Welcome to METS, the Middle English Texts Series.
METS is a diverse, ever-growing collection of edited medieval texts. Our editions represent the medieval literary traditions and cultures that flourished in what is modern Great Britain. It is committed to publishing affordable print and open access digital editions that are accessible to all.
Recent Edition
William Caxton, Paris and Vienne and Blanchardyn and Eglantine
Paris and Vienne, published in 1485, and Blanchardyn and Eglantine, published in 1489, are unique among the romances printed for English audiences by William Caxton, the printer responsible for many of the earliest print versions of major canonical works in England. The only independent tales of adventure that Caxton did not draw from the epic cycles of England, France, Greece, and Rome, these romances enjoyed widespread popularity throughout medieval Europe in multiple languages and in both verse and prose prior to Caxton’s translations. Presenting lively characters, distinctive treatments of familiar plots, and differing but complementary accounts of chivalry and courtly love, these romances were both edifying and entertaining for medieval English audiences; as two of the first knightly romances ever printed in England, they also provide important witnesses to the development of English prose style, the evolution of the romance genre, and late medieval precursors to the novel.
METS Editions
Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse
The Digby Mary Magdalene Play
Sentimental and Humourous Romances, Floris and Blancheflour, Sir Degrevant, The Squire of Low Degree, The Tournament of Tottenham, and The Feast of Tottenham
The Katherine Group (MS Bodley 34)
The Temple of Glas
Lancelot of the Laik and Sir Tristrem
Christine De Pizan's Advice for Princes in Middle English Translation, Stephen Scrope's The Epistle of Othea and the Anonymous Litel Bibell of Knyghthod
Siege of Jerusalem
John Lydgate's Dance of Death and related works
Confessio Amantis
Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales
The King of Tars
Prose Merlin
Six Scottish Courtly and Chivalric Poems, Including Lyndsay's Squyer Meldrum
Three Middle English Charlemagne Romances
Sir Torrent of Portingale
Isopes Fabules
Our editions maintain the linguistic integrity of the original works but within the parameters of modern reading conventions. The editions maintain the linguistic integrity of the original works but within the parameters of modern reading conventions.
Coming Soon
The English Apocalypse: A Fourteenth Century Bible Translation in Transition: The Plimpton Manuscript
Before translators at the University of Oxford began producing the first Wycliffite Bibles in the 1380s, few complete books of the Bible had ever been translated into Middle English. One notable exception is the English Apocalypse, a Middle English version of the Book of Revelation translated between 1340 and 1360 from an Anglo-Norman Apocalypse dated to the early fourteenth century. The English Apocalypse survives in eighteen extant manuscripts and often appears alongside Wycliffite material, attesting to its popularity with Wycliffite translators. In the case of this edition’s chosen base manuscript, it almost completely replaces the Middle English translation of the Book of Revelation from the Latin Vulgate Bible, the source text for most Wycliffite Bibles of the period. Expanding upon earlier work on this important textual tradition, this edition of the English Apocalypse offers a unique glimpse into English Bible translation and production at a historic moment of transition.
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