Course Readings
Primary Printed Texts
- Beowulf, trans. Chickering (Available in University Bookshop)
- The Owl and the Nightingale, ed. Cartlidge (Available in University Bookshop)
- De Hamel, Scribes and Illuminators (Available in University Bookshop)
- The Canterbury Tales, ed. Beidler (Available in University Bookshop)
Primary Texts Online (Code for Electronic Reserves is 7787)
Note on the readings for 5 September
- Old English Riddles
- The Cædmon Story
- Poems from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Electronic Reserves)
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in Old English
- Extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in translation (Electronic Reserves)
- The St Albans Psalter
- “Stond wel, Moder, under rode” §33
- Sir Orfeo and Introduction to Sir Orfeo
Secondary Texts Online
Note on the readings for 5 September
- O’Keeffe, “Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse” (Electronic Reserves)
- O’Keeffe, “Orality and the Developing Text of Cædmon’s Hymn” (Electronic Reserves)
- Creed, “The Making of an Anglo-Saxon Poem” (JSTOR)
- Niles, “Ring Composition and the Structure of Beowulf” (JSTOR)
- Niles, “Reconceiving Beowulf: Poetry as Social Praxis” (JSTOR)
- White, “Books of Hours and the Bridwell Hours”
- Holsinger, "Vernacular Legality" (Electronic Reserves)
- Dagenais, "Delcolonizing the Medieval Page" (Electronic Reserves)
- “What is mouvance?”; Case Study
- “What is a contrafactum”
- Corrie, “Harley 2253, Digby 86, and the Circulation of Literature” (Electronic Reserves)
- Evans, “Sir Orfeo in Manuscript Context” (Electronic Reserves)
- Hilmo, “Framing the Canterbury Pilgrims for the Aristocratic Readers of the Ellesmere Manuscript” (Electronic Reserves)
- Parks, “Oral Tradition and the Canterbury Tales” (Electronic Reserves)
- Hanna, “Compilatio and the Wife of Bath” (Electronic Reserves)
Supplemental
- Facsimile of the Paris Psalter (Oviatt Library, Special Collections)
- Facsimile of t he Parker Chronicle (Oviatt Library, Special Collections)
- Facsimile of the Peterborough Chronicle (Oviatt Library, Special Collections)
- The Ellesmere Chaucer -- Facsimiles of some pages (Long Island University)
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, trans. Dorothy Whitelock (Oviatt Library)
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, trans. Michael Swanton (Available in many bookshops and from Amazon.com)
- Andrew Galloway, Medieval Literature and Culture (Available from Amazon.com)
- The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England ( Available in many bookshops and from Amazon.com)
Resources
- Oxford English Dictionary (through Oviatt Library)
- Middle English Dictionary
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary:
- Printed Version (Oviatt Library)
- Online Version: The Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Project, Facsimile by Kevin Kiernan, Germanic Lexikon Project, Downloadable Search Version for Windows, Downloadable Search Version for Mac
- J.R. Clark Hall, A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Oviatt Library)
- Chicago Style Guide