Medieval Period Bibliography

Medieval Period Bibliography
General
Michael Alexander, A History of Old English Literature,
2 nd ed. 2002.
Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable, A History of the
English Language, 4 th ed., 1993.
Cordelia Beattie, The Medieval Household in Christian
Europe c. 850–1550: Managing Power, Wealth and
the Body, 2003.
Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy,
eds., Orlando: Women Writers in the British Isles from
the Beginnings to the Present, 2006.
James Campbell, ed., The Anglo-Saxons, 1981.
M.T. Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record:
England 1066–1307, 2 nd ed., 1993.
John Cox and David Scott Kastan, eds., A New History
of Early English Drama, 1997.
Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin
Middle Ages, 1953.
Wendy Davis, ed., The Short Oxford History of the
British Isles: From the Vikings to the Normans, 2003.
Carolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace, eds., The Cambridge
Companion to Medieval Women’s Writing,
2003.
Georges Duby, The Knight, The Lady, and the Priest:
The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France,
1983.
Georges Duby, The Three Orders: Feudal Society
Imagined, 1978.
Christopher Dyer, Making a Living in the Middle Ages:
The People of Britain 850–1520, 2002.
A.S.G. Edwards, ed., Middle English Prose: A Critical
Guide to Major Authors and Genres, 1984. [new ed.]
Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge, eds., The
Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature,
1991.
Matthew Boyd Goldie, ed., Middle English Literature: A
Historical Sourcebook, 2003.
Ralph Griffiths, ed., The Short Oxford History of the
British Isles: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,
2003.
Gordon Kipling, Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and
Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph, 1998.
Roberta L. Krueger, ed., The Cambridge Companion to
Medieval Romance, 2000.
Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes, and
Donald Scragg, eds., The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of
Anglo-Saxon England, 1999.
C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to
Medieval and Renaissance Literature, 1964.
Roger Sherman Loomis, Arthurian Literature in the
Middle Ages: A Collaborative History, 1959.
David Luscombe, ed., The New Cambridge Medieval
History, 2004.
Rosamond McKitterick, ed., The Uses of Literacy in
Early Medieval Europe, 1990.
Bruce Mitchell, An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-
Saxon England, 1995.
R.I. Moore, The First European Revolution, c. 970–1215,
2000.
Derek Pearsall, Old English and Middle English Poetry,
1977.
David A. E. Pelteret, ed., Anglo-Saxon History: Basic
Readings, 2000.
F.P. Pickering, Literature and Art in the Middle Ages,
1970.
Philip Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne, ed., A Companion
to Anglo-Saxon Literature, 2001.
Barbara H. Rosenwein, A Short History of the Middle
Ages, 2 nd ed., 2004.
Peter Speed, ed., Those Who Prayed: An Anthology of
Medieval Sources, 1997.
F.M. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England. 3 rd ed.,1971.
David Wallace, ed., The Cambridge History of Medieval
English Literature, 1999.
Michael Wood, Domesday: A Search for the Roots of
England, 1986.

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Ælfric of Eynsham
Text: For this anthology material has been newly
translated by R.M. Liuzza.
Editions:
Peter Clemoes, ed., Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies: The First
Series, Text, 1997.
S.J. Crawford, ed., The Old English Version of the
Hexateuch, Ælfric’s Treatise on the Old and New
Testament and his Preface to Genesis, 1922, 1969.
Malcolm Godden, ed., Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies:
Introduction, Commentary and Glossary, 2000.
Malcolm Godden, ed., Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies: the
Second Series. Text, 1979.
G.I. Needham, ed., Lives of Three English Saints: Ælfric,
rev. ed., 1976.
W.W. Skeat, Ælfric’s Lives of Saints: Being a Set of
Sermons on Saints’ Days Formerly Observed by the
English Church. reprint as two volumes, 1966.
Jonathan Wilcox, ed., Ælfric’s Prefaces, 1994.
Translations:
Carmen Acevedo Butcher, God of Mercy: Ælfric’s
Sermons and Theology, 2006.
Benjamin Thorpe, ed., The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon
Church: The First Part Containing the Sermones
Catholici or Homilies of Aelfric, 1844.
Bibliographies:
Aaron Kleist, “An Annotated Bibliography of Ælfrician
Studies: 1983–1996,” Old English Prose: Basic
Readings, ed. Paul E. Szarmach, 2000: 503–52.
Luke M. Reinsma, Ælfric: An Annotated Bibliography,
1987.
Studies:
Janet Bately, “The Nature of Old English Prose,” The
Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature, ed.
Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge, 1991: 71-
87.
Michael Benskin, “The Literary Structure of Ælfric’s
Life of King Edmund,” Loyal Letters: Studies on
Mediaeval Alliterative Poetry and Prose, ed. L.A.J.R.
Houwen and A.A. MacDonald, 1994: 1–27.
Peter A.M. Clemoes, “The Chronology of Ælfric’s
Works,” The Anglo-Saxons: Studies in Some Aspects of
their History and Culture Presented to Bruce Dickens,
ed. Peter A.M. Clemoes, 1959.
Milton McC Gatch, Preaching and Theology in Anglo-
Saxon England: Ælfric and Wulfstan, 1977.
M.R. Godden, “Ælfric and the Vernacular Prose
Tradition,” The Old English Homily and its Backgrounds,
ed. P. Szarmach and B. Huppé, 1978:
99–117.
M.R. Godden, “Experiments in Genre: the Saints’ Lives
in Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies,” Holy Men and Holy
Women: Old English Prose Saints’ Lives and their
Contexts, ed. Paul E. Szarmach, 1996: 261–87.
Antonia Gransden, “Abbo of Fleury’s Passio Sancti
Eadmundi,” Revue Bénédictine 105, 1995: 20–78, ill.
Mark Griffith, “Ælfric’s Preface to Genesis: Genre,
Rhetoric and the Origins of the Ars dictaminis,”
Anglo-Saxon England 29, 2000: 215–34.
Joyce Hill, “Reform and Resistance: Preaching Styles in
Late Anglo-Saxon England,” De l’homélie au sermon:
histoire de la prédication médiévale, ed. Jacqueline
Hamesse and Xavier Hermand, 1993: 15–46.
Bernard F. Huppé, “Alfred and Ælfric: a Study of Two
Prefaces,” The Old English Homily and its
Backgrounds, ed. P. Szarmach and B. Huppé, 1978:
119–37.
James R. Hurt, Ælfric, 1972.
Eric John, “The World of Abbot Ælfric,” Ideal and
Reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Society: Studies
Presented to J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, ed. Patrick
Wormald, with Donald Bullough and Roger
Collins, 1983: 300–16.
R.M. Liuzza, “Who Read the Gospels in Old English?”
Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English
Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C.
Robinson, ed. Nicholas Howe and Peter S. Baker,
1998: 3–24.
Richard Marsden, “Ælfric as Translator: the Old
English Prose Genesis,” Anglia 109, 1991: 319–58.
Robert Stanton, The Culture of Translation in Anglo-
Saxon England, , 2002.
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, “The Hero in Christian
Reception: Ælfric and Heroic Poetry,” La funzione
dell’eroe germanico: storicità, metafora, paradigma.

