"The unknown author writes with a fresh and simple style, with a natural gift for description and character-drawing. It enjoyed for three centuries an immense popularity; almost at once it became available in Latin and French translations; it became a classic."
— Ancrene Wisse

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Austin Lane Poole From Domesday Book to Magna Carta, 1087-1216 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964) p. 253.

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