Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302)

Extent: 404 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: TEAMS Middle English Texts Series

Language: English

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(October 2009)

ISBN: 9781580441315

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Audelay’s idiosyncratic devotional tastes, interesting personal life history, and declared political affiliations-loyalty to king, upholder of estates, anxiety over heresy-make him worthy of careful study beside his better-known contemporaries. Of particular note: MS Douce 302 preserves Audelay’s own alliterative Marcolf and Solomon, a poem thought to be descended from Langland’s Piers Plowman. The Audelay Manuscript also contains unique copies of other alliterative poems of the ornate style seen in Gawain and the Green Knight and The Pistel of Swete Susan. These pieces are Paternoster and Three Dead Kings, both set at the end of the book. Whether or not they are Audelay’s own compositions, they seem certain to be his own selections. Audelay also displays a persistent habit of sequencing materials in generic and devotionally affective ways. His is a pious sensibility delicately honed by reverence for the liturgy and by an awe of God. That Audelay’s poetry can awaken us to new poetic sensitivities in medieval devotional verse is reason enough to bring him into the ambit of canonical fifteenth-century English poets.

Acknowledgments Introduction The Counsel of Conscience [X.] True Living XI. Marcolf and Solomon [XV.] The Remedy of Nine Virtues XVI. Seven Bleedings of Christ XVII. Prayer on Christ's Passion XVIII. The Psalter of the Passion XIX. Seven Words of Christ on the Cross XX. Devotions at the Levation of Christ's Body XXI. Virtues of the Mass XXII. For Remission of Sins XXIII. Visiting the Sick and Consoling the Needy Blind Audelay's English Passion XXIIII. Pope John's Passion of Our Lord XXV. Our Lord's Epistle on Sunday XXVI. The Vision of Saint Paul XXVII. The Lord's Mercy Salutations XXVIII. Devotions to Jesus and Mary His Mother XXIX. Other Devotions to Mary XXX. Song of the Magnificat XXXI. Salutation to Saint Bridget XXXII. Devotions to Saint Winifred XXXIII. Devotions to Saint Anne XXXIIII. Meditation on the Holy Face Carols XXXV. Carol Sequence Meditative Close XXXVI. Devotional Prose XXXVII. Paternoster XXXVIII. Three Dead Kings Latin Poem Cur Mundus Miletat sub vana Gloria Audelay's Conclusion Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Index of Biblical References Line Indices Bibliography Glossary, Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Counsel of Conscience
[X.] True Living
XI. Marcolf and Solomon
[XV.] The Remedy of Nine Virtues
XVI. Seven Bleedings of Christ
XVII. Prayer on Christ’s Passion
XVIII. The Psalter of the Passion
XIX. Seven Words of Christ on the Cross
XX. Devotions at the Levation of Christ's Body
XXI. Virtues of the Mass
XXII. For Remission of Sins
XXIII. Visiting the Sick and Consoling the Needy
Blind Audelay's English Passion
XXIIII. Pope John's Passion of Our Lord
XXV. Our Lord's Epistle on Sunday
XXVI. The Vision of Saint Paul
XXVII. The Lord's Mercy
Salutations
XXVIII. Devotions to Jesus and Mary His Mother
XXIX. Other Devotions to Mary
XXX. Song of the Magnificat
XXXI. Salutation to Saint Bridget
XXXII. Devotions to Saint Winifred
XXXIII. Devotions to Saint Anne
XXXIIII. Meditation on the Holy Face
Carols
XXXV. Carol Sequence
Meditative Close
XXXVI. Devotional Prose
XXXVII. Paternoster
XXXVIII. Three Dead Kings
Latin Poem Cur Mundus Miletat sub vana Gloria
Audelay's Conclusion
Explanatory Notes
Textual Notes
Index of Biblical References
Line Indices
Bibliography
Glossary

  • By (author) John the Blind Audelay
  • Edited by Susanna Fein