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    J.R.R. Tolkien wrote an essay in 1929 analyzing the 13th century Middle English treatise Ancrene Wisse and tract Hali Meiðhad, which provide guidance for anchoresses and discuss virginity. In this essay, Tolkien first introduced the concept of the AB language used in the texts. Later, Tolkien and another scholar edited a volume of the original texts for publication by the Early English Text Society in 1962.

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    J.R.R. Tolkien wrote an essay in 1929 analyzing the 13th century Middle English treatise Ancrene Wisse and tract Hali Meiðhad, which provide guidance for anchoresses and discuss virginity. In this essay, Tolkien first introduced the concept of the AB language used in the texts. Later, Tolkien and another scholar edited a volume of the original texts for publication by the Early English Text Society in 1962.

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    J.R.R. Tolkien wrote an essay in 1929 analyzing the 13th century Middle English treatise Ancrene Wisse and tract Hali Meiðhad, which provide guidance for anchoresses and discuss virginity. In this essay, Tolkien first introduced the concept of the AB language used in the texts. Later, Tolkien and another scholar edited a volume of the original texts for publication by the Early English Text Society in 1962.

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    Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meihad

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    "Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meihad" is a 1929 essay[1] by J. R. R. Tolkien on the thirteenth
    century Middle English treatise Ancrene Wisse ("The Anchoresses' Rule") and on the tract
    on virginity Hali Meihad ("Holy Maidenhood"). The essay has been called "the most
    perfect of Tolkien's academic pieces".[2]
    In this essay Tolkien first promulgated the AB language concept.
    Tolkien and Ker later (in 1962) edited a volume of the text for the Early English Text
    Society.[3]

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