Reading List and Instructions for Middle English PhD Exam in Literature

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1 Reading List and Instructions for Middle English PhD Exam in Literature Students should choose thirty primary sources and fifteen secondary sources from the following lists. The purpose of these lists is to encourage wide reading throughout the entire medieval period, and to suggest works with which every educated medievalist should be familiar. Students may then add five further works, either primary or secondary sources, specific to their own interests (which may include works on this list or from the students personal list) for a total of fifty items. All primary sources must be read in the original language, unless otherwise specified. This list is intended as a guide. Students who feel that their interests are not adequately represented may petition their committee for adjustments. Athelstan Alliterative Morte Arthure Amis and Amiloun Ancrene Wisse The Avowyng of Arthur The Antwyrs of Arthur Bevis of Hampton Primary Sources in Middle English (Many of these texts can be found on TEAMS Texts online Bokenham, Osbern, Legendys of Hooly Wummen The Book of Margery Kempe, ed. Lynn Staley Capgrave, John, The Life of Saint Katherine The Carle of Carlisle Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women Chaucer, The Parlement of Fowles Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde Clanvowe, John, The Booke of Cupide, God of Love Cleanness

2 2 The Cloud of Unknowing Dame Sirith Dunbar, William The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo and Selections Emaré The English Writings of Richard Rolle English Wycliffite Writings, ed. Anne Hudson (selections) Everyman Floris and Blancheflour The Fox and the Wolf A Gest of Robyn Hode Gower, Confessio Amantis (selections) Havelok the Dane Henryson, Testament of Cresseid Hilton, Walter, The Ladder of Perfection Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes Julian of Norwich, Book of Showings (long version) Katherine Group, Seinte Katerine, ed. D Ardenne and Dobson; Seinte Margaret and Hali Meithhad, ed. Millett & Wogan-Browne King Horn La 3 aman, Brut (selections) Langland, Piers Plowman B Text The Letter of John Ball The Life of Christina of Markyate, A Twelfth Century Recluse (trans.) Lydgate, Fall of Princes Lydgate, The Troy Book Maidstone, Richard, Concordia (The Reconciliation of Richard II with London) Malory, Works. Vinaver or Shepherd edition Mandeville, Travels Mankind Marie de France, Lais (trans.) Middle English Lyrics (Norton, Luria, or TEAMS Texts online) 2

3 3 The N-Town Plays Owl and the Nightingale The Parlement of the