Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad

"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 though not the best-known of Tolkien's academic pieces".^[2] Tolkien and Neil Ripley Ker later edited a volume of the text for the Early English Text Society.^[3]

References

^ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1929). "Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad". Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association (14): 104–126.
^ Shippey, Tom (2005) [1982]. The Road to Middle-Earth (Third ed.). HarperCollins. p. 45. ISBN 978-0261102750.
^ Tolkien, J. R. R.; Ker, N. R. Ker, eds. (1962). The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (Ancrene Wisse, Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 402. Oxford University Press; Early English Text Society. ISBN 0-19-722249-8.

J. R. R. Tolkien

- Bibliography
- Letters

Poetry
and songs

Songs for the Philologists (1936)
- "Bagme Bloma"
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953)
"A Walking Song" (1954)
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962)
- "Errantry"
- "Fastitocalon"
- "The Sea-Bell"
- "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late"
The Road Goes Ever On (1967)
Bilbo's Last Song (1974)
List of Tolkien's alliterative verse

Fiction

The Hobbit (1937)
"Leaf by Niggle" (1947)
The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945)
Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
The Lord of the Rings:
- The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
- The Two Towers (1954)
- The Return of the King (1955)
Tree and Leaf (1964)
The Tolkien Reader (1966)
Smith of Wootton Major (1967)

Posthumous
fiction

The Father Christmas Letters (1976)
The Silmarillion (1977)
Unfinished Tales (1980)
Mr. Bliss (1982)
The History of Middle-earth (1983–1996)
Roverandom (1998)
The Children of Húrin (2007)
The History of The Hobbit (2007)
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009)
The Fall of Arthur (2013)
The Story of Kullervo (2015)
Beren and Lúthien (2017)
The Fall of Gondolin (2018)
The Nature of Middle-earth (2021)
The Fall of Númenor (2022)

Academic
works

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925)
"The Devil's Coach Horses" (1925)
"Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad" (1929)
"Sigelwara Land" (1932–34)
"Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale" (1934)
"Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936)
"On Fairy-Stories" (1939)
"On Translating Beowulf" (1940)
Sir Orfeo (1944)
Ancrene Wisse (1962)
"English and Welsh" (1963)
Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer, 1966)

Posthumous
academic

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (translations, 1975)
Exodus (1981)
Finn and Hengest (1982)
The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays (1983)
Beowulf and the Critics (2002)
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary with "Sellic Spell" (2014)
A Secret Vice (2016)

Scholars

Writers	Biographers Humphrey Carpenter John Garth Popular authors Lin Carter Robert Foster Glen GoodKnight J. E. A. Tyler
Christian	Stratford Caldecott Matthew T. Dickerson Colin Duriez Peter Kreeft Joseph Pearce Fleming Rutledge Ralph C. Wood
Literary critics	Douglas A. Anderson Nicholas Birns Bradley J. Birzer David Bratman Janet Brennan Croft Patrick Curry Bradford Lee Eden Dimitra Fimi Jason Fisher Verlyn Flieger Michael Foster Wayne G. Hammond Randel Helms Thomas Honegger Charles A. Huttar Paul H. Kocher Stuart D. Lee Jared Lobdell John D. Rateliff Robin Anne Reid Christina Scull Amy H. Sturgis Richard C. West
Linguists	Anthony Appleyard Helge Fauskanger Carl F. Hostetter Tom Loback David Salo Arden R. Smith
Medievalists	Marjorie Burns Jane Chance Michael D. C. Drout Gergely Nagy Tom Shippey Elizabeth Solopova Sandra Ballif Straubhaar