Atti del Convegno internazionale di studio, Roma, 6–8
maggio 1993, ed. Teresa Pàroli, 1995: 323–46.
Alfred the Great
Text: For this anthology the Sweet translation from
the Old English has been used.
Editions:
Carolin Schreiber, King Alfred’s Old English Translation
of Pope Gregory the Great’s ‘Regula Pastoralis’ and its
Cultural Context, 2002.
Henry Sweet, ed. and trans., King Alfred’s West-Saxon
Version of Gregory’s Pastoral Care, 1871.
Bibliographies:
Nicole Guenther Discenza, “Alfred the Great: a
Bibliography with Special Reference to Literature,”
Old English Prose: Basic Readings, ed. Paul E. Szarmach,
2000.
Gregory Waite, Old English Prose Translations of King
Alfred’s Reign, 2000.
Criticism:
Richard Abels, Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and
Culture in Anglo-Saxon England, 1998.
Janet M. Bately, The Literary Prose of King Alfred’s
Reign: Translation or Transformation?, 1980.
Kathleen Davis, “The Performance of Translation
Theory in King Alfred’s National Literary Program,”
Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon: Essays on Literary
and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F.
Bolton, ed. Robert Boenig and Kathleen David,
2000: 149–70.
Nicole Guenther Discenza, “Wealth and Wisdom:
Symbolic Capital and the Ruler in the Transnational
Program of Alfred the Great,” Exemplaria 13, 2001:
433–67.
Sarah Foot, “The Making of Angelcynn: English Identity
Before the Norman Conquest,” Old English
Literature: Critical Essays, ed. M.J. Toswell, 2002:
51–78.
Allen J. Frantzen, King Alfred, 1986.
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M.R. Godden, “King Alfred’s Preface and the Teaching
of Latin in Anglo-Saxon England,” English History
Review 117, 2002: 596–604.
Bernard F. Huppé, “Alfred and Ælfric: a Study of Two
Prefaces,” The Old English Homily and its
Backgrounds, ed. P. Szarmach and B. Huppé, 1978:
119–37.
Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge, trans., Alfred the
Great: Asser’s ‘Life of King Alfred’ and Other
Contemporary Sources, 1983.
Jennifer Morrish, “King Alfred’s Letter as a Source on
Learning in England in the Ninth Century,” Studies in
Earlier Old English Prose, ed. Paul E. Szarmach, 1986:
87–107.
E.G. Stanley, “King Alfred’s Prefaces,” Review of English
Studies 39, 1988: 349–64.
Paul E. Szarmach, “The Meaning of Alfred’s Preface to
the Pastoral Care,” Mediaevalia 6, 1982: 57–86.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Text: The text prepared by R.M. Liuzza for this volume
draws on various manuscripts: most entries follow the
text of the Peterborough Chronicle (known to
scholars as E) or the Winchester Text (A). The translation
draws heavily on those by Ingram and Giles;
the Swanton Translation has also been consulted.
Editions and translations:
Janet M. Bately, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: MS A,
1986.
J.A. Giles, ed. and trans., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,
1847.
James Ingram, ed. and trans., The Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle, 1823.
Michael Swanton, ed. and trans., The Anglo-Saxon
Chronicles, rev. ed., 2000.
Criticism:
Janet M. Bately, “Manuscript Layout and the Anglo-
Saxon Chronicle,” Bulletin of the John Rylands
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Janet M. Bately, “The Compilation of the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle, 60 BC to AD 890: Vocabulary as
Evidence,” Proceedings of the British Academy 64,
1980: 93–129.
Janet M. Bately, “The Compilation of the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle Once More,” Sources and Relations: Studies
in Honour of J. E. Cross, ed. Marie Collins, Jocelyn
Price, and Andrew Hamer, 1985: 7–26.
Thomas A. Bredehoft, Textual Histories: Readings in the
“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,” 2001.
David Dumville, “What is a Chronicle?” The Medieval
Chronicle II: Proceedings of the 2nd International
Conference on the Medieval Chronicle Driebergen /
Utrecht 16–21 July 1999, ed. Erik Kooper, 2002:
1–27.
Sarah Foot, “Remembering, Forgetting and Inventing:
Attitudes to the Past in England at the End of the
First Viking Age,” Transactions of the Royal Histical
Society, 1999: 185–200.
Antonia Gransden, Historical Writing in England, c. 550
–1307, 1974.
Kenneth Harrison, “Early Wessex Annals in the Anglo-
Saxon Chronicle,” English Historical Review, 86,
1971: 527–33.
Richard P. Horvath, “History, Narrative, and the
Ideological Mode of The Peterborough Chronicle,”
Mediaevalia 17, 1994: 123–48.
Nicholas Howe, “An Angle on This Earth: Sense of
Place in Anglo-Saxon England,” Bull. of the John
Rylands Univ. Lib. of Manchester 82, 2000: 3–27.
Anton Scharer, “The Writing of History at King
Alfred’s Court,” Early Medieval Europe, 1996:
177–206.
Alice Sheppard, Families of the King: Writing Identity in
the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 2004.
The Battle of Maldon
Text: The poem has been newly translated by R.M.
Liuzza for this anthology.
Editions:
E.V. Gordon, ed., The Battle of Maldon, rev. ed., 1976.
D.G., Scragg, ed., The Battle of Maldon, 1981.
Bibliography:
Wendy E.J. Collier, “A Bibliography of the Battle of
Maldon,” The Battle of Maldon, AD 991, ed. Donald
Scragg, 1991: 294–301. Also online at
Criticism:
W.G. Busse, and R. Holtei, “The Battle of Maldon: A
Historical, Heroic and Political Poem,”
Neophilologus 65, 1981: 614–21.
Christopher M. Cain, “The ‘Fearful Symmetry’ of
Maldon: The Apocalypse, the Poet, and the
Millennium,” Comitatus 28, 1997: 1–16.
Janet Cooper, ed., The Battle of Maldon: Fiction and
Fact, 1993.
Craig R. Davis, “Cultural Historicity in The Battle of
Maldon,” Philological Quarterly 78, 1999: 151–69.
Paul Dean, “History Versus Poetry: The Battle of
Maldon,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 93, 1992:
99–108.
Roberta Frank, “The Battle of Maldon and Heroic
Literature,” The Battle of Maldon, AD 991, ed.
Donald Scragg, 1991: 196–207.
Roberta Frank, “The Ideal of Men Dying with their
Lord in The Battle of Maldon: Anachronism or
nouvelle vague?” People and Places in Northern Europe
500–1600: Essays in Honour of Peter Hayes Sawyer,
ed. Ian Wood and Niels Lund, 1991: 95–106.
John M. Hill, “Transcendental Loyalty in The Battle of
Maldon,” Mediaevalia 17, 1994: 67–88.
John M. Hill, The Anglo-Saxon Warrior Ethic: Reconstructing
Lordship in Early English Literature, 2000.
Simon Keynes, “The Historical Context of the Battle of
Maldon,” The Battle of Maldon AD 991, ed. Donald
Scragg, 1991: 81–113.
John D. Niles, “Maldon and Mythopoesis,” Mediaevalia
17, 1994: 89–121.
Mary P. Richards, “The Battle of Maldon in its
Manuscript Context,” Mediaevalia 7, 1984: 79–89.
Fred C. Robinson, “God, Death, and Loyalty in The
Battle of Maldon,” J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and
Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam, ed. Mary Salu and
Robert T. Farrell, 1979: 76–98.
Fred C. Robinson, “Some Aspects of the Maldon Poet’s

Artistry,” Journal of English and Germanic Poetry 75,
1976: 25–40.
Donald Scragg, ed., The Battle of Maldon AD 991,
1991.
Rosemary Woolf, “The Ideal of Men Dying with their
Lord in the Germania and in The Battle of Maldon,”
Anglo-Saxon England 5, 1976: 63–81.
Bede’s Ecclesiastical History and Cædmon’s Hymn
Text: Selections have been translated for this volume
from the Latin by R.M. Liuzza; previous translations
have been consulted.
Editions:
Bertram Colgrave and R.A.B. Mynors, eds. and trans.,
Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People, 1969.
Daniel O’Donnell, Cædmon’s Hymn: A Multi-media
Study, Edition and Archive, 2005. [book + CD-
ROM.]
Translations:
J.A. Giles ed., L. Stevens, trans., with notes by L.C.
Jane, Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English
Nation, 1910.
Leo Sherley-Price and D.H. Farmer, trans., Bede.
Ecclesiastical History of the English People, with Bede’s
Letter to Egbert and Cuthbert’s Letter on the Death of
Bede, rev. ed., 1990.
Criticism:
Peter Hunter Blair, Northumbria in the Days of Bede,
1976.
Peter Hunter Blair, The World of Bede, rev. ed., 1990.
George Hardin Brown, “The Age of Bede,” Anglo-Latin
in the Context of Old English Literature, ed. Paul E.
Szarmach, 1983: 1–6.
George Hardin Brown, Bede the Venerable, 1987.
George Hardin Brown, “Royal and Ecclesiastical
Rivalries in Bede’s History,” Renascence 52.1, 1999:
19–33.
Paul Cavill, “Bede and Cædmon’s Hymn,” “Lastworda
Betst”: Essays in Memory of Christine E. Fell with Her
Unpublished Writings, ed. Carole Hough and
Medieval Period Bibliography 5
Kathryn A. Lowe, 2002.
Walter Goffart, The Narrators of Barbarian History
(A.D. 550–800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede,
and Paul the Deacon, 1988.
Jane Hawkes, The Golden Age of Northumbria, 1996.
N.J. Higham, An English Empire: Bede and the Early
Anglo-Saxon Kings, 1995.
N.J. Higham, The Convert Kings: Power and Religious
Affiliation in Early Anglo-Saxon England, 1997.
Kevin S. Kiernan, “Reading Cædmon’s ‘Hymn’ with
Someone Else’s Glosses,” Old English Literature:
Critical Essays, ed. R.M. Liuzza, 2002: 103–24.
Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing, “Birthing Bishops
and Fathering Poets: Bede, Hild, and the Relations
of Cultural Production,” Exemplaria 6, 1994:
35–65.
Henry Mayr-Harting, The Coming of Christianity to
Anglo-Saxon England, 3 rd ed., 1991.
Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, “Orality and the Developing
Text of Cædmon’s Hymn,” Speculum 62, 1987:
1–20.
Andy Orchard, “Poetic Inspiration and Prosaic Translation:
The Making of Cædmon’s Hymn,” Studies in
English Language and Literature: “Doubt Wisely”:
Papers in Honour of E. G. Stanley, ed. M.J. Toswell
and E.M. Tyler, 1996: 402–22.
P.R. Orton, “Cædmon and Christian Poetry,” Neuphilologische
Mitteilungen 84, 1983: 163–10.
Robert W. Hanning, The Vision of History in Early
Britain, 1966.
Joel T. Rosenthal, “Bede’s Use of Miracles in The
Ecclesiastical History,” Traditio 31, 1975: 328–35.
J.M. Wallace-Hadrill, Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the
English People: a Historical Commentary, 1988.
Benedicta Ward, “Miracles and History: A Reconsideration
of the Miracle Stories Used by Bede,”
Famulus Christi: Essays in Commemoration of the
Thirteenth Centenary of the Birth of the Venerable
Bede, ed. Gerald Bonner, 1976: 70–76.
Benedicta Ward, The Venerable Bede, rev. ed., 1998.
Patrick Wormald, “Bede, Beowulf and the Conversion
of the Anglo-Saxon Aristocracy,” Bede and Anglo-
Saxon England: Papers in Honour of the 1300th
Anniversary of the Birth of Bede, Given at Cornell
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Patrick Wormald, “Bede, the Bretwaldas and the
Origins of the Gens Anglorum,” Ideal and Reality in
Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Society: Studies Presented
to J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, ed. Patrick Wormald,
1983.
Beowulf
Text: The translation used is that of R.M. Liuzza.
Editions:
George Jack, ed., “Beowulf”: A Student Edition, rev. ed.,
1997.
Kevin Kiernan, Andrew Prescott, et al. Electronic
“Beowulf,” 1999. [2 CD-ROMs.]
Friedrich Klaeber, Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh,
3 rd ed., 1950.
Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson, eds., “Beowulf”:
An Edition with Relevant Shorter Texts, 1998.
C.L. Wrenn, ed., Beowulf: With the Finnesburg
Fragment, rev. ed., 1973.
Translations:
Michael Alexander, trans., Beowulf: A Verse Translation,
2001.
Howell D. Chickering, trans., Beowulf: A Dual-
Language Edition, 2006.
Stanley B. Greenfield, trans., A Readable “Beowulf”: The
Old English Epic Newly Translated, 1982.
Seamus Heaney, trans., Beowulf, 1999.
Marc Hudson, ed. and trans., “Beowulf”: A Translation
and Commentary, 1990.
Roy Liuzza, ed. and trans., Beowulf, 1999.
Randolph Swearer, Raymond Oliver, and Marijane
Osborn, trans., Beowulf: A Likeness, 1990.
Bibliographies:
Robert J. Hasenfratz, “Beowulf” Scholarship: An Annotated
Bibliography, 1979–1990, 1993.
Douglas D. Short, “Beowulf” Scholarship: An Annotated
Bibliography, 1980.
Criticism:
Peter S. Baker, ed., The Beowulf Reader, 1995.
Robert E. Bjork, and John Niles, ed., A Beowulf
Handbook, 1997.
Colin Chase, ed., The Dating of Beowulf, rev. ed., 1997.
James W. Earl, Thinking About “Beowulf,” 1994.
Roberta Frank, “The Beowulf Poet’s Sense of History,”
The Wisdom of Poetry: Essays in Early English Literature
in Honor of Morton W. Bloomfield, ed. Larry D.
Benson and Siegfried Wenzel, 1982: 53–65, 271–77.
R.D. Fulk, ed., Interpretations of “Beowulf”: A Critical
Anthology, 1991.
Robert W. Hanning, “Beowulf as Heroic History,”
Medievalia et Humanistica 5, 1974: 77–102.
Kevin S. Kiernan, “Beowulf” and the “Beowulf” Manuscript,
rev. ed., 1996.
R.M. Liuzza, “Beowulf: Monuments, Memory,
History,” Readings in Medieval Texts: Interpreting
Old and Middle English Literature, ed. Elaine
Treharne and David Johnson, 2005: 91–108.
J.D. Niles, Beowulf: The Poem and its Tradition, 1983.
Andy Orchard, A Critical Companion to “Beowulf,”
2003.
Gillian R. Overing, Language, Sign, and Gender in
“Beowulf,” 1990.
Fred C. Robinson, “Beowulf” and the Appositive Style,
1985.
T.A. Shipping, Beowulf, 1978.
The Blickling Homilies
Text: The translation used in this anthology, by R.M.
Liuzza, is adapted from that of R. Morris.
Editions and translations:
Richard J. Kelly, ed., The Blickling Homilies, 2003.
R. Morris, ed. The Blickling Homilies, 1874–80.
Rudolph Willard, The Blickling Homilies: The John H.
Scheide Library, Titusville, Pennsylvania, 1960.
Bibliographies:
Janet M. Bately, Anonymous Old English Homilies: A
Preliminary Bibliography of Source Studies, 1993. Alo
online at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/
rawl/homilies/home.htm.

