Ormulum

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From the author’s name, Orm, modeled after Latin speculum (mirror),[1] so popular in the title of medieval Latin non-fiction works that the term speculum literature is used for the genre.

Proper noun[edit]

the Ormulum

  1. (historical, literature) A twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, whose author is a monk named Orm.

References[edit]

  1. ^ H. C. G. Matthew, Brian Harrison, editors (2004), The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, volume 41, Oxford, Oxon: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 936.