Middle English Texts

Abstract

IT is forty years since the Universitätsverlag Carl Winter launched a new series: Middle English Texts—MET. The first volume, edited by Oliver S. Pickering and published in 1975, was The South English Nativity of Mary and Christ . It was reviewed in this journal, vol. 221 (1976), 531–3, together with vols 2 and 3. All three showed how well MET fulfilled the need in Middle English studies of scholarly editions of texts not conveniently available in modern editions, and MET still fulfils that need. By 2014 fifty volumes had been published, and as this review article celebrating these fifty was being put together, a fifty-first volume presented itself for review, all five more handsome in appearance than the early volumes, which were typewritten in appearance, their right margin unjustified. All of these volumes are published in Heidelberg, at the publishing house Winter: Carrie Griffin (ed.), The Middle English Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, MET 47 (2013), pp. lxxv + 74. ISBN 978–3–8253–6174–7. William Marx (ed.), The Middle English Liber Aureus and Gospel of Nicodemus, MET 48 (2013), pp. xci + 143. ISBN 978–3–8253–6175–4. Niamh Pattwell (ed.), Exornatorium Curatorum , MET 49 (2013), pp. xliv + 60. ISBN 978–3–8253–6176–1. Francisco Alonso Almeida (ed.), A Middle English Medical Remedy Book , MET 50 (2014), pp. 143. ISBN 978–3–8253–6412–0. Joanna Bellis (ed.), John Page’s The Siege of Rouen, MET 51 (2015), pp. lxxvii + 158. ISBN 978–3–8253–6426–7.