Criticism:
Robin Ann Aronstam, “The Blickling Homilies: a
Reflection of Popular Anglo-Saxon Belief,” Law,
Church, and Society: Essays in Honor of Stephan
Kuttner, ed. Kenneth Pennington and Robert
Somerville, 1977: 271–80.
J.E. Cross, “Vernacular Sermons in Old English,” The
Sermon, ed. Beverly Mayne Kienzle, 2000: 561–96.
Marcia A. Dalbey, “Themes and Techniques in the
Blickling Lenten Homilies,” The Old English Homily
and its Backgrounds, ed. P. Szarmach and B. Huppé,
1978: 221–39.
Julia Dietrich, “The Liturgical Context of Blickling
Homily X,” American Notes and Queries 18, 1980:
138–39.
Robert DiNapoli, An Index of Theme and Image to the
Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church, 1995.
Milton McC. Gatch, “The Unknowable Audience of
the Blickling Homilies,” Anglo-Saxon England 18,
1989: 99–115.
Joyce Hill, “Monastic Reform and the Secular Church,”
England in the Eleventh Century: Proceedings of the
1990 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. Carola Hicks, 1992:
103–17.
J. Elizabeth Jeffrey, Blickling Spirituality and the Old
English Vernacular Homily: A Textual Analysis, 1989.
D.R. Letson, “The Form of the Old English Homily,”
American Benedictine Review 30, 1979: 399–431.
Alex Nicholls, “The Corpus of Prose Saints’ Lives and
Hagiographic Pieces in Old English and its
Manuscript Distribution,” Reading Medieval Studies
20, 1994: 51–87.
Alexandra Olsen, “The Homiletic Tradition in Old
English,” In Geardagum 18, 1997: 1–13.
Ingrid Ranum, “Blickling Homily X and the Millennial
Apocalyptic Vision,” In Geardagum 19, 1998:
41–49.
D.G. Scragg, “The Corpus of Vernacular Homilies and
Prose Saints’ Lives Before Ælfric,” Anglo-Saxon
England 8, 1979: 223–77.
D.G. Scragg, “The Homilies of the Blickling
Manuscript,” Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon
England: Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the
Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, ed. Michael
Lapidge and Helmut Gneuss, 1985: 299–316.
Medieval Period Bibliography 7
D.G. Scragg, Dating and Style in Old English Composite
Homilies, 1999.
Paul E.Szarmach and Bernard F. Huppé, eds., The Old
English Homily and its Backgrounds, 1978.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Text: This anthology uses text and notes prepared by
Robert Boenig and Andrew Taylor for their
forthcoming Broadview edition. Boenig and Taylor
work mainly from the Ellesmere but they draw
attention in their notes to significant variants.
Editions:
Robert Boeing and Andrew Taylor, eds., The Canterbury
Tales, 2007.
A.C. Cawley, ed., The Canterbury Tales, 1991.
Larry D. Benson et al., eds., The Riverside Chaucer,
1987.
E. Talbot Donaldson, ed., Chaucer’s Poetry: An Anthology
for the Modern Reader, 1958.
Paul G. Ruggiers and Donald M. Rose, eds., The
Facsimile Series of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer,
1980–87.
Biographies:
Derek Brewer, Chaucer in his Time, 1964.
Derek Pearsall, The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical
Biography, 1992.
Velma Bourgeois Richmond, Geoffrey Chaucer, 1992.
Criticism:
Piero Boitani, ed., The Cambridge Chaucer Companion,
1986.
Helen Cooper, ed., The Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The
Canterbury Tales, 2 nd ed., 1996.
Carolyn Dinshaw, Chaucer’s Sexual Poetics, 1989.
Steve Ellis, ed., Chaucer: An Oxford Guide, 2005.
Douglas Gray, ed., The Oxford Companion to Chaucer,
2003.
Seth Lerer, ed., The Yale Companion to Chaucer, 2006.
Lee Patterson, Chaucer and the Subject of History, 1991.
Derek Pearsall, ed., The Canterbury Tales, 1985.

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D.W. Robertson, A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in
Medieval Perspectives, 1962.
Beryl Rowland, ed., Companion to Chaucer Studies,
1979.
Paul Strohm, Social Chaucer, 1989.
Contexts: The Crises of the Fourteenth Century
John Alberth, From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting
Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later
Middle Ages, 2001.
C.T. Allmand, ed., War, Literature, and Politics in the
Late Middle Ages, 1976.
Emilie Amt, ed., Medieval England, 1000–1500: A
Reader, 2000.
Norman F. Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague: The Black
Death and the World it Made, 2001.
Ivy Corfis and Michael Wolfe, eds., The Medieval City
Under Siege, 1995.
Patrick Geary, ed., Readings in Medieval History, 3 rd ed.,
2003.
Ralph Griffiths, ed., The Short Oxford History of the
British Isles: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,
2003.
R. Horrox, ed., The Black Death, 1994.
Maurice Hugh Keen, ed., Medieval Warfare: A History,
1999.
John Kelly, The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of
the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of all
Time, 2005.
Maryanne Kowaleski, ed., Medieval Towns: A Reader,
2006.
Barbara Rosenwein, A Short History of the Middle Ages,
2 nd ed., 2004.
John Shinners, ed., Medieval Popular Religion,
1000–1500: A Reader, 1997.
Brian Tierney, ed., Sources of Medieval History, 5 th ed.,
1992.
Ronald Webber, The Peasants’ Revolts: The Uprising in
Kent, Essex, East Anglia and London in 1381 During
the Reign of King Richard II, 1980.
Contexts: Love and Marriage in Medieval Britain
Emilie Amt, ed., Medieval England, 1000–1500: A
Reader, 2000.
D.L. d’Avray, Medieval Marriage: Symbolism and Society,
2005.
Cristelle Baskins and Sherry Roush, eds., The Medieval
Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy, 2005.
Christopher Brooke, The Medieval Idea of Marriage,
1989.
J.D. Burnley, Courtliness and Literature in Medieval
England, 1998.
Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love, trans. and
ed., John Jay Perry, rev. ed., 1990.
Albrecht Classen, ed., Discourses on Love, Marriage, and
Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern
Literature, 2004.
Denis De Rougemont, trans. M. Belgion, Love in the
Western World, 1983.
Patrick Geary, ed., Readings in Medieval History, 3 rd ed.,
2003.
Ruth Mazo Karras, Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing
unto Others, 2005.
Conor McCarthy, Marriage in Medieval England: Law,
Literature and Practice, 2004.
Linda Mitchell, Portraits of Medieval Women: Family,
Marriage, and Politics in England 1225–1350, 2003.
Jacqueline Murray, ed., Love, Marriage, and Family in
the Middle Ages: A Reader, 2001.
Carol Neel, ed., Medieval Families: Perspectives on
Marriage, Household, and Children, 2004.
Frederik Pedersen, Marriage Disputes in Medieval
England, 2000.
Pamela Porter, Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts,
2003.
Philip Reynolds, Marriage in the Western Church: The
Christianization of Marriage During the Patristic and
Early Medieval Periods, 2001.
Barbara Rosenwein, A Short History of the Middle Ages,
2 nd ed., 2004.

