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Notes
1. See Malcolm B. Parkes, "The Influence of the Concepts of Ordinatio and
Compilatio on the Development of the Book," in Medieval Learning and Literature,
Essays presented to Richard William Hunt, ed. J. J. G. Alexander and M. T. Gibson (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1976), pp. 115-141; Alastair J. Minnis, "Late-medieval discussions of
Compilatio and the role of the Compilator," Beiträge zur Geschichte der
deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 101 (1979), 385-421; and all the essays in Manuscripts
and Readers in Fifteenth-Century England: The Literary Implications of Manuscript Study,
ed. Derek Pearsall (Cambridge, England: D. S. Brewer, 1983).
2. See the Facsimile of MS. Bodley 34, introd. N. R. Ker, EETS O.S. 247
(London: Oxford University Press, 1960); and The Katherine Group Edited from MS. Bodley
34, ed. S. R. T. O. d'Ardenne (Paris: Bibliothèque de la Faculté de
Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège, 1977).
3. See the review of the debate and evidence over authorship in þe Liflade ant
te Passiun of Seinte Iuliene, ed. S. R. T. O. d'Ardenne (1936; rpt. with corrigenda as EETS
O. S. 248, London: Oxford University Press, 1961), pp. xl-xlviii.
4. James E. Gage, "Hali Meiðhad and Kindred Herefordshire Works," Ph. D.
Dissertation, Indiana University 1978, p. 147.
5. Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria Nova, trans. Margaret F. Nims (Toronto:
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1967), pp. 16-23.
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6. Geoffrey of Vinsauf, p. 24.
7. My favorite comment on this phenomenon is C. S. Lewis' remark that medieval people
were like Tolkien's Hobbits because they enjoyed reading books which told them what they
already knew. See his Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance
Literarature (London: Cambridge University Press, 1964), p. 200.
8. The Life of Saint Katherine, ed. Eugen Einenkel, EETS O. S. 80 (London: N.
Trubner and Co., 1884), p. 67.
9. Hali Meidenhad, ed. F. J. Furnivall, EETS O. S. 18a (London: Oxford
University Press, 1922), p. 32.
10. M. Schlauch, English Medieval Literature and its Social Foundations
(Warsaw: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1956), p. 11.
11. J. A. W. Bennet and G. V. Smithers, Early Middle English Verse and Prose
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), p. 261.
12. See Seinte Marherete: þe Meiden and Martyr, ed. Frances M. Mack,
EETS O. S. 193 (London: Oxford University Press, 1934), p. xxii; Dorothy Bethurum, "The
Connection of the Katherine Group with Old English Prose," JEGP, 34 (1935), 553-557;
and Gage, pp. 76-119.
13. Mack, p. 4.
14. Þe Liflade of St. Juliana, ed. Oswald Cockayne, EETS O. S. 51
(London: N. Trubner and Co., 1872), p. 75.