English Department - Medieval Literature
Reading List 2011-2012 – Medieval Literature
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Geoffrey of Monmouth, Parts 4, 6, & 7, The History of the Kings of Britain**
The Stanzaic Morte Arthur**
The Alliterative Morte Arthure**
Culhwch and Olwen (The Mabinogion)
A Dream of Rhonabwy (The Mabinogion)
The Spoils of Annwn in Wilhelm, James, ed. The Romance of Arthur, pp. 20-21.*
Gawain and the Green Knight
Marie de France, Lanval
Sir Thomas Malory, “Launcelot and Gwenyvere,” “The Deth of Arthur,” in Morte Darthur.
Secondary Works
Wilhelm, James J., Chs. I & II, The Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation. NY & London: Garland Publishing, 1994.**
Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman, Chapter One, “To Mend the Interrupted Sequence of Time”: The Narrative Logic of Medieval History,” in King Arthur and the Myth of History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009.**
*This and other primary works on the reading list can be found in the Wilhelm anthology as well as in independent editions. In addition to the Reading List above, you may wish to use the medieval works in translation contained in this anthology to answer the Medieval Literature question. However, be aware that the analytical commentary on those works in the anthology constitutes a secondary, not a primary work.
**On Reserve in Penrose Library.
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