Middle English Texts Series (METS)

FAIN: RQ-50616-12

University of Rochester (Rochester, NY 14627-0001)
Russell A. Peck (Project Director: December 2011 to June 2016)

The preparation for print and web publication of fifteen to seventeen volumes of medieval literary texts, focused on the 13th to 16th centuries. (36 months)

The Middle English Text Series (METS) is an ongoing project, now in its 21st year. 75 volumes have been published. This proposal requests funding that will produce 15 to 17 more volumes. Above all else, the purpose of METS is to make available for scholarly use reliable editions of Middle English literature deemed essential for literary and historical investigation. The focus of this project is upon literature from the 13th to the early 16th centuries that complements the better-known canonical authors and reaches to the boundaries of what was rapidly becoming a considerable corpus of vernacular literature and the beginnings of English literary study. Given its print and online formats the Series has demonstrably enhanced humanist inquiry of English and Anglo-Norman culture worldwide--from France, Italy and Germany to China, Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand.

Associated Products

The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript (in three volumes) (Book)
Title: The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript (in three volumes)
Editor: Suzanna Fein
Editor: David Raybin
Editor: Jan Ziolkowski
Editor: Pamela M. Yee, METS Assistant Editor
Editor: Russell Peck, METS General Editor
Editor: Alan Lupack, METS Associate Editor
Abstract: London, British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary books to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are contemporary political songs as well as lyrics designed to inspire religious devotion. Beyond these English works are less-well-known ones in French and Latin: four fabliaux (the largest set from medieval England), three lives of Anglo-Saxon saints and satires, comedies, debates, interludes, collected sayings, conduct literature, Bible stories, dream interpretations, and pilgrim guides. With texts in three languages, the book has a wide range. The Ludlow scribe, compiler and copyist, shows himself to have been a man of unusual curiosity, acquisitiveness and discerning connoisseurship.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/complete-harley-2253-manuscript/oclc/880521015&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Secondary URL: https://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=67258
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's listing
Access Model: Book
Publisher: Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University
Type: Edited Volume
Type: Translation
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781580441995
Translator: Jan Ziolkowski
Translator: Susannah Fein
Translator: David Raybin
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

The King of Tars (Book)
Title: The King of Tars
Editor: John H. Chandler
Editor: Pamela M. Yee, METS Assistant Editor
Editor: Russell Peck, METS General Editor
Editor: Alan Lupack, METS Associate Editor
Abstract: The second book in the Auchinleck manuscript (c. 1330). The King of Tars is an early fourteenth-century Middle English poem, a variation on the Constance- tale, celebrating the marriage of a Christian princess to a Muslim sultan and the sultan's conversion to Christianity.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/king-of-tars/oclc/898334317&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat Listing
Secondary URL: https://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=66991
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's listing
Access Model: book
Publisher: Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781580442046
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

The King of Tars (Web Resource)
Title: The King of Tars
Author: TEAMS Middle English Texts
Abstract: The King of Tars is an early fourteenth-century Middle English poem, a variation on the Constance- tale, celebrating the marriage of a Christian princess to a Muslim sultan and the sultan's conversion to Christianity.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/publication/chandler-the-king-of-tars
Primary URL Description: This is the digital full text for The King of Tars on the METS website. METS is one branch of the Robbins Library Digital Projects, which is hosted by the University of Rochester. The website is open access.

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