Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad

"Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad" is a 1929 essay^[1] by J. R. R. Tolkien on the thirteenth century Middle English treatise Ancrene Wisse ("The Anchoresses' Rule") and on the tract on virginity Hali Meiðhad ("Holy Maidenhood"). The essay has been called "the most perfect of Tolkien's academic pieces".^[2]

In this essay Tolkien first promulgated the AB language concept.

Tolkien and Ker later (in 1962) edited a volume of the text for the Early English Text Society.^[3]

References

↑ Tolkien, J. R. R., "Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad." Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association 14 (1929), 104-26.
↑ The Road to Middle-earth, Tom Shippey
↑ J. R. R. Tolkien, N. R. Ker, eds. (1962) The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (Ancrene Wisse, Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 402). (Early English Text Society; 249). Oxford U. P. ISBN 0-19-722249-8

J. R. R. Tolkien

Bibliography

Fiction	Songs for the Philologists (1936) The Hobbit (1937) Leaf by Niggle (1947) The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945/2016) Farmer Giles of Ham (1949) The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) The Two Towers (1954) The Return of the King (1955) The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962) Tree and Leaf (1964) The Tolkien Reader (1966) The Road Goes Ever On (1967) Smith of Wootton Major (1967)

Posthumous fiction	The Father Christmas Letters (1976) The Silmarillion (1977) Poems and Stories (1980) Unfinished Tales (1980) Mr. Bliss (1982) Bilbo's Last Song (1990) The History of Middle-earth (1983–1996) Tales from the Perilous Realm (1997) Roverandom (1998) The Children of Húrin (2007) The History of The Hobbit (2007) The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009) The Fall of Arthur (2013) The Story of Kullervo (2015) Beren and Lúthien (2017)

Academic works	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925) The Devil's Coach Horses (1925) Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad (1929) Sigelwara Land (1932–34) The Reeve's Tale (1934) Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1936) On Fairy-Stories (1939) On Translating Beowulf (1940) Sir Orfeo (1944) Ancrene Wisse (1962) English and Welsh (1963) Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer, 1966)

Posthumous academic	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (Modern English translations, 1975) Finn and Hengest (1982) The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays (1983) Beowulf and the Critics (2002) Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary with Sellic Spell (2014) A Secret Vice (1983/2016) List of Tolkien's alliterative verse

Related	Influences Languages constructed by Tolkien Inklings Mythopoeic Society The Tolkien Society Tolkien Reading Day Tolkien Studies Memorials Tolkien research Works inspired by Tolkien J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography (1977, authorized biography)

Family	Tolkien family Edith Tolkien (wife) Christopher Tolkien (son) Simon Tolkien (grandson)

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