Erasmus in English 1523-1584, Volume I
The Manual of the Christian Soldier and Other Writings
Edited by Alex Davis, Gordon Kendal and Neil Rhodes
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Tudor and Stuart Translations 26/1 of 3 Modern Humanities Research Association 5 January 2023 • 466pp ISBN: 978-1-781889-42-8 (hardback) • RRP £49.99, $59.99, €59.99 ISBN: 978-1-781889-43-5 (paperback) • RRP £27.99, $34.99, €34.99 ISBN: 978-1-781889-44-2 (JSTOR ebook) Sample: Google Books • Access online: Books@JSTOR This is volume 1 of 3. See also volume 2 here and volume 3 here. The translation of Erasmus’s Manual of the Christian Soldier, thought to be by William Tyndale, is one of the foundational texts of the English Reformation. The present edition is based for the first time on the recently-discovered manuscript dating from 1523. It is accompanied by translations of other key religious works, Erasmus’s treatise on the Lord’s Prayer and the introduction to the New Testament; by the anti-papal satire, Julius Exclusus; and by the Epistle in Praise of Matrimony and the Proverbs, both translated by the English Erasmian, Richard Taverner, in support of Thomas Cromwell’s reformist agenda. Alex Davis is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of three books: Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance (Boydell and Brewer, 2003), Renaissance Historical Fiction (Boydell and Brewer, 2011), and Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare (OUP, 2020). Gordon Kendal was formerly Chaplain and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, where he taught philosophy and theology, and he has held an honorary research fellowship in English at St Andrews. He edited Gavin Douglas’s Aeneid and George Chapman’s Odyssey for MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations. Neil Rhodes is Professor of English Literature and Cultural History at the University of St Andrews. His books include Shakespeare and the Origins of English (OUP, 2004) and Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England (OUP, 2018), and he has also edited the volume English Renaissance Translation Theory for the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations.
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For a contents listing, see this volume at JSTOR. Bibliography entry: Davis, Alex, Gordon Kendal, and Neil Rhodes (eds), Erasmus in English 1523-1584, Volume I: The Manual of the Christian Soldier and Other Writings, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 26 (MHRA, 2023) First footnote reference: 35 Erasmus in English 1523-1584, Volume I: The Manual of the Christian Soldier and Other Writings, ed. by Alex Davis, Gordon Kendal and Neil Rhodes, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 26 (MHRA, 2023), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Davis, Kendal, and Rhodes, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Davis, Alex, Gordon Kendal, and Neil Rhodes (eds). 2023. Erasmus in English 1523-1584, Volume I: The Manual of the Christian Soldier and Other Writings, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 26 (MHRA) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Davis, Kendal, and Rhodes 2023: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Davis, Kendal, and Rhodes 2023: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Erasmus-in-English-1523-1584-Volume-I-1 www.mhra.org.uk/publications/tst-26-1 |
