The Apocryphal Adam and Eve in Medieval Europe

Brian Murdoch is Professor Emeritus of German in the School of Languages, Cultures and Religions at the University of Stirling. He taught in Glasgow University and at the University of Illinois in Chicago before coming to Stirling in 1972. He has been Hulsean Lecturer in Divinity at Cambridge and Speaker's Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Oxford, and gave the Waynflete Lectures at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has held Visiting Fellowships at Magdalen and Oriel in Oxford and Trinity Hall in Cambridge. He has published books, editions and articles on the Adam-literature as found in Latin, German, English, Irish, Breton and Cornish, as well as other studies of biblical material, especially on the popular Bible in European vernaculars. He has also written books on Old High German, on Cornish literature, on the Germanic heroic epic, and on modern literature concerned with the world wars.

• 1. Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Adambooks, and the Vita Adae et Evae ; 2. Ireland ; 3. England, Wales, and Cornwall ; 4. The Holy Roman Empire and Beyond ; 5. France, Brittany, and Italy ; 6. Iconography ; 7. Litteras achiliachas: Conclusion ; 8. Appendix: An Overview of the Vernacular Texts ; Bibliography ; Index

Vita Adae et Evae and its offspring find their guide and historian in Professor Murdoch. He is an engaging one, but also thorough and hard-working. For decades to come, seekers of information on texts, sources, or variants will come to him. ... his work is something of a tour de force:ambitious, detailed, accurate.