Bibliography

This bibliography lists recent or significant work on some of the texts studied in this course. It is not a complete list and contains only those works which can be found in the CSUN library or accessed through its catalogue or over the internet.

Historical Background

1. Nigel Saul, The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). [Covers the Anglo-Saxon period to the fifteenth century.]
2. Christopher Daniell, From Norman Conquest to Magna Carta: England 1066-1215 (London and New York: Routledge, 2003).
3. Danny Danziger and John Gillingham, 1215: The Year of Magna Carta (London: Hodder & Stoghton, 2003, repr. Touchstone 2005). [Actually covers the period from 1066-1215 in a very readable form.]
4. Lillian M. Bisson, Chaucer and the Late Medieval World (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998).

Language

1. A Middle English Dictionary
   Note: The online version used to be available only on a trial basis, which involved going to another web page to get the password. For the moment, this no longer appears to be required, but this may change. Please let me know if the link above does not work.

General Discussion of English Romances (in order of publication)

1. Rosalind Field, 'Romance in England.' In The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. Ed David Wallace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 152-176.
2. Piero Boitani, English Medieval Narrative in the 13th and 14^th Centuries, trans. Joan Krakover Hall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
3. Lee C. Ramsey, Chivalric Romances: Popular Literature in Medieval England (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983).
4. Dieter Mehl, The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968).
5. Derek Pearsall, 'The Development of Middle English Romance.' Medieval Studies 27 (1965): 91-116.

Lay Le Freine

1. Nicolas Jacob, 'Sir Degare, Lay le Freine, Beves of Hamtoun and the "Auchinleck Bookshop.'" Notes and Queries 29:4 (1982): 294-301.'

Athelston

1. Nancy Mason Bradbury, 'The Erosion of Oath-Based Relationships: A Cultural Context for Athelston', Medium Ævum 73: 2 (2004): 189-200.
2. John C. Ford, ' Merry Married Brothers: Wedded Friendhip, Lovers' Language and Male Matrimonials in Two Middle English Romances', Medieval Forum 3 (2003).
3. Elaine M. Treharne, 'Romanticizing the Past in the Middle English Athelston', Review of English Studies 50:197 (1999): 1-21.
4. Daniel F. Pigg, 'The Implications of Realist Poetics in the Middle English Athelston', English Language Notes 32:2 (1994): 1-8.

Octavian

1. Glenn  Wright, 'The Fabliau Ethos in the French and English Octavian Romances', Modern Philology: 102:4 (2005): 478-500.
2. Nola Jean Bamberry, ' Evolution of the Popular Hero in the English Octavian Romances', Modern Language Quarterly 51:3 (1990): 363-88.

Sir Isumbras

1. Stephen D. Powell, 'Models of Religious Peace in the Middle English Romance Sir Isumbras', Neophilologus 85:1 (2001): 121-36.
2. Mary E. Shaner, 'Instruction and Delight: Medieval Romances as Children's Literature', Poetics Today 13:1 (1992): 5-15.

Sir Eglamour of Artois

1. Wim, Tigges, 'Sir Eglamour: The Knight Who Could Not Say No', Neophilologus 72:1 (1988): 107-115.

Sir Tryamour

1. There does not appear to be anything published recently on this poem.

Troilus and Criseyde

1. See my online Chaucer Bibliography.

The Auchinleck Manuscript

1. Fred Porcheddu, 'Edited Text and Medieval Artifact: The Auchinleck Bookshop and 'Charlemagne and Roland' Theories, Fifty Years Later', Philological Quarterly 80:4 (2001): 463-500.
2. T.A. Shonk, 'A Study of the Auchinleck Manuscript: Bookmen and Bookmaking in the Early Fourteenth Century', Speculum, 60 (1985): 71-91.
3. For further references, see the bibliography for the online edition, which is organised by text and topic.