Class Details

Class Number 14024

Tues., Thurs. 4:00-6:45

Jerome Richfield 319

Contact Details

Office: 803 Sierra Tower
Telephone: 677-0901
E-mail: scott.kleinman@csun.edu

Primary Printed Texts

  1. Beowulf, trans. Chickering (Available in University Bookshop)
  2. De Hamel, Scribes and Illuminators (Available in University Bookshop)
  3. The Canterbury Tales, ed. Beidler (Available in University Bookshop)

Primary Texts Online

To access Electronic Reserves, go to http://library.csun.edu/Library_Services/Reserves/index.html and do a search for "Kleinman" or "engl 493". You will need your Portal username and password, as well as the course password: 8836. Note: Page numbers refer to the page number in the PDF file, not to the page number in the original document.

  1. Old English Riddles
  2. The Cædmon Story
  3. Poems from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (WebCT Readings or Electronic Reserves -- Part 2, p. 1)
  4. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in Old English
  5. Extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in translation (WebCT Readings or Electronic Reserves -- Part 2, p. 1)
  6. The St Albans Psalter
  7. “Stond wel, Moder, under rode” §33
  8. Sir Orfeo and Introduction to Sir Orfeo

Secondary Texts Online

To access Electronic Reserves, go to http://library.csun.edu/Library_Services/Reserves/index.html and do a search for "Kleinman" or "engl 493". You will need your Portal username and password, as well as the course password: 8836. Note: Page numbers refer to the page number in the PDF file, not to the page number in the original document.

  1. O’Keeffe, “Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse” (WebCT Readings or Electronic Reserves -- Part 2, p. 66)
  2. O’Keeffe, “Orality and the Developing Text of Cædmon’s Hymn” (WebCT Readings or Electronic Reserves -- Part 4, p. 52)
  3. O’Keeffe, “Poems from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle” (WebCT Readings or Electronic Reserves -- Part 1, p. 35)
  4. Creed, “The Making of an Anglo-Saxon Poem” (JSTOR)
  5. Niles, “Ring Composition and the Structure of Beowulf” (JSTOR)
  6. Niles, “Reconceiving Beowulf: Poetry as Social Praxis” (JSTOR)
  7. White, “Books of Hours and the Bridwell Hours”
  8. Dagenais, “Delcolonizing the Medieval Page” (WebCT Readings or Electronic Reserves -- Not scanned by the library. This one's coming.)
  9. “What is mouvance?”; Case Study
  10. “What is a contrafactum”
  11. Corrie, “Harley 2253, Digby 86, and the Circulation of Literature” (WebCT Readings or Electronic Reserves -- Part 5, p. 21)
  12. Evans, “Sir Orfeo in Manuscript Context” (WebCT Readings or Electronic Reserves)
  13. Hilmo, “Framing the Canterbury Pilgrims for the Aristocratic Readers of the Ellesmere Manuscript” (WebCT Readings or Electronic Reserves -- Part 2, p. 78, with images in parts 3, 4, and 5, p. 1)
  14. Parks, “Oral Tradition and the Canterbury Tales” (WebCT Readings or Electronic Reserves -- Part 1, p. 18)
  15. Hanna, “Compilatio and the Wife of Bath” (WebCT Readings or Electronic Reserves)

Supplemental

  1. Facsimile of the Paris Psalter (Oviatt Library, Special Collections)
  2. Facsimile of t he Parker Chronicle (Oviatt Library, Special Collections)
  3. Facsimile of the Peterborough Chronicle (Oviatt Library, Special Collections)
  4. The Ellesmere Chaucer -- Facsimiles of some pages (Long Island University)
  5. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, trans. Dorothy Whitelock (Oviatt Library)
  6. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, trans. Michael Swanton (Available in many bookshops and from Amazon.com)
  7. Andrew Galloway, Medieval Literature and Culture (Available from Amazon.com)
  8. The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England ( Available in many bookshops and from Amazon.com)

Resources

  1. Oxford English Dictionary (through Oviatt Library)
  2. Middle English Dictionary
  3. Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary:
  4. J.R. Clark Hall, A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Oviatt Library)
  5. Chicago Style Guide

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