B.O. Murdoch is Professor of German at the University of Stirling. He has published widely on medieval and modern literature in German and Celtic, including Adam's Grace (Brewer, 2000) and The Germanic Hero (Hambledon, 1996). His main research interests include medieval literature in general (Germanic and also Celtic), especially religious literature; the Baroque; and the literature of the world wars, especially the writings of Erich Maria Remarque. J.A. Tasioulas is a Fellow in English at Newnham College, Cambridge and has written on Chaucer and medieval drama and edited The Makars (Canongate, 1999), a collection of the poems of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas.

… a well informed and carefully presented volume containing editions of the only two surviving Middle English texts in verse dealing with apocryphal lives of Adam and Eve … This volume serves to rescue two highly interesting vernacular texts … These two texts are well served by their modern editors, and the edition will probably be in use for as many generations as its predecessor.

• PrefaceIntroduction• The texts and their manuscripts• Dates and dialects• Metre• Sources and literary relationships• BibliographyTHE AUCHINLECK 'LIFE OF ADAM'THE 'CANTICUM DE CREATIONE'Notes on the PoemsGlossaryIndex of Persons and Places

B.O. Murdoch is Professor of German at the University of Stirling. He has published widely on medieval and modern literature in German and Celtic, including Adam's Grace (Brewer, 2000) and The Germanic Hero (Hambledon, 1996). His main research interests include medieval literature in general (Germanic and also Celtic), especially religious literature; the Baroque; and the literature of the world wars, especially the writings of Erich Maria Remarque. J.A. Tasioulas is a Fellow in English at Newnham College, Cambridge and has written on Chaucer and medieval drama and edited The Makars (Canongate, 1999), a collection of the poems of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas.

… a well informed and carefully presented volume containing editions of the only two surviving Middle English texts in verse dealing with apocryphal lives of Adam and Eve … This volume serves to rescue two highly interesting vernacular texts … These two texts are well served by their modern editors, and the edition will probably be in use for as many generations as its predecessor.

• PrefaceIntroduction• The texts and their manuscripts• Dates and dialects• Metre• Sources and literary relationships• BibliographyTHE AUCHINLECK 'LIFE OF ADAM'THE 'CANTICUM DE CREATIONE'Notes on the PoemsGlossaryIndex of Persons and Places

B.O. Murdoch is Professor of German at the University of Stirling. He has published widely on medieval and modern literature in German and Celtic, including Adam's Grace (Brewer, 2000) and The Germanic Hero (Hambledon, 1996). His main research interests include medieval literature in general (Germanic and also Celtic), especially religious literature; the Baroque; and the literature of the world wars, especially the writings of Erich Maria Remarque. J.A. Tasioulas is a Fellow in English at Newnham College, Cambridge and has written on Chaucer and medieval drama and edited The Makars (Canongate, 1999), a collection of the poems of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas.

… a well informed and carefully presented volume containing editions of the only two surviving Middle English texts in verse dealing with apocryphal lives of Adam and Eve … This volume serves to rescue two highly interesting vernacular texts … These two texts are well served by their modern editors, and the edition will probably be in use for as many generations as its predecessor.

• PrefaceIntroduction• The texts and their manuscripts• Dates and dialects• Metre• Sources and literary relationships• BibliographyTHE AUCHINLECK 'LIFE OF ADAM'THE 'CANTICUM DE CREATIONE'Notes on the PoemsGlossaryIndex of Persons and Places