Contexts: Religious and Spiritual Life
Emilie Amt, ed., Medieval England, 1000–1500: A
Reader, 2000.
Malcolm Barber, The Two Cities: Medieval Europe,
1050–1320, 1993.
Constance H. Berman, ed., Medieval Religion: New
Approaches, 2005.
Nancy Caciola, Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic
Possession in the Middle Ages, 2003.
Theresa Coletti, Mary Magdalene and the Drama of
Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late
Medieval England, 2004.
Patrick Geary, ed., Readings in Medieval History, 3 rd ed.,
2003.
Bernard Hamilton, Religion in the Medieval West, 2003.
Ione Kempe Knight, ed., Wimbledon’s Sermon: Redde
Rationem Villicationis Tue: A Middle English Sermon
of the Fourteenth Century, 1967.
Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie, Montaillou: The Promised
Land of Error, trans. B. Bray 1979.
Gordon Leffe, Heresy, Philosophy and Religion in the
Medieval West, 2002.
Jacques LeGoff, The Birth of Purgatory, trans. A.
Goldhammer, 1984.
Carter Lindberg, A Brief History of Christianity, 2006.
Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, ed., The Invention of Saintliness,
2002.
Barbara Newman, From Virile Woman to WomanChrist:
Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature, 1995.
Barbara Rosenwein, A Short History of the Middle Ages,
2 nd ed., 2004.
John Shinners, ed., Medieval Popular Religion, 1000–
1500: A Reader, 1997.
May-Ann Stouck, ed., Medieval Saints: A Reader, 1998.
Diana Wood, ed., Women and Religion in Medieval
England, 2003.
The Cotton Maxims (also known as Maxims II
and as Gnomic Verses )
Text: The translation used is that of Elliot Von Kirk
Dobbie.
Medieval Period Bibliography 9
Editions and translations:
J.K. Bollard, “The Cotton Maxims,” Neophilologus 57,
1973: 179–87.
Elliot Van Kirk Dobbie, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Minor
Poems, 1942.
Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, ed. The Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, Vol. 5, 2001.
Michael Alexander, ed. and trans., The Earliest English
Poems, 3 rd ed., 1992.
Bibliography:
Russell Poole, Old English Wisdom Poetry, Annotated
Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature 5,
1998: 204–233.
Criticism:
Nigel F. Barley, “Structure in the Cotton Gnomes,”
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 78, 1977: 244–49.
J.K. Bollard, “The Cotton Maxims,” Neophilologus 57,
1973: 179–87.
Stanley B. Greenfield and Richard Evert, “Maxims II:
Gnome and Poem,” Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Essays in
Appreciation, For John C. McGalliard, ed. Lewis E.
Nicholson and Dolores Warwick Frese, 1975: 337–54.
Elaine Tuttle Hansen, The Solomon Complex: Reading
Wisdom in Old English Poetry, 1988.
Thomas D. Hill, “Notes on the Old English ‘Maxims’ I
and II,” Notes and Queries 215, 1970: 445–47.
Nicholas Howe, The Old English Catalogue Poems, 1985.
Carolyne Larrington, A Store of Common Sense: Gnomic
Theme and Style in Old Icelandic and Old English
Wisdom Poetry, 1993.
Audrey L. Meaney, “The ides of the Cotton Gnomic
Poem,” Medium Ævum 48, 1979: 23–39.
Fred C. Robinson, “Old English Literature in its Most
Immediate Context,” Old English Literature in
Context, ed. J.D. Niles, 1980: 11–29.
Fred C. Robinson, “Understanding an Old English
Wisdom Verse: Maxims II, Lines 10ff,” The Wisdom
of Poetry: Essays in Early English Literature in Honor
of Morton W. Bloomfield, ed. Larry D. Benson and
Siegfried Wenzel, 1982: 1–11.
Leslie Whitbread, “Two Notes on Minor Old English
Poems,” Studia Neophilologica 20, 1948: 192–98.

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The Dream of the Rood
Texts: The poem has been newly translated for this
anthology by R.M. Liuzza.
Editions:
George P. Krapp, ed., The Vercelli Book, 1932.
Michael Swanton, ed., The Dream of the Rood, rev. ed.,
1996.
Criticism:
Earl R. Anderson, “Liturgical Influence in The Dream of
the Rood,” Neophilologus 73, 1989: 293–304.
Mary Dockray-Miller, “The Feminized Cross of The
Dream of the Rood,” Philological Quarterly 76, 1997:
1–18.
Andrew Galloway, “Dream-Theory in The Dream of the
Rood and The Wanderer,” Review of English Studies
45, 1994: 475–85.
Antonina Harbus, “Dream and Symbol in The Dream
of the Rood,” Nottingham Medieval Studies 40, 1996:
1–15.
Julia Bolton Holloway, “‘The Dream of the Rood’ and
Liturgical Drama,” Drama in the Middle Ages:
Comparative and Critical Essays, eds. Clifford
Davidson and John H. Stroupe, 1991: 24–42.
A.D. Horgan, “The Dream of the Rood and Christian
Tradition,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 79, 1978:
11–20.
Martin Irvine, “Anglo-Saxon Literary Theory Exemplified
in Old English Poems: Interpreting the Cross
in The Dream of the Rood and Elene,” Style 20, 1986:
157–81.
Edward B. Irving, Jr., “Crucifixion Witnessed, or
Dramatic Interaction in The Dream of the Rood,”
Modes of Interpretation in Old English Literature:
Essays in Honour of Stanley B. Greenfield, ed. Phyllis
Rugg Brown, Georgia Ronan Crampton, and Fred
C. Robinson, 1986: 101–13.
Margaret Jennings, “Rood and Ruthwell: The Power of
Paradox,” English Language Notes 31, 1994: 6–12.
David F. Johnson, “Old English Religious Poetry:
Christ and Satan and The Dream of the Rood,”
Companion to Old English Poetry, ed. Henk Aertsen
and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr., 1994: 159–87.
Alvin A. Lee, “Toward a Critique of The Dream of the
Rood,” Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Essays in Appreciation,
For John C. McGalliard, ed. Lewis E. Nicholson and
Dolores Warwick Frese, 1975: 163–91.
Sandra McEntire, “The Devotional Context of the
Cross before A. D. 1000,” Sources of Anglo-Saxon
Culture, ed. Paul E. Szarmach, 1986: 345–56.
Éamonn Ó’Carrigáin, “Crucifixion as Annunciation:
The Relation of The Dream of the Rood to the
Liturgy Reconsidered,” English Studies 63, 1982:
487–505.
Éamonn Ó Carragáin, “How Did the Vercelli Collector
Interpret The Dream of the Rood?” Studies in English
Language and Early Literature in Honour of Paul
Christophersen, ed. P. M. Tilling, 1981: 63–104.
Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Ritual and the Rood: Liturgical
Images and the Old English Poems of the Dream of the
Rood Tradition, 2005.
Carol Braun Pasternack, “Stylistic Disjunctions in The
Dream of the Rood,” Anglo-Saxon England 13, 1984:
167–86.
Everyman
Text: Like all modern editions, the text here derives
from the earliest printed text of the play (early
sixteenth century), as reproduced by W.W. Greg,
1904. Spelling and punctuation have been substantially
modernized.
Editions:
A.C. Cawley, ed., Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays,
1990.
Vincent Foster Hopper, ed., Medieval Mystery Plays:
Abraham and Issac, Noah’s Flood, The Second
Shepherd’s Play, Morality Plays, The Castle of
Perseverance, Everyman, and the Interludes, 1962.
Gerald E. Bentley, ed., The Development of Drama: An
Anthology, 1950.
David Bevington, ed., Medieval Drama, 1975.
Criticism:
Richard Beadle, ed., The Cambridge Companion to
Medieval English Theatre, 1994.

John Cunningham, “Comedic and Liturgical Restoration
in Everyman,” Drama in the Middle Ages:
Comparative and Critical Essays, Second Series, eds.
Clifford Davidson and John H. Stroupe, 1990.
W.A. Davenport, Fifteenth-Century English Drama: The
Early Moral Plays and their Literary Relations, 1982.
David Mills, “The Theaters of Everyman,” From Page to
Performance: Essays in Early English Drama, ed. John
A. Alfred, 1995.
Ron Tanner, “Humor in Everyman and the Middle
English Morality Play,” Philological Quarterly 70,
1991: 149–61.
Jerome Taylor, ed., Medieval English Drama: Essays
Critical and Contextual, 1972.
Zacharias P. Thundy, “Morality Plays: Mankind and
Everyman,” Old and Middle English Literature, eds.
Jeffrey Helterman and Jerome Mitchell, 1994:
400–04.
D. Jerry White, Early English Drama, Everyman to 1580:
A Reference Guide, 1986.
Exeter Book Elegies: The Wanderer, The Seafarer,
The Wife’s Lament, The Ruin
Text: The poems have been newly translated for this
anthology by R.M. Liuzza.
Editions:
Ida Gordon, ed., The Seafarer, reprint, 1979.
Anne L. Klinck, The Old English Elegies: a Critical
Edition and Genre Study, 1992.
R.F. Leslie, ed., Three Old English Elegies: “The Wife’s
Lament,” “The Husband’s Message,” “The Ruin,”
reprint 1988.
Roy F. Leslie, ed., The Wanderer, reprint, 1985.
Bernard J. Muir, ed., The Exeter Anthology of Old
English Poetry: An Edition of Exeter Dean and
Chapter MS 3501, 2 vols., 1994.
Bibliographies:
Juan C. Conde-Silvestre, “The Wanderer and The
Seafarer: A Bibliography 1971–1991,” SELIM 2,
1992: 170–86.
Bernard J. Muir, The Exeter Book: A Bibliography, 1992.
Medieval Period Bibliography 11
Criticism:
William Alfred, “The Drama of The Wanderer,” The
Wisdom of Poetry: Essays in Early English Literature in
Honor of Morton W. Bloomfield, ed. Larry D. Benson
and Siegfried Wenzel, 1982: 31–44.
Janet Bately, “Time and the Passing of Time in ‘The
Wanderer’ and Related OE Texts,” Essays and
Studies 37, 1984: 1–15.
Margrét Gunnarsdóttir Champion, “From Plaint to
Praise: Language as Cure in ‘The Wanderer,’” Studia
Neophilologica 69, 1997: 187–202.
Marilynn Desmond, “The Voice of Exile: Feminist
Literary History and the Anonymous Anglo-Saxon
Elegy,” Critical Inquiry 16, 1990: 572–90.
Fiona Gameson and Richard Gameson, “Wulf and
Eadwacer, The Wife’s Lament, and the Discovery of
the Individual in Old English Verse,” Studies in
English Language and Literature. “Doubt Wisely”:
Papers in Honour of E. G. Stanley, ed. M.J. Toswell
and E. M. Tyler, 1996: 457–74.
Martin Green, “Man, Time, and Apocalypse in The
Wanderer, The Seafarer, and Beowulf,” Journal of
English and Germanic Philology 74, 1975: 502–18.
Martin Green, ed., The Old English Elegies: New Essays
in Criticism and Research, 1983: 240.
Martin Green, “Time, Memory, and Elegy in The Wife’s
Lament,” The Old English Elegies: New Essays in
Criticism and Research, ed. Martin Green, 1983:
123–32.
Stanley B. Greenfield, “Sylf, Seasons, Structure and
Genre in The Seafarer,” Anglo-Saxon England 9,
1981: 199–211.
A.D. Horgan, “The Structure of The Seafarer,” Review
of English Studies 30, 1979: 41–49.
Shari Horner, “En/Closed Subjects: The Wife’s Lament
and the Culture of Early Medieval Female
Monasticism,” Æstel 2, 1994: 45–61.
Nicholas Howe, “The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon
England: Inherited, Invented, Imagined,” Inventing
Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western
Europe, ed. John Howe and Michael Wolfe, 2002:
91–112.
Kathryn Hume, “The ‘Ruin Motif’ in Old English
Poetry,” Anglia 94, 1976: 339–60.
W.F. Klein, “Purpose and the ‘Poetics’ of The Wanderer

