Medieval Literature

English Department - Medieval Literature

 

Reading List  2009-2010 – Medieval Literature

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Old English 

            kennings **

            The Dream of the Rood

            The Seafarer 

Geoffrey Chaucer 

            The Canon’s Yoeman’s Prologue and Tale (from Canterbury Tales)

            The Manciple’s Prologue and Tale (from Canterbury Tales)

            Troilus and Criseyde

  The Pearl Poet 

            Pearl

            Gawain and the Green Knight 

Margery Kempe 

            Selections from The Book of Margery Kempe** 

Medieval Lyric* 

            I sing of a maiden

            Maiden in the mor lay

            Fowles in the frith

            Now goth sonne under wod 

The Wakefield Master 

            The Second Shepherd’s Play

            The Castle of Perseverance ** 

 

Secondary Works 

“Introduction,” and Chapter One: “The Argument of the Book: Medieval Writing and Modern theory,” in Jesse M. Gellrich, The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language theory, Mythology, and Fiction, (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1985) 17-50.** 

 

*Found in Middle English Lyrics, eds. Maxwell S. Luria and Richard L. Hoffman, (New York: Norton) 1974. 

** On reserve.