Lydgate, John 1370?-1451?

Overview

Works:	628 works in 1,672 publications in 10 languages and 25,395 library holdings
Genres:	Manuscripts, Medieval
Roles:	Translator, Editor, Creator
Classifications:	pr1119, 821.2

Publication Timeline

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Publications about John Lydgate

Publications by John Lydgate

Publications by John Lydgate, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about John Lydgate

Mastering Aesop medieval education, Chaucer, and his followers by Edward Wheatley ( Book )
The poetry of John Lydgate by Alain Renoir ( Book )
John Lydgate; a study in the culture of the XVth century by Walter F Schirmer ( Book )
Gower and Lydgate by Derek Albert Pearsall ( Book )
John Lydgate by Derek Albert Pearsall ( Book )

John Lydgate by Lois Ebin ( Book )
Print culture and the medieval author : Chaucer, Lydgate, and their books, 1473-1557 by Alexandra Gillespie ( Book )
John Lydgate and the making of public culture by Maura Nolan ( Book )
Chaucerian tragedy by Henry Ansgar Kelly ( Book )
John Lydgate (1371-1449) : a bio-bibliography by Derek Albert Pearsall ( Book )
John Lydgate : poetry, culture, and Lancastrian England ( Book )
Lydgate matters : poetry and material culture in the fifteenth century ( Book )
John Shirley : book production and the noble household in fifteenth-century England by Margaret Connolly ( Book )
Nation, court, and culture : new essays on fifteenth-century English poetry ( Book )
John Lydgate; ein Kulturbild aus dem 15. Jahrhundert by Walter F Schirmer ( Book )
Die Lyrik Lydgates by E Gattinger ( Book )
Lydgate's disguising at Hertford Castle : the first secular comedy in the English language : a translation and study by John Lydgate ( Book )
Imaginings of time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's verse by Karen Elaine Smyth ( Book )
Die Aureate Terms als Stilelement bei Lydgate by Elfriede Tilgner ( Book )
The minor poems of John Lydgate : part II by John Lydgate ( Book )

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Most widely held works by John Lydgate

Poems by John Lydgate ( Book )
12 editions published between 1966 and 1968 in 3 languages and held by 583 libraries worldwide

Lydgate's Siege of Thebes by John Lydgate ( Book )
79 editions published between 1450 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 555 libraries worldwide

The minor poems of John Lydgate by John Lydgate ( Book )
71 editions published between 1911 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 535 libraries worldwide

Lydgate's Troy book. A.D. 1412-20 by John Lydgate ( Book )
93 editions published between 1513 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 530 libraries worldwide
A conflation of Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troiae, and Benoît de Sainte More's Roman de Troie, written in Middle English verse.

Lydgate's Reson and sensuallyte by John Lydgate ( Book )
25 editions published between 1901 and 2006 in English and English, Middle and held by 529 libraries worldwide

Lydgate's Temple of glas by John Lydgate ( Book )
54 editions published between 1477 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 493 libraries worldwide
Anonymous. By John Lydgate. Wrongly attributed to Stephen Hawes.

Lydgate's Fall of Princes by John Lydgate ( Book )
42 editions published between 1450 and 1997 in English and English, Middle and held by 443 libraries worldwide
An imperfect paraphrase of Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, Laurence de Premierfait's second, augmented French prose verion of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium. The text includes marginal comments in various hands.

Lydgate's minor poems. The two nightingale poems. (A.D. 1446.) by John Lydgate ( Book )
23 editions published between 1900 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 425 libraries worldwide

The Dance of death ( Book )
11 editions published between 1931 and 2000 in English and held by 419 libraries worldwide

Saint Albon and Saint Amphibalus by John Lydgate ( Book )
13 editions published between 1534 and 1992 in 3 languages and held by 418 libraries worldwide

A critical edition of John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady by John Lydgate ( Book )
4 editions published in 1961 in English and held by 417 libraries worldwide

The pilgrimage of the life of man by Guillaume ( Book )
36 editions published between 1901 and 2006 in English and English, Middle and held by 410 libraries worldwide

The assembly of gods; or, The accord of reason and sensuality in the fear of death by John Lydgate ( Book )
34 editions published between 1498 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 381 libraries worldwide

The Bruce; or, The book of the most excellent and noble prince, Robert de Broyss, King of Scots by John Barbour ( Book )
21 editions published between 1878 and 1966 in English and English, Middle and held by 303 libraries worldwide

The Court of Sapience ( Book )
2 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 283 libraries worldwide

The gouernaunce of kynges and prynces ( Book )
28 editions published between 1511 and 2001 in English and English, Middle and held by 278 libraries worldwide

Lydgate's Fall of princes by Giovanni Boccaccio ( Book )
45 editions published between 1450 and 1981 in English and English, Middle and held by 262 libraries worldwide
John Lydgate's poetical version, in English, of Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium. 10 leaves lacking from codex: 3 initial leaves, resulting in loss of Prologue (ll. 1-469); 4 leaves between fol. 22 and 23 (Bk I, ll. 4201-4872); 2 leaves between fol. 51 and 52 (Bk. II, ll. 2682-3017); 1 leaf between fol. 205 and 206 (Bk. IX, ll. 3113-3286). Outer half of last leaf, fol. 206, torn away irregularly, resulting in whole or partial loss of closing lines of text (Bk. X, ll. 3605-3618, 3621-3628); and nearly complete loss of Grenacres Envoy. Textual references are to Bergen's edition of 1923-7.

The Lay folks mass book; or, The manner of hearing mass, with rubrics and devotions for the people, in four texts, and office in English according to the use of York, from manuscripts of the Xth to the XVth century ( Book )
5 editions published between 1879 and 2008 in English and English, Middle and held by 262 libraries worldwide

The Bruce; or, The book of the most excellent and noble prince, Robert de Broyss, king of Scots by John Barbour ( Book )
11 editions published between 1870 and 1966 in English and Scots and held by 254 libraries worldwide

The historical collections of a citizen of London in the fifteenth century by James Gairdner ( Book )
8 editions published between 1876 and 1965 in English and held by 249 libraries worldwide

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