Frederick J Furnivall: 2 books

Early English Meals and Manners with some Forewords on Education in Early England, 13 cook books published 1460 to 1500

by Frederick J. Furnivall
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017

This collection, first published in 1868, includes: John Russell's Boke of Nurture, c. 1460 Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of Keruynge, 1513; The Boke of Curtasye, c. 1460; R. Weste's Booke of Demeanor, 1619; Seager's Schoole of Vertue, 1557; The Babees Book, 1475; Aristotle's ABC, 1430; Urbanitatis, c. 1460;...

Robert of Brunne's Handlyng Synne (1303)

And its French Original

by Frederick J. Furnivall
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018

Published in 1901, this book provides an English and French version of the 1303 text by Robert Manning of Brunne. Handlyng Synne was adapted from an Anglo-Norman work attributed to William of Waddington, the Manuel de Pechiez. It consists of more than 12,000 lines of verse, arranged in four-stress...