The Welsh Hymn to the Virgin: contexts and reception

Thuillier, Manon Gwendoline Morgane (2019) The Welsh Hymn to the Virgin: contexts and reception. MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

The Hymn to the Virgin is a poem attributed to the Welsh poet Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal, thought to have been written around 1470 while he was a student at the University of Oxford. It is reputedly the first poem ever written in English by a Welshman (Stephens 1998: 341). The particularities of this poem are, first, its language, as it is composed in Middle to Early Modern English but spelled using Welsh letter-values, and the way it was transmitted, as it survives in twelve manuscripts, all of which being of Welsh origin and containing poetry in Welsh (with a few exceptions in Latin). This thesis comprises a survey of the different sources in which the poem is to be found, along with transcriptions and textual analyses of the manuscript copies.

• Item Type: Thesis (MPhil(R))
• Qualification Level: Masters
• Keywords: Welsh manuscripts, Anglo-Welsh literature, textual afterlife, history of English, pragmaphilology.
• Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics; P Language and Literature > PE English; Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography
• Colleges/Schools: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Language and Linguistics; College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Celtic and Gaelic
• Supervisor's Name: Smith, Prof. Jeremy J. and Clancy, Prof. Thomas
• Date of Award: 2019
• Depositing User: Ms Manon GM Thuillier
• Unique ID: glathesis:2019-41210
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 23 May 2019 12:13
• Last Modified: 05 Mar 2020 21:17
• Thesis DOI: 10.5525/gla.thesis.41210
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/41210