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Article: Festivity, order, and community in fourteenth-century Ireland: the composition and contexts of BL MS Harley 913.
- Article from:
- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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ABSTRACT
Interpretations of British Library MS Harley 913 have in the past unduly privileged its Middle English contents, such as the well-known 'Land of Cockaygne', over its texts in medieval Latin and Anglo-Norman. A reconsideration of the contents of the manuscript as a whole tends to confirm that it originated with the Franciscans in Waterford; but it also suggests that the collection should be understood in terms of its thematic and literary coherence, and not as a programme narrowly identified with the interests of the friars or of the English community in Ireland.
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