The Online Medieval & Classical Library. The St Albans Psalter Project. Table of Contents. University of Aberdeen. CURSUS An On-line Resource of Medieval Liturgical Texts. The purpose of the CURSUS project is to employ the Extensible Markup Language (XML), together with transformations performed by the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSLT), to make data from sources of medieval Latin liturgy available on the Web. Funding sources: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Content types created: Dataset/structured data, Text Software tools used: EMACS, elisp, Pycoon, Swish-e Source material used: "The majority of text which appears in the manuscript files is stored separately in a repostory of antiphons, responds and prayers. Digital resource created: "Almost of our working files are encoded in XML.
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Introduction. The Book of John Mandeville has tended to be neglected by modern teachers and scholars, yet this intriguing and copious work has much to offer the student of medieval literature, history, and culture. 1The Book of John Mandeville was a contemporary bestseller, providing readers with exotic information about locales from Constantinople to China and about the social and religious practices of peoples such as the Greeks, Muslims, and Brahmins.
The Book first appeared in the middle of the fourteenth century and by the next century could be found in an extraordinary range of European languages: not only Latin, French, German, English, and Italian, but also Czech, Danish, and Irish. Its wide readership is also attested by the two hundred and fifty to three hundred medieval manuscripts that still survive today. The author of the Book identifies himself as Sir John Mandeville, an English knight from St. Author, Date Of Composition, And Original Language Sources And Form. Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.