Roberto Weiss, Humanism in England during the Fifteenth Century (4th edition), ed. David Rundle & A. J. Lappin

The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature first published Roberto Weiss's Humanism in England in 1941, with subsequent editions in 1957 and 1967. The author died in 1969 but, even forty years after his death, his first monograph remains an essential guide to its subject. The Society is now making it available on-line, in a new and updated edition.

The on-line edition, when complete, will present Weiss's text with his own addenda incorporated into the footnotes. In addition, it will have an introduction by David Rundle, new addenda providing updated bibliography, an appendix of previously unpublished original texts, and revised indices.

The volume will appear on-line in instalments, posted at regular intervals between October and December 2009. Each section will be supplied as pdf files, in two styles:

It is intended that the clean version should serve as the basis for a short print-run, anticipated for late 2010.

The files should be considered to be in pre-publication format. Scholars wishing to comment or provide further references are invited to contact the Society at its e-mail address. Feedback is also invited on readers' preferences in terms of presentation, as well as expressions of interest in purchasing a copy of the printed fourth edition.

For readers' convenience, a clean version pdf of Weiss's bibliography of secondary material and the abbreviations of works cited in the editorial addenda is also available to be consulted alongside the instalments.