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Group of Middle English texts From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The so-called Katherine Group is a group of five 13th-century Middle English texts composed by an anonymous author of the English West Midlands, in a variety of Middle English known as AB language.
The texts are all addressed to anchoresses (religious recluses) and praise the virtue of virginity.
All five texts are preserved in the manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 34. All except Hali Meiðhad are also in British Library, Royal 17 A XXVII. Additionally, British Library Cotton Titus D XVIII has Sawles Warde, Seinte Katherine and Hali Meiðhad.
The Katherine Group is similar in language and content to the Ancrene Wisse and the Wooing Group.[1]
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