"Truste 3e rapir to lettirs written in p'is": A Selection of Middle English Death Lyrics in Translation
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2003-11-07
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This paper discusses themes in Middle English lyrics on death, particularly those of Doomsday, purgatory and the physical aspects of death, and provides interlinear translations of thirteen lyrics about death dating from the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries.
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lyrics, Middle English, thirteenth century, fourteenth century, fifteenth century, purgatory, black death, Middle Ages, death, thanatology, medieval, doomsday, judgment day
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MA
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English