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and The Seafarer,” Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Essays in
Appreciation, For John C. McGalliard, ed. Lewis E.
Nicholson and Dolores Warwick Frese, 1975: 208–
23.
Roy F. Leslie, “The Editing of Old English Poetic
Texts: Questions of Style,” Old English Poetry: Essays
on Style, ed. Daniel G. Calder, 1979: 111–25.
Roy F. Leslie, “The Meaning and Structure of The
Seafarer,” The Old English Elegies: New Essays in
Criticism and Research, ed. Martin Green, 1983:
96–122.
R.M. Liuzza, “The Tower of Babel: The Wanderer and
the Ruins of History,” Studies in the Literary
Imagination 36, 2003: 1–35
Karma Lochrie, “Wyrd and the Limits of Human
Understanding: A Thematic Sequence in the Exeter
Book,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 85,
1986: 323–31.
María José Mora, “The Invention of the Old English
Elegy,” English Studies 76, 1995: 129–39.
Andy Orchard, “Re-reading The Wanderer: The Value
of Cross-References,” Via Crucis: Essays on Early
Medieval Sources and Ideas in Memory of J.E. Cross,
ed. Thomas N. Hall, 2002: 1–26.
Peter Orton, “The Form and Structure of The Seafarer,”
Studia Neophilologica 63, 1991: 37–55.
Carol Braun Pasternack, “Anonymous Polyphony and
The Wanderer’s Textuality,” Anglo-Saxon England
20, 1991: 99–122.
Carol Braun Pasternack, The Textuality of Old English
Poetry, 1995.
Alain Renoir, “A Reading Context for The Wife’s
Lament,” Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Essays in Appreciation,
For John C. McGalliard, ed. Lewis E. Nicholson and
Dolores Warwick Frese, 1975: 224–41.
Gerald Richman, “Speaker and Speech Boundaries in
The Wanderer,” Journal of English and Germanic
Philology 81, 1982: 469–79.
Jane Roberts, “The Exeter Book: swa is lar 7 ar to
spowendre spræce gelæded,” Dutch Quarterly Review of
Anglo-American Letters 11, 1981: 302–19.
John L. Selzer, “The Wanderer and the Meditative
Tradition,” Studies in Philology 80, 1983: 227–37.
T.A. Shippey, “The Wanderer and The Seafarer as
Wisdom Poetry,” Companion to Old English Poetry,
ed. Henk Aertsen and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr., 1994:
145–58.
Barrie Ruth Straus, “Women’s Words as Weapons:
Speech as Action in ‘The Wife’s Lament,’” Texas
Studies in Literature and Language 23, 1981:
268–85.
Arnold V. Talentino, “Moral Irony in The Ruin,” Papers
on Language and Literature 14, 1978: 3–10.
Ruth Wehlau, “‘Seeds of Sorrow’: Landscapes of
Despair in The Wanderer, Beowulf’s Story of Hrethel
and Sonatorrek,” Parergon 15, 1998: 1–17.
Karl P. Wentersdorf, “The Situation of the Narrator in
the Old English Wife’s Lament,” Speculum 56, 1981:
492–516.
Rosemary Woolf, “The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and the
Genre of Planctus,” Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Essays in
Appreciation, For John C. McGalliard, ed. Lewis E.
Nicholson and Dolores Warwick Frese, 1975: 192–
207.
Exeter Book Riddles
Text: This anthology reprints the translations of Craig
Williamson.
Editions:
George P. Krapp and Elliot Van Kirk Dobbie, eds., The
Exeter Book, 1936.
Bernard Muir, ed., The Exeter Anthology of Old English
Poetry, 1994.
Craig Williamson, ed., The Old English Riddles of the
“Exeter Book,” 1977.
Translations:
Kevin Crossley-Holland, trans., The Exeter Book Riddles,
rev. ed., 1993.
Craig Williamson, ed., A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon
Riddle-Songs, 1982.
Criticism:
Edward B. Irving, Jr., “Heroic Experience in the Old
English Riddles,” Old English Shorter Poems: Basic
Readings, ed. Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, 1994:
199– 212.

Marie Nelson, “Four Social Functions of the Exeter
Book Riddles,” Neophilologus 75, 1991: 445–50.
Marie Nelson, “The Rhetoric of the Exeter Book
Riddles,” Speculum 49, 1974: 421–40.
John D. Niles, “Exeter Book Riddle 74 and the Play of
the Text,” Anglo-Saxon England 27, 1998: 169–207.
Peter Orton, “The Technique of Object-Personification
in The Dream of the Rood and a Comparison with
the Old English Riddles,” Leeds Studies in English
11, 1980: 1–18.
Fred C. Robinson, “Artful Ambiguities in the Old
English ‘Book-Moth’ Riddle,” Anglo-Saxon Poetry:
Essays in Appreciation, For John C. McGalliard, ed.
Lewis E. Nicholson and Dolores Warwick Frese,
1975: 355–62.
D.K. Smith, “Humor in Hiding: Laughter Between the
Sheets in the Exeter Book Riddles,” Humour in
Anglo-Saxon Literature, ed. Jonathan Wilcox, 2000:
79–98.
Exodus
Text: The poem has been newly translated for this
anthology by R.M. Liuzza.
Editions:
George Philip Krapp, ed., The Junius Manuscript,
Anglo–Saxon Poetic Records 1, 1931.
Peter J. Lucas, ed., Exodus, rev. ed., 1994.
Bernard James Muir, ed., A Digital Facsimile of Oxford,
Bodleian Library, MS. Junius 11, 2004.
J.R.R. Tolkien, trans., The Old English “Exodus,” ed. J.
Turville-Petre, 1981.
Translations:
Stanley B. Greenfield, trans., “Exodus,” Old English
Newsletter 21, 1987: 15–20.
Damian Love, “The Old English Exodus. A Verse
Translation,” Neophilologus 86, 2002: 621–39.
Criticism:
James Earl, “Christian Traditions in the Old English
Exodus,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 71, 1970:
541–70
Medieval Period Bibliography 13
Roberta Frank, “What Kind of Poetry Is Exodus?”
Germania: Comparative Studies in the Old Germanic
Languages and Literatures, ed. Daniel G. Calder and
T. Craig Christy, 1988: 191–205.
Brian Green, “The Mode and Meaning of the Old
English Exodus,” English Studies in Africa 24, 1981:
73–82.
Stanley R. Hauer, “The Patriarchal Digression in the
Old English Exodus, Lines 362–446,” Eight Anglo-
Saxon Studies, ed. J. Wittig, 1981: 77–90.
William Helder, “Abraham and the Old English
Exodus,” Companion to Old English Poetry, ed. Henk
Aertsen and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr., 1994. 189–200.
George Henderson, “The Programme of Illustrations in
Bodleian MS Junius XI,” Studies in Memory of
David Talbot Rice, ed. Giles Robertson and George
Henderson, 1975: 113–45, ill.
Nicholas Howe, Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-
Saxon England, 1989.
Rosemary Huisman, “Anglo-Saxon Interpretative
Practices and the First Seven Lines of the Old
English Poem Exodus: the Benefits of Close
Reading,” Parergon 10, 1992: 51–57.
Catherine E. Karkov, Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon
England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11
Manuscript, 2001.
Steven F. Kruger, “Oppositions and their Opposition in
the Old English Exodus,” Neophilologus 78, 1994:
165–70.
R.M. Liuzza, ed., The Poems of MS Junius 11: Basic
Readings, 2002.
Leslie Lockett, “An Integrated Re-examination of the
Dating of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11,”
Anglo-Saxon England 31, 2002: 141–73.
Phyllis Portnoy, “Ring Composition and the Digressions
of Exodus: The ‘Legacy’ of the ‘Remnant’.”
English Studies 82, 2001: 289–307.
Barbara C. Raw, “The Construction of Oxford,
Bodleian Library, Junius 11,” Anglo-Saxon England
13, 1984: 187–207
Paul G. Remley, Old English Biblical Verse: Studies in
“Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel,” 1996.
E.G. Stanley, “Notes on the Text of Exodus,” Sources
and Relations: Studies in Honour of J. E. Cross, ed.

