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Medieval English Manuscripts: Form, Aesthetics, and the Literary Text
Bahr, Arthur, and Alexandra Gillespie.
Chaucer Review 47.4 (2013): 346-60.
Introduces a special issue on manuscript studies and history of the book in relation to critical theory; also, summarizes the issue's articles. Discusses CT, TC, and Th.
Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology.
Davies, R. T., ed.
London: Faber and Faber, 1963.
[Evanston, Illinois]: Northwestern University Press, 1964.
[Evanston, Illinois]: Northwestern University Press, 1964.
Anthologizes 187 English lyric poems and lyrical excerpts from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries, arranged in chronological order, with an Introduction (pp. 13-49), on-page glosses, end-of-text notes, an appendix of Types and Titles of the…
Medieval English Lyrics, 1200-1400
Duncan, Thomas G., ed.
London: Penguin, 1995.
Having normalized the language "in accordance with the grammar and spelling of late fourteenth-century London English," Duncan divides this "comprehensive selection" of lyrics into four thematic groups, three of which include lyrics attributed to…
Medieval English Lyrics and Carols.
Duncan, Thomas G., ed.
Cambridge: Brewer, 2013.
Offers a "comprehensive selection" of short poems and lyrical interpolations from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (Part I) and from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Part II), topically arranged, in normalized spelling, with sidebar…
Medieval English Literature. 2d. ed
Trapp, J. B., Douglas Gray, and Julia Boffey, eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
An anthology of works from "Beowulf" to Caxton, with a variety of selections from Chaucer (pp. 111-331) in Middle English, with introductions, notes, and glosses: GP, NPPT (with two other fox stories), WBPT (with Dunbar's "Two Married Women and the…
Medieval English Literature.
Fannon, Beatrice, ed.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Offers essays that reflect the variety of critical viewpoints of medieval writers, including William Langland and Chaucer. Part 2 is devoted to Chaucer scholarship. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval English Literature…
Medieval English Literature: A Spanish Approach
Galván Reula, Fernando.
Actas del Primer Congreso Internacional de S.E.L.I.M. (Oviedo: Universidad de Oviedo, 1989), pp. 98-111.
Considers Chaucer's knowledge of Spain in light of medieval Spanish-English relations.
Medieval English Literature and the Idea of the Anthology
Lerer, Seth.
PMLA 118: 1251-65, 2003.
Discusses the idea of the anthology as a fundamental characteristic of medieval literature, using CT as an example because individual tales were often copied into other anthologies.
Medieval English Literature
Trapp, J. B., ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973
Textbook anthology of Old and Middle English literature that includes selections from Chaucer (pp. 119-283) in Middle English with glosses, notes, and introductions to Chaucer's life, works, and language. Selections include GP, MilPT, NPPT (with two…
Medieval English Literature
Garbaty, Thomas (J.)
Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1984.
This textbook anthology is organized by genre, and includes Chaucer's MilT, Th, and Purse.
Medieval English Literary and Cultural Studies
Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo, and M. Vila Vázquez González, eds.
Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, 2004.
Includes five essays that pertain to Chaucer; for the individual essays search for Medieval English Literary and Cultural Studies under Alternative Title.
Medieval English Comedy
Hordis, Sandra M., and Paul Hardwisk, eds.
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007.
Ten essays by various authors discuss comedy in Old English literature and in several Middle English media: drama, narrative poetry, stained glass, illuminations, and misericords. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval English…
Medieval England: An Encyclopedia
Szarmach, Paul E.,M. Teresa Tavormina, and Joel T. Rosenthal,eds.
New York and London: Garland, 1998.
An alphabetical encyclopedia from "Abbo of Fleury" to "York Virgin and Child."
Medieval England: A Ten Day Lesson Plan
Baumeister, David J.
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 227-46.
Instructions, outlines, plot synopses, and handouts for use in teaching English medieval literature (including selections from CT) to high school seniors.
Medieval Ekphrasis: Chaucer's "Knight's Tale."
Johnston, Andrew James.
Gabriele Rippl, ed. Handbook of Intermediality: Literature--Image--Sound--Music (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015), pp. 50–64.
Describes "medieval approaches to vision, to the relations between text and image and to ekphrasis" before assessing KnT as Chaucer's critique of "attempts to essentialise and keep separate different media and genres, especially the verbal and the…
Medieval Dream-Poetry
Spearing, A. C.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Studies the backgrounds and traditions of "dream-poetry" in English literature from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, exploring poets' awareness of writing within an ongoing tradition and their uses of the dream device to express their…
Medieval Dream Visions : Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
Quinn, William A.
David F. Johnson and Elaine Treharne, eds. Readings in Medieval Texts: Interpreting Old and Middle English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 323-36.
Quinn defines the genre of dream vision, surveys "standard readings" of BD, and offers a "re-vision" of the poem that reconciles its humor and sadness by imagining it as a performance some years after the death of Blanche. The poem may have been…
Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England
Kowaleski, Maryanne, and P. J. P. Goldberg, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Eleven essays by various authors (and an introduction by the editors) address a range of topics: domestic and monastic spaces, attitudes toward living alone, various literary and historical depictions of homes and households, etc. The collection…
Medieval Dog Whisperers: The Poetics of Rehabilitation.
Fumo, Jamie C.
In Alison Langdon, ed. Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 217-34.
Departs from purely functional or allegorical approaches to the whelp in BD by situating the narrative's portrayal of canine-human relations within the field of critical animal studies. Establishes the role of the whelp in rectifying human…
Medieval Discussions of the Role of the Author: A Preliminary Survey, with Particular Reference to Chaucer and Gower
Minnis, A. J.
Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1976-1977): 1534C.
Theological commentators in the Middle Ages distinguished between the roles of "auctor" and "compilator." Gower seems to have modeled his main literary stances (as "propheta" in the "Vox Clamantis" and "sapiens" in the "Confessio Amantis") on the…
Medieval Culture: The Image and the City.
Brantl, Ruth, ed.
New York: Braziller, 1966.
Anthologizes selections and excerpts from medieval literature and history (most in modern English), offered for use as a textbook in social history. Includes GP, lines 1-274 (pp. 228-48), in normalized Middle English, with no notes or glosses,…
Medieval Culture and Society.
Herlihy, David, ed.
New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
An anthology of readings from medieval sources—literary, political, religious, etc.-- translated into modern English. Includes GP (translated by Frank E. Hill), titled "Chaucer's Picture of Medieval Society," with a brief descriptive introduction.
Medieval Cultural Studies: Essays in Honour of Stephen Knight
Evans, Ruth, ed.
Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2006.
Seventeen essays by various authors on topics such as Robin Hood, Chaucer, medieval romance, medievalism, cultural studies, and modern crime fiction. Includes an introduction (pp. 1-6) and a bibliography of Knight's publications (pp. 269-77). For six…
Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred.
Newman, Barbara.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013.
Explores how the "sacred and the secular interact" in Latin, French, and English texts and frames this "crossover concept" as key to understanding medieval literature. Includes discussion of PrT, FranT, KnT, MLT, WBPT, LGW, and TC.
Medieval Crime Fiction: A Critical Overview.
McKendry, Anne.
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2019.
Offers brief backgrounds to historical novels, medievalism, and crime fiction, and surveys the subgenre of medieval crime fiction, i.e., novels "featuring crime or mystery that is solved by a 'detective' and set during the European Middle Ages."…