Download or read book Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation written by Nicholas Watson and published by Middle Ages. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balaam's Ass attempts the first comprehensive overview of religious writing in early England's vernacular languages--Old English, Insular French, and Middle English--between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. In this first of three volumes, Watson focuses on the first generation of these writings, in Old English and early Middle English.