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Marie Collins, Jocelyn Price, and Andrew Hamer,
1985: 240–45.
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Text: For this anthology the Sebastian Evans translation
is used; we anticipate changing to the Faletra
translation on an early reprint.
Editions and translations:
Charles W. Dunn, ed., The History of the Kings of
Britain, 1963.
Sebastian Evans, trans., A History of the Kings of Britain,
1903.
Michael Faletra, ed. and trans., The History of the Kings
of Britain, 2007.
Jacob Hammer, ed., Historia Regum Britanniae, 1951.
Lewis Thorpe, trans., The History of the Kings of Britain,
1977.
Neil Wright, ed., The Historia Regum Britannie of
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 1985.
Criticism:
Julia C. Crick, The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey
of Monmouth: Dissemination and Reception in the
Later Middle Ages, 1991.
Michael Curley, Geoffrey of Monmouth, 1994.
Robert W. Hanning, The Vision of History in Early
Britain from Gildas to Geoffrey of Monmouth, 1966.
R. William Leckie, Jr., The Passage of Dominion:
Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Periodization of
Insular History in the Twelfth Century, 1981.
John Jay Parry and Robert Caldwell, “Geoffrey of
Monmouth,” Arthurian Literature in the Middle
Ages, ed. Roger S. Loomis, 1959.
Nancy Partner, Serious Entertainments: The Writing of
History in Twelfth-Century England, 1977.
John Tatlock, The Legendary History of Britain: Geoffrey
of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae and its
Early Vernacular Versions, 1950.
Judith
Text: The poem has been newly translated for this
anthology be Stephen Gloseck
Editions:
Mark Griffith, ed., Judith, 1997.
Marie Nelson, ed. and trans., Judith, Juliana, and Elene:
Three Fighting Saints, 1991.
Criticism:
Ann W. Astell, “Holofernes's Head: Tacen and
Teaching in the Old English Judith,” Anglo-Saxon
England 18, 1989: 117–33.
David Chamberlain, “Judith: A Fragmentary and
Political Poem,” Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Essays in
Appreciation, For John C. McGalliard, ed. Lewis E.
Nicholson and Dolores Warwick Frese, 1975:
135–159.
Jane Chance, Woman as Hero in Old English Literature,
1986.
Mary Dockray-Miller, “Female Community in the Old
English Judith,” Studia Neophilologica 70, 1998:
165–72.
Christopher Fee, “Judith and the Rhetoric of Heroism
in Anglo-Saxon England,” English Studies 78, 1997:
401–06.
Martina Häcker, “The Original Length of the Old
English Judith. More Doubt(s) on the ‘Missing
Text’,” Leeds Studies in English 27, 1996: 1–18.
John P. Hermann, “The Theme of Spiritual Warfare in
the Old English Judith,” Philological Quarterly 55,
1976: 1–9.
Susan Kim, “Bloody Signs: Circumcision and
Pregnancy in the Old English Judith,” Exemplaria
11, 1999: 285–307.
Karma Lochrie, “Gender, Sexual Violence, and the
Politics of War in the Old English Judith,” Class and
Gender in Early English Literature, ed. Britton J.
Harwood and Gillian R. Overing, 1994: 1–20.
Peter J. Lucas, “The Place of Judith in the Beowulf-
Manuscript,” Review of English Studies 41, 1990:
463–78.

Hugh Magennis, “Adaptation of Biblical Detail in the
Old English Judith: the Feast Scene,”
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 84, 1983: 331–37.
Hugh Magennis, “Gender and Heroism in the Old
English Judith,” Writing Gender and Genre in
Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle
English Texts, ed. Elaine Treharne, 2002: 5–18.
Elizabeth M. Tyler, “Style and Meaning in Judith,”
Notes and Queries 39, 1992: 16–19.
Julian of Norwich
Text: Of various editions in Middle English, we have
relied particularly on that edited by Marion
Glasscoe. Spelling and punctuation have been substantially
modernized for this anthology.
Editions and Translations:
Edmund Colledge and James Walsh, eds., A Book of Showings
to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich, 2 vols., 1978.
Edmund Colledge and James Walsh, eds. and trans.,
Julian of Norwich: Showings, 1978.
Georgia Ronan Crampton, ed., The Shewings of Julian
of Norwich, rev. ed., 1996.
Marion Glasscoe, ed., Julian of Norwich; A Revelation of
Love, 1976.
E. Spearing, trans., Julian of Norwich: Revelations of
Divine Love, 1998.
Nicholas Watson and Jacqueline Jenkins, The Writings
of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout
Woman and A Revelation of Love, 2006.
Criticism:
D.N. Baker, Julian of Norwich’s Showings: From Vision
to Book, 1994.
Frances Beer, Women and Mystical Experience in the
Middle Ages, 1992.
Carolyn Dinshaw, ed., The Cambridge Companion to
Medieval Women’s Writing, 2003.
M. Diane Krantz, The Life and Text of Julian of
Norwich: The Poetics of Enclosure, 1997.
Grace Jantzen, Julian of Norwich: Mystic and Theologian,
1988.
Sandra J. McEntire, ed., Julian of Norwich: A Book of
Medieval Period Bibliography 15
Essays, 1998.
Margaret Ann Palliser, Christ, Our Mother of Mercy:
Divine Mercy and Compassion in the Theology of the
Shewings of Julian of Norwich, 1992.
Katharina M. Wilson, ed., Medieval Women Writers, 1984.
Margery Kempe
Text: The text has been translated from the Middle
English for this anthology by Claire Waters.
Editions and translations:
Sanford Brown Meech and Hope Emily Allen, eds., The
Book of Margery Kempe, 1940.
John Skinner, trans., The Book of Margery Kempe, 1998.
Lynn Staley, ed. and trans., The Book of Margery Kempe:
A New Translation, Contexts, Criticism, 2001.
Barry Windeatt, ed. and trans., The Book of Margery
Kempe, 1999.
Barry Windeatt, ed., The Book of Margery Kempe, 2000.
Criticism:
John Arnold and Katherine J. Lewis, eds., A Companion
to the Book of Margery Kempe, 2004.
Clarissa W. Atkinson, Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and
the World of Margery Kempe, 1983.
Louise Collis, Memoirs of a Medieval Woman: The Life
and Times of Margery Kempe, 1964.
Karma Lochrie, Margery Kempe and Translations of the
Flesh, 1994.
Sandra J. McEntire, ed., Margery Kempe: A Book of
Essays, 1992.
Lynn Staley, Margery Kempe’s Dissenting Fictions, 1994.
Katharina M. Wilson, ed., Medieval Women Writers,
1984.
The Mabinogi
Text: The anthology’s translation draws substantially on
that of Charlotte Guest. Certain passages referring to
expressions of sexuality that were omitted from the
Guest translation are here restored. Certain spellings
have also been returned to their Welsh form.

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Editions and translations:
Patrick K. Ford, trans., The Mabinogi and Other
Medieval Welsh Tales, 1977.
Charlotte Guest, ed. and trans., The Mabinogion, 1906.
Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones, trans., The Mabinogion,
rev. ed., 1991.
Proinsias Mac Cana, The Mabinogi, 1977.
R.L. Thompson, Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet: The First of the
Four Branches of the Mabinogi, 1957.
Criticism:
Andrew Breeze, Medieval Welsh Literature, 1997.
Patrick K. Ford, “Prolegomena to a Reading of the
Mabinogi: ‘Pwyll’ and ‘Manawydan,’” Studia Celtica
16/17, 1981–82: 110–25.
Jessica Hemming, “Reflections on Rhiannon and the
Horse Episodes in ‘Pwyll’,” Western Folklore 57
1998:19–40.
Proinsias Mac Cana, The Mabinogi, 2 nd ed., 1992.
Charles Sullivan, ed., The Mabinogi: A Book of Essays,
1996.
Donna Rae White, The Mabinogi in Children’s Literature,
1991.
Sir Thomas Malory
Text: Spelling and punctuation have been substantially
modernized for this anthology. Of the various
editions in Middle English, we have relied particularly
on that edited by Eugene Vinaver.
Editions:
Stephen H.A. Shepherd, Le Morte D’Arthur, or, The
Hoole Book Kyng Arthur and of his Noble Knyghtes of
the Rounde Table: Authoritative Text, Sources and
Backgrounds, Criticism, 2004.
James W. Spisak, William Matthews, and Bert Dillon,
eds., Caxton’s Malory, 1983.
Eugene Vinaver, ed., The Works of Sir Thomas Malory,
1968.
Eugene Vinaver, ed., King Arthur and his Knights:
Selected Tales, 1975.
Biographies:
M.C. Bradbook, Sir Thomas Malory, 1958.
P.J.C. Field, The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory,
1993.
Christina Hardyment, Malory: The Life and Times of
King Arthur’s Chronicler, 2005.
Edward Hicks, Sir Thomas Malory, his Turbulent Career:
A Biography, 1970.
William Matthews, The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical
Inquiry into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory, 1966.
Criticism:
Elizabeth Archibald and A.S.G. Edwards, eds. A
Companion to Malory, 1996.
Dorsey Armstrong, Gender and the Chivalric Community
in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, 2003.
J.A.W. Bennett, ed., Essays on Malory, 1963.
W.R.J. Barron, The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian
Legend in Medieval English Life, 1999.
Mark Lambert, Malory: Style and Vision in Le Morte
D’Arthur, 1975.
R.M. Lumiansky, ed., Malory’s Originality: A Critical
Study of Le Morte D’Arthur, 1964.
Andrew Lynch, Malory's Book of Arms: The Narrative of
Combat in Le Morte D’Arthur, 1997.
Charles Moorman, The Book of Kyng Arthur: The Unity
of Malory’s Morte D’Arthur, 1965.
Bonnie Wheeler, Robert L. Kindrick, and Michael
Norman Salda, eds., The Malory Debate: Essays on
the Texts of Le Morte D’Arthur, 2000.
K.S. Whetter, Raluca L. Radulescu, and P.J.C. Field,
eds., Re-Viewing Le Morte Darthur: Texts and
Contexts, Characters and Themes, 2005.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Text: Originally written in Anglo-Norman French, the
Travels was very widely translated in the late
medieval period—-into Latin and several European
languages as well as into English. Five medieval
translations into English are extant. Of these, the
translation known as the Defective Version (which
omits the second quire of the original, containing a
good deal of material concerning Egypt) was the

