Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad

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"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

Works by J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction

1930s	Songs for the Philologists (1936) The Hobbit (1937)

1940s	Leaf by Niggle (1947) The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945) Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)

1950s	The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953) The Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) The Two Towers (1954) The Return of the King (1955)

1960s	The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (1962) Tree and Leaf (1964) The Tolkien Reader (1966) The Road Goes Ever On (1967) Smith of Wootton Major (1967)

Posthumous
fiction

1970s	The Father Christmas Letters (1976) The Silmarillion (1977)

1980s	Unfinished Tales (1980) Mr. Bliss (1982)

1990s	Bilbo's Last Song (1990) The History of Middle-earth (12 Volumes) (1983–1996) Roverandom (1998)

2000s	The Children of Húrin (2007) The History of The Hobbit (2007) The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009)

Academic

1920s	A Middle English Vocabulary (1922) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925) Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography (1925) The Devil's Coach Horses (1925) Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad (1929)

1930s	The Name "Nodens" (1932) Sigelwara Land Parts I and II, in Medium Aevum (1932–34) Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale (1934) Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1936) The Reeve's Tale: version prepared for recitation at the "summer diversions" (1939) On Fairy-Stories (1939)

1940s	Sir Orfeo (1944)

1950s	Ofermod and Beorhtnoth's Death (1953) Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic enquiry (1953)

1960s	Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (1962) English and Welsh (1963) Introduction to Tree and Leaf (1964) Contributions to the Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer) (1966) Tolkien on Tolkien (autobiographical) (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 (1983)
Beowulf and the Critics (2002)

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