Mum and the sothsegger

Titre:
Date:	XV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	1751 vers allitératifs
Contenu:
Incipit:	Hough the coroune moste be kepte fro covetous peuple al hoole in his hande and at his heeste eke, that every knotte of the coroune close with other, and not departid for prayer ne profit of grete…
Explicit:	… Thay preched the peuple and provyd hit thaymself and were lanternes to lewed men to lyve thaym after. Thay pourchachid no prelacies with prince nother elles Thorough preyer ne poundes but thorough proufe of thayre workes.
Voir aussi:	Richard the redeless

Manuscrits

London, British Library, Additional, 41666, f. 1r-19v [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Mum and the Sothsegger, edited from the manuscripts Camb. Univ. Ll.iv.14 and Brit. Mus. Add. 41666 by Mabel Day and Robert Steele, London, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 199), 1936, xlvi + 164 p. — Réimpr.: 1971; 1987; Millwood, Kraus, 1990.
The Piers Plowman Tradition: A Critical Edition of Pierce the Ploughman's Crede, Richard the Redeless, Mum and the Sothsegger, and The Crowned King, edited by Helen Barr, London, Dent (Everyman's Library), 1993, 375 p.
Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger, edited by James M. Dean, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts), 2000, viii + 175 p. [lib.rochester.edu]
Compte rendu:
Stephanie Trigg, dans Speculum, 77:4, 2002, p. 1278-1279.

Traductions modernes

Études

Barr, Helen, A Study of "Mum and the Sothsegger" in its Political and Literary Contexts, D. Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 1989.
Barr, Helen, « The relationship of Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger: some new evidence », The Yearbook of Langland Studies, 4, 1990, p. 105-133. DOI: 10.1484/j.yls.2.302915
Barr, Helen, « The dates of Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger », Notes and Queries, n. s., 37:3, 1990, p. 270-275. DOI: 10.1093/nq/37-3-270b
Barr, Helen, « The treatment of natural law in Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger », Leeds Studies in English, n. s., 2, 1992, p. 49-80. [leeds.ac.uk]
Barr, Helen, Signes and Sothe: Language in the Piers Plowman Tradition, Cambridge, Brewer (Piers Plowman Studies, 10), 1994, xiv + 188 p.
Bitterling, Klaus, « Mum and the Sothsegger und Bartholomaeus Anglicus », Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 216, 1979, p. 345-356.
Blamires, Alcuin, « Mum and the Sothsegger and Langlandian idiom », Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 76, 1975, p. 583-604.
Eckhardt, Caroline D., « Another historical allusion in Mum and the Sothsegger », Notes and Queries, 225, 1980, p. 495-497. DOI: 10.1093/nq/27-6-495b
Embree, Dan, « Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger: a case of mistaken identity », Notes and Queries, n. s., 22:1, 1975, p. 4-12. DOI: 10.1093/nq/22-1-4b
Facinelli, Diane A., « Treasonous criticisms of Henry IV: the loyal poet of Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger », Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 10, 1989, p. 51-62.
Ferguson, Arthur B., « The problem of counsel in Mum and the Sothsegger », Studies in the Renaissance, 2, 1955, p. 67-83.
Flower, Robin, « Mum and Sothsegger: a lost English poem recovered », The British Museum Quarterly, 3:4, 1929, p. 100-102. DOI: 10.2307/4420997
Horobin, Simon, « The dialect and authorship of Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger », The Yearbook of Langland Studies, 18, 2004, p. 133-152. DOI: 10.1484/j.yls.2.302611
Mohl, Ruth, « Theories of monarchy in Mum and the Sothsegger », Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 59, 1944, p. 26-44.
Scattergood, Vincent John, Politics and Poetry in the Fifteenth Century, London, Blandford Press (Blandford History Series), 1971, 415 p.
Simpson, James, « The constraints of satire in Piers Plowman and Mum and the Sothsegger », Langland, the Mystics and the Medieval English Religious Tradition, éd. Helen Phillips, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. 11-30.
Wawn, Andrew, « Truth-telling and the tradition of Mum and the Sothsegger », The Yearbook of English Studies, 13, 1983, p. 270-287. [jstor.org]
Wenzel, Siegfried, « Mum and the Sothsegger, lines 421-422 », English Language Notes, 14, 1976, p. 87-90.
Wilcockson, Colin, « Mum and the Sothsegger, Richard II, and Henry V », Review of English Studies, n. s., 46:182, 1995, p. 219-224. DOI: 10.1093/res/XLVI.182.219

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