most widely read in the period. The translation
known as the Cotton Version (after the sole
surviving manuscript in which it appears) has been
more widely read in the modern era, on grounds
both of completeness and of readability; it is that
translation that is used here. Spelling and
punctuation have been regularized and modernized.
Editions:
Norman Denny and Josephin Filmer-Sankey, eds., The
Travels of Sir John Mandeville: An Abridged Version,
1973.
Tamarah Kohanski, ed., The Book of John Mandeville:
An Edition of the Pynson Text with Commentary on
the Defective Version, 2001.
C.W.R.D. Moseley, trans., The Travels of Sir John
Mandeville, 1984.
M. C. Seymour, ed., Mandeville's Travels, 1967.
M.C. Seymour, ed., The Bodley Version of Mandeville’s
Travels, 1963.
M.C. Seymour, ed., The Defective Version of Mandeville’s
Travels, 2002.
Criticism:
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, “The Diversity of Mankind in
The Book of John Mandeville,” Eastward Bound:
Travel and Travellers, 1050–1550, ed. Rosamund
Allen, 2004: 156–76.
Josephine Waters Bennett, The Rediscovery of Sir John
Mandeville, 1954.
Mary B. Campbell, The Witness and the Other World:
Exotic European Travel Writing, 400–1600, 1988.
Andrew Fleck, “Here, There, and In Between: Representing
Difference in the Travels of Sir John
Mandeville,” Studies in Philology 97, 2000: 379– 400.
Stephen Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder
of the New World, 1991.
Iain Macleod Higgins, Writing East: The “Travels” of Sir
John Mandeville, 1997.
Tamarah Malley Kohanski, Uncharted Territory: New
Perspectives on Mandeville’s Travels, 1993.
Malcolm Letts, Sir John Mandeville: The Man and his
Book, 1949.
Linda Lomperis, “Medieval Travel Writing and the
Question of Race,” Journal of Medieval and Early
Medieval Period Bibliography 17
Modern Studies 31, 2001: 147–64.
Giles Milton, The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir
John Mandeville, 2001.
John Roland Seymour Phillips, “The Quest for Sir John
Mandeville,” The Culture of Christendom: Essays in
Medieval History in Commemoration of Denis L.T.
Bethell, ed. Marc Meyer, 1993: 243–55.
M.C. Seymour, Sir John Mandeville, 1993.
Rosemary Tzanaki, Mandeville’s Medieval Audiences,
2003.
Christian Zacher, Curiosity and Pilgrimage: The Literature
of Discovery in Fourteenth Century England,
1976.
Mankind
Text: All editions derive from a single text, Folger
Shakespeare Library MS Va. 354. Spelling and
punctuation have been substantially modernized.
Editions:
David Bevingston, ed., Medieval Drama, 1975.
Frank Kittle and Fattic Grosvenor, eds., A Critical
Edition of the Medieval Play Mankind, 1996.
G.A. Lester, Three Late Medieval Morality Plays:
Mankind, Everyman, Mundus et Infans, 1981.
J.A.B. Somerset, Four Tudor Interludes, 1974.
Glynne William Gladstone Wickham, English Moral
Interludes, 1976.
Criticism:
Richard Beadle, ed., The Cambridge Companion to
Medieval English Theatre, 1994.
Mary Catherine Berge, The Moral Play in Mankind: A
New Trend in Later Medieval Drama, 1963.
Dorothy R. Castle, The Diabolical Game to Win Man’s
Souls: A Rhetorical and Structure Approach to
Mankind, 1987.
Clifford Davidson, Visualizing the Moral Life: Medieval
Iconography and the Macro Morality Plays, 1989.
Douglas W. Hayes, Rhetorical Subversion in Early
English Drama, 2004.
Michael R. Kelley, Flamboyant Drama: A Study of the

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Castle of Perseverance, Mankind, and Wisdom, 1979.
Paul Russell, Medieval Mankind, A Slapstick Moral Play,
1985.
Zacharias P. Thundy, “Morality Plays: Mankind and
Everyman,”Old and Middle English Literature, eds.
Jeffrey Helterman and Jerome Mitchell, 1994:
400–04.
Marie de France
Text: Bisclavret, Lanval, Laüstic, and Chevrefoil have all
been newly translated from the French for this
anthology by Claire Waters.
Editions and translations:
Glyn S. Burgess and Keith Busby, trans., The Lais of
Marie de France, 1999.
Glyn S. Burgess, trans., The Lais of Marie de France:
Text and Context, 1987.
Robert Hanning and Joan Ferrante, trans., The Lais of
Marie de France, 1978.
Jean Rychner, ed., Les lais de Marie de France, 1966.
Harriet Spiegel, ed. and trans., Marie de France: Fables,
1987.
Criticism:
Howard R. Bloch, The Anonymous Marie de France,
2003.
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, “Marie de France,”
Literature of the French and Occitan Middle Ages:
Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries, eds. Deborah
Sinnreich-Levi and Ian S. Laurie, 1999.
William Calin, The French Tradition and the Literature
of Medieval England, 1994.
Mary Carpenter Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds.,
Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power
in the Middle Ages, 1988.
Roberta L. Krueger, “Marie de France,” The Cambridge
Companion to Medieval Women's Writing, eds.
Carolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace, 2003: 101–
14.
Katharina M. Wilson, ed., Medieval Women Writers,
1984.
Middle English Lyrics
Texts: In the preparation of the texts that appear here
several editions have been consulted, among them
those of R.T. Davies, Thomas G. Duncan, and
Theodore Silverstein. Spelling and punctuation have
in many cases been modernized for the present
anthology.
Editions:
E.K. Chambers and Frank Sidgwick, eds., Early English
Lyrics: Amorous, Divine, Moral and Trivial, 1967.
G.L. Brook, ed., The Harley Lyrics: the Middle English
Lyrics of MS. Harley 2253, 1978.
Reginald Thorne Davies, ed., Medieval English Lyrics: A
Critical Anthology, 1963.
Thomas G. Duncan, ed., Medieval English Lyrics, 1200–
1400, 1995.
Maxwell Luria and Richard Hoffman, eds., Middle
English Lyrics, 1974.
Theodore Silverstein, ed., Medieval English Lyrics, 1971.
Celia Sisam, comp., The Oxford Book of Medieval
English Verse, 1970.
Robert Stevick, ed., One Hundred Middle English Lyrics,
1994.
Criticism:
Walter H. Beale, Old and Middle English Poetry to 1500:
A Guide to Information Sources, 1976.
Thomas G. Duncan, ed., A Companion to the Middle
English Lyric, 2005.
Douglas Gray, Themes and Images in the Medieval
English Religious Lyric, 1972.
Joseph J. Hayes, The Court Lyric in the Age of Chaucer,
1973.
John C. Hirsh, Medieval Lyric: Middle English Lyrics,
Ballads and Carols, 2005.
David Jeffrey, The Early English Lyric and Franciscan
Spirituality, 1975.
Arthur Keister Moore, The Secular Lyric in Middle
English, 1951.
Raymond Oliver, Poems Without Names: The English
Lyric 1200–1500, 1970.
Derek Pearsall, Old English and Middle English Poetry,
1977.

D.J. Ransom, Poets at Play: Irony and Parody in the
Harley Lyrics, 1985.
A.C. Spearing, Readings in Medieval Poetry, 1987.
Rosemary Woolf, The English Religious Lyric in the
Middle Ages, 1968
Noah’s Flood
Text: Spelling and punctuation have been substantially
modernized, but alterations that would affect rhythm
or rhyme have been avoided. Of the various editions
in Middle English, we have consulted that edited by
Lumiansky and Mills most frequently.
Editions and translations:
Hermann Deimling, ed., The Chester Plays, 1892.
Thomas J. Garbàty, ed., Medieval English Literature,
1984.
Vincent Foster Hopper, ed., Medieval Mystery Plays, 1962.
R.M. Lumiansky and David Mills, eds., The Chester
Mystery Cycle, 1974.
Criticism:
John A. Alford, ed., From Page to Performance: Essays in
Early English Drama, 1995.
Richard Beadle, ed., The Cambridge Companion to
Medieval English Theatre, 1994.
V.A. Kolve, The Play Called Corpus Christi, 1966.
David Mills, ed., Staging the Chester Cycle, 1985.
Sondra Rosenberg, The Five Noah Plays, 1963.
Colette Marie Thomas, Timelessness in the Noah Mystery
Plays, 1991.
Glynne Wickham, ed., Early English Stages 1300–1600:
Volume One, 1959.
Rosemary Woolf, The English Mystery Plays, 1972.
Thomas Wright, The Medieval Theatre, 1995.
Old English Metrical Charms
Texts: These texts have been newly translated by R. M.
Liuzza for this anthology; the Dobbie edition has
been relied on for the Old English texts on which
the translations are based.
Medieval Period Bibliography 19
Editions:
Elliot Van Kirk Dobbie, The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems,
1942.
Edward Pettit, ed. and trans., Anglo-Saxon Remedies,
Charms, and Prayers from British Library MS Harley
585: “The Lacnunga,” 2 vols., 2001.
Translations:
Stephen Pollington, Leechcraft: Early English Charms,
Plant Lore, and Healing, 2000.
Criticism:
Lois Bragg, “The Modes of the Old English Metrical
Charms—the Texts of Magic,” New Approaches to
Medieval Textuality, ed. Mikle David Ledgerwood,
1998: 117–40.
M.L. Cameron, “Anglo-Saxon Medicine and Magic,”
Anglo-Saxon England 17, 1988: 191–215.
Stephen O. Glosecki, “‘Blow these vipers from me’:
Mythic Magic in The Nine Herbs Charm,” Essays on
Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in
Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr., ed. Loren C.
Gruber, Meredith Crellin Gruber, and Gregory K.
Jember, 2000: 91–123.
Stephen O. Glosecki, Shamanism and Old English
Poetry, 1989.
Stanley R. Hauer, “Structure and Unity in the Old
English Charm Wið Færstice,” English Language
Notes 15, 1978: 250–57.
Karen Louise Jolly, “Anglo-Saxon Charms in the
Context of a Christian World View,” Journal of
Medical History 11, 1985: 279–93.
Karen Louise Jolly, “Medieval Magic: Definitions,
Beliefs, Practices,” Witchcraft and Magic in Europe:
The Middle Ages, ed. Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart
Clark, 2002: 1–71.
Karen Louise Jolly, Popular Religion in Late Saxon
England: Elf Charms in Context, 1996.
John D. Niles, “Pagan Survivals and Popular Belief,”
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature,
ed. Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge, 1991:
126–41.
Winfried Nöth, “Semiotics of the Old English Charm,”
Semiotica 19, 1977: 59–83.
Edward Pettit, “Some Anglo-Saxon Charms,” Essays on

