ORRMULUM

or Ormulumboth: ôrmˈyooləm, Middle English collection of homilies on the Gospels, in verse, comprising about 10,000 lines in all. The collection was written c.1200 by Orrm (or Orrmin), an Augustinian canon of Lincolnshire. Because the author had his own system of spelling and because the manuscript is probably in his own handwriting, the Orrmulum is of great importance for the study of Middle English phonology.

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A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World
Book by Christopher Harper-Bill, Elisabeth Van Houts; Boydell Press, 2003
Subjects: England--Civilization--1066-1485--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, Great Britain--History--Norman Period, 1066-1154--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, Normans--Great Britain--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
...22 and the Gospel translations of the Orrmulum from around 1180 (`iss boc iss nemmned Orrmulum forri att Orrm itt wrohhte), a spectacularly...On the Presumed Date... of the MS of Orrmulum, in Five Hundred Years of Words and Sounds...
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Early Middle English Literature
Book by R. M. Wilson; Methuen, 1939
Subjects: English Literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History And Criticism
...translations from that language. One of the earliest, however, the Orrmulum , 1 is an exception to this; it is completely isolated in...probably, it may never have been written. Metrically the Orrmulum is an experiment, and an experiment which has not succeeded...
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A Summary of the Literatures of Modern Europe (England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain) from the Origins to 1400
Book by Marian Edwardes; J. M. Dent, 1907
Subjects: Europe--Literature--History And Criticism, Literature, Medieval--History And Criticism
...was possibly of Danish descent, and an Augustinian monk. Orrmulum. A metrical paraphrase of the daily gospels; only part of...and 28, 1906, on the identification of the place where the Orrmulum was written, dialect, etc. MS., Bodl. Jun. 1 possibly...
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Studies in English Language & Literature: Doubt Wisely: Papers in Honour of E.G. Stanley
Book by M. J. Toswell, E. M. Tyler; Routledge, 1996
Subjects: English Philology--Middle English, 1100-1500, English Philology--Old English, Ca. 450-1100
...ou here my bone (1). 3 R. Sachse, Das unorganische e im Orrmulum (Halle: Ernst Schneider, 1881), p. 4. 4 R.M. White...1878). 5 M. Lehnert, Sprachform und Sprachfunktion im Orrmulum (um 1200) (Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften...
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A Companion to Ancrene Wisse
Book by Yoko Wada; D.S. Brewer, 2003
Subjects: Ancren Riwle, Christian Literature, English (Middle)--History And Criticism, Christianity And Literature--England--History--To 1500, Monastic And Religious Life Of Women--England--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Monasticism And Religious Orders For Women--England--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Recluses In Literature, Solitude In Literature, Women And Literature--England--History--To 1500
...Ayenbite of Inwyt and the late twelfth-century East Midland Orrmulum, 5 Tolkien marks it out as a linguistic medium of comparable...edited by Morris, with introduction and notes in Gradon. The Orrmulum is edited in Holt and White; on its spelling see especially...
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The Grounds of English Literature
Journal article by Vincent Gillespie; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Grounds of English Literature (Book)--Book reviews
...emerges as a force capable of outliving and stabilizing the transience of individual kings and tribal groups. His reading of the Orrmulum explores its links with preaching and related discourses, and analyses its fascination with correctness and right writing...
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Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England
Journal article by Julia Boffey; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England (Book)--Book reviews
...Conquest oral poetics to the tradition in flux. Texts of which parts are singled out for detailed study include Beowulf, the Orrmulum, the Peterborough Chronicle, the Brut, the Owl and the Nightingale, and a group of fourteenth-century romances. The...


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encyclopedia articles on: Orrmulum  - 3 results

 
 
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Orrmulum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ORRMULUM or Ormulum both: orm yool m, Middle English collection of homilies on...spelling and because the manuscript is probably in his own handwriting, the Orrmulum is of great importance for the study of Middle English phonology...
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Middle English Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...literary as well as the spoken language of England. The Early Period Several poems in early Middle English are extant. The Orrmulum (c.1200), a verse translation of parts of the Gospels, is of linguistic and prosodic rather than literary interest...
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Ormulum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ORMULUM see Orrmulum . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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