Course Readings

Course readings will shortly be moved to a WebCT site. However, the first reading, John Dagenais' De-Colonizing the Medieval Page is available here.

Note that this article was not scanned well in a few places, making reading difficult. Do your best, and any problems will emerge in class discussion.

Primary Printed Texts

  1. Beowulf, trans. Chickering (Available from Amazon.com)
  2. De Hamel, Scribes and Illuminators (Available from Amazon.com)
  3. The Canterbury Tales, ed. Hieatt & Hieatt (Available from Amazon.com)

Primary Texts Online

  1. Old English Riddles
  2. The Cædmon Story
  3. Zupitza's facsimile of Beowulf (Google Books)
  4. Poems from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (WebCT Readings)
  5. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in Old English
  6. Extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in translation (WebCT Readings)
  7. The St Albans Psalter
  8. “Stond wel, Moder, under rode” §33
  9. Sir Orfeo and Introduction to Sir Orfeo

Secondary Texts Online

  1. O’Keeffe, “Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse” (WebCT Readings)
  2. Symes, “Manuscript Matrix, Modern Canon” Note: This contains full text, but it gets cut off when you print. Please read online.
  3. O’Keeffe, “Orality and the Developing Text of Cædmon’s Hymn” (WebCT Readings)
  4. O’Keeffe, “Poems from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle” (WebCT Readings)
  5. Creed, “The Making of an Anglo-Saxon Poem” (JSTOR)
  6. Niles, “Ring Composition and the Structure of Beowulf” (JSTOR)
  7. Niles, “Reconceiving Beowulf: Poetry as Social Praxis” (JSTOR)
  8. White, “Books of Hours and the Bridwell Hours”
  9. Dagenais, “Delcolonizing the Medieval Page” (WebCT Readings)
  10. “What is mouvance?”; Case Study
  11. “What is a contrafactum”
  12. Corrie, “Harley 2253, Digby 86, and the Circulation of Literature” (WebCT Readings)
  13. Evans, “Sir Orfeo in Manuscript Context” (WebCT Readings or Electronic Reserves)
  14. Hilmo, “Framing the Canterbury Pilgrims for the Aristocratic Readers of the Ellesmere Manuscript” (WebCT Readings)
  15. Parks, “Oral Tradition and the Canterbury Tales” (WebCT Readings)
  16. Hanna, “Compilatio and the Wife of Bath” (WebCT Readings)

Supplemental

  1. Facsimile of the Paris Psalter (Oviatt Library, Special Collections)
  2. Facsimile of the 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 Hengwrt Chaucer -- Online Edition of the Manuscript (Scholarly Digital Editions)
  6. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, trans. Dorothy Whitelock (Oviatt Library)
  7. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, trans. Michael Swanton (Available in many bookshops and from Amazon.com)
  8. Andrew Galloway, Medieval Literature and Culture (Available from Amazon.com)
  9. The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England ( Available in many bookshops and from Amazon.com)

Resources

  1. Oxford English Dictionary
  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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