Readings

Readings for Week 3

These readings will be moved to Moodle soon.

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

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

Secondary Texts Online

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

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 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
  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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