Keith Val Sinclair

French Devotional Texts of the Middle Ages: A Bibliographic Manuscript Guide; Second Supplement Keith Val Sinclair

Marc Notes: Bibliography: p. [xiii]-xxvi.; Includes indexes. Publisher Marketing: This work updates and expands upon the initial volume and the first supplement of Sinclair's now-standard reference, French Devotional Texts of the Middle Ages (Greenwood Press, 1979, 1982). The present work makes available for the first time information about 1500 unrecorded medieval French vernacular devotional texts. Each entry includes details of the text's subject matter, typological structure, location in manuscript, and edition, along with critical commentary. This second supplement also contains new information that has been discovered since the publication of the initial volume in 1979 concerning incipits 2379-5372.

Contributor Bio:  Sinclair, Keith The late Keith Sinclair was Emeritus Professor of History at Auckland University. He was knighted for his services to history in 1988. Contributor Bio:  Sinclair, Keith V KEITH V. SINCLAIR is Professor of French and Chairman of the Department of Modern Languages at James Cook University of North Queensland in Australia.