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Anglo-Saxon and Related Themes in Memory of Lynne
Grundy, ed. Jane Roberts and Janet Nelson, 2000:
411–33.
John Richardson, “Hlude wæron hy: Syncretic
Christianity in the Old English Charm Wið
Færstice,” Mankind Quarterly 42, 2001: 21–45.
D.G.Scragg, ed., Superstition and Popular Medicine in
Anglo-Saxon England, 1989.
Judith A. Vaughan-Sterling, “The Anglo Saxon Metrical
Charms: Poetry as Ritual,” Journal of English and
Germanic Philology 82, 1983: 186–200.
Quem Quaeritis
Text: The Latin text has been newly translated for this
anthology.
Editions and Translations:
David Bevington, ed. Medieval Drama, 1975.
John Gassner, ed., Medieval and Tudor Drama, 1963.
T. Wright, ed., Early Mysteries and Other Latin Poems,
1838.
Criticism:
David A. Bjork, “On the Dissemination of Quem
Quaeritis and the Visitatio Sepulchri and the
Chronology of their Early Sources,” The Drama in
the Middle Ages: Comparative and Critical Essays, eds.
Clifford Davidson, C.J. Gianakaris, and John H.
Stroupe, 1982: 1–24.
James M. Gibson, “Quem Queritis in Presepe: Christmas
Drama or Christmas Liturgy?” Drama in the Middle
Ages: Comparative and Critical Essays, eds. Clifford
Davidson and John H. Stroupe, 1990: 106–28.
O.B. Hardison, Christian Rite and Christian Drama in
the Middle Ages, 1965.
Michal Kobialka, “The Quem Quaeritis: Theatre
History Displacement,” Theatre History Studies 8,
1988: 35–51.
Timothy McGee, The Liturgical Origin and Early
History of the Quem Quaeritis Dialogue, 1974.
The Service for Representing Adam (Jeu d’Adam)
Text: For this anthology the David Bevington translation
has been used.
Editions:
Paul Aebischer, ed., Le Mystère d’Adam: Ordo
Representacionis Ade, 1963.
David Bevington, ed., Medieval Drama, 1975.
Arthur Harden, ed., Trois piéces médiévales: Le Jeu
d’Adam, Le Miracle de Théophile, La Farce du
Cuvier, 1967.
Willem Noomen, ed., Le Jeu d’Adam: Ordo representacionis
Ade, 1971.
Criticism:
James C. Atkinson, “Theme, Structure and Motif in the
Mystere d’Adam,” Philological Quarterly 56, 1977:
27–42.
Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality
in Western Literature, 1953.
Hardin Craig, English Religious Drama of the Middle
Ages, 1955.
Grace Frank, The Medieval French Drama, 1954.
Joan Tasker Grimbert, “Eve as Adam’s Pareil: Equivalence
and Subordination in the Jeu d’Adam,”
Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture, eds. Donald
Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox, 1994: 29–37.
O.B. Hardison, Christian Rite and Christian Drama in
the Middle Ages, 1965.
Steven Justice, “The Authority of Ritual in the Jeu
d’Adam,” Speculum 62, 1987: 851–64.
Emanuel J. Mickel, “Faith, Memory, Treason and
Justice in the Ordo Representacionis Ade (Jeu
d’Adam),” Romania 112, 1991: 129–54.
Lynette R. Muir, Liturgy and Drama in the Anglo-
Norman Adam, 1973.
Roger Pensom, “Theatrical Space in the Jeu d’Adam,”
French Studies 47, 1993: 257–75.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Text: The James Winny translation has been used for
the anthology.
Editions and translations:
Marie Borroff, trans., Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
1967.
Andrew Malcolm and Ronald Waldron, ed. and trans.,
The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness,
Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 4 th ed.,
2002.
Theodore Silverstein, ed., Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight: A New Critical Edition, 1984.
J.R.R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon, eds., rev. by Norman
Davis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 1967.
William Vantuono, ed., The Pearl Poems: An Omnibus
Edition, 1984.
James Winny, trans. and ed., Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight, 1992.
Criticism:
Ross G. Arthur, Medieval Sign Theory and Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight, 1987.
Robert J. Blanch, Miriam Youngerman Miller, and
Julian N. Wasserman, eds., Text and Matter: New
Critical Perspectives of the Pearl-Poet, 1991.
Robert J. Blanch and Julian N. Wasserman, From Pearl
to Gawain: Forme to Fynisment, 1995.
Marie Borroff, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A
Stylistic and Metrical Study, 1962.
Derek Brewer and Jonathan Gibson, eds., A Companion
to the Gawain-Poet, 1997.
Norris J. Lacy, ed., The Arthurian Encyclopedia, 1986.
Miriam Youngerman Miller and Jane Chance, eds.,
Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight, 1986.
Michael W. Twomey, “The Gawain-Poet,” Readings in
Medieval Texts: Interpreting Old and Middle English
Literature, eds. David F. Johnson and Elaine
Treharne, 2005: 273–87.
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Sir Orfeo
Text: For this anthology the Lakeaya and Salisbury text
has been used.
Editions and translations:
A.J. Bliss, ed., Sir Orfeo, 2 nd ed., 1966.
Thomas Chestre, Lesley Johnson, and Elizabeth
Williams, eds., Sir Orfeo and Sir Launfal, 1984.
A.C. Gibbs, ed., Middle English Romances, 1966.
Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury, eds., The Middle
English Breton Lays, 1995.
Donald B. Sands, ed., Middle English Verse Romances,
1966.
J.R.R. Tolkien, trans., Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
Pearl, and Sir Orfeo, 1975.
Criticism:
H. Aertsen and Alasdair A. MacDonald, eds., Companion
to Middle English Romance, 2 nd ed., 1994.
Roberta L. Krueger, The Cambridge Companion to
Medieval Romance, 2000.
Seth Lerer, “Artifice and Artistry in Sir Orfeo,” Speculum
60, 1985: 92–109.
R.M. Liuzza, “Sir Orfeo: Sources, Traditions, and the
Poetics of Performance,” Journal of Medieval and
Renaissance Studies 21, 1991: 269–84.
Sharon Ouditt, Displaced Persons: Conditions of Exile in
European Culture, 2002.
Felicity Riddy, “The Uses of the Past in Sir Orfeo,”
Yearbook of English Studies 6, 1976: 5–15.
N.H.G.E. Veldhoen and H. Aertsen, eds., Companion
to Early Middle English Literature, 1995.
The Wakefield Master – The Second Shepherd’s
Play and Herod the Great
Text: For the anthology spelling and punctuation have
been substantially modernized from the original
Towneley text.
Editions:
John Russel Brown, ed., The Complete Plays of the
Wakefield Master, 1983.

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A.C. Cawley and Martin Stevens, eds., The Towneley
Cycle: A facsimile of Huntington MS, HMI, 1976.
David Bevington, ed., Medieval Drama, 1975.
Martial Rose, ed. The Wakefield Mystery Plays, 1962.
Martin Stevens, The Towneley Plays, 1994.
Martin Stevens and A.C. Cawley, eds., The Towneley
Plays, 2 vols, 1994.
Criticism:
E.K. Chambers, The Mediaeval Stage, 1903.
Hardin Craig, English Religious Drama of the Middle
Ages, 1955.
Warren Edminster, The Preaching Fox: Festive Subversion
in the Plays of the Wakefeild Master, 2005.
Garrett Epp, “The Townley Plays, or, The Hazards of
Cycling,” Research Opportunities in Renaissance
Drama 32, 1993: 121–150.
Garrett Epp, “‘Corrected and Not Playd’: an
Unproductive History of the Townley Plays,” Research
Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 43, 2004: 38–53.
John Gardner, The Construction of the Wakefield Cycle,
1974.
Jeffrey Helterman, Symbolic Action in the Plays of the
Wakefield Master, 1981.
V.A. Kolve, The Play Called Corpus Christi, 1966.
Liam O. Purdon, The Wakefield Master's Dramatic Art:
A Drama of Spiritual Understanding, 2003.
Glynne Wickham, Early English Stages, 1972.
Glynne Wickham, The Medieval Theatre, 1995.
Wulfstan
Text: The text has been newly translated by R. M.
Liuzza for this anthology; the Bethurum edition has
been relied on for the Old English text on which the
translation is based.
Editions:
Dorothy Bethurum, ed., The Homilies of Wulfstan,
1957.
Dorothy Whitelock, ed., Sermo Lupi ad Anglos. Reprint,
with additional bibliography, of Methuen ed., 1976.
Criticism:
J.E. Cross, “Literary Impetus for Wulfstan’s Sermo
Lupi,” Leeds Studies in English 20, 1989: 270–91.
Michael Cummings, “Paired Opposites in Wulfstan’s
Sermo Lupi ad Anglos,” Revue de l’Université
d’Ottawa 50, 1980: 233–43.
Milton McC. Gatch, Preaching and Theology in Anglo-
Saxon England: Ælfric and Wulfstan, 1977.
Joyce Hill, “Ælfric and Wulfstan: Two Views of the
Millennium,” Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Related
Themes in Memory of Lynne Grundy, eds. Jane
Roberts and Janet Nelson, 2000: 213–35.
Stephanie Hollis, “The Thematic Structure of the Sermo
Lupi,” Anglo-Saxon England 6, 1977: 175–95.
Andy Orchard, “Crying Wolf: Oral Style and the
Sermones Lupi,” Anglo-Saxon England 21, 1992:
239–64.
Andy Orchard, “On Editing Wulfstan,” Early Medieval
English Texts and Interpretations: Studies Presented to
Donald G. Scragg, eds. Elaine Treharne and Susan
Rosser, 2002: 311–40.
Jonathan Wilcox, “The Dissemination of Wulfstan’s
Homilies: the Wulfstan Tradition in Eleventh-
Century Vernacular Preaching,” England in the
Eleventh Century: Proceedings of the 1990 Harlaxton
Symposium, ed. Carola Hicks, 1992: 199–217.
Jonathan Wilcox, “The Wolf on Shepherds: Wulfstan,
Bishops, and the Context of the Sermo Lupi ad
Anglos,” Old English Prose: Basic Readings, ed. Paul
E. Szarmach, 2000: 395–418.
Patrick Wormald, “Archbishop Wulfstan and the
Holiness of Society,” Anglo-Saxon History: Basic
Readings, ed. David A.E. Pelteret, 2000: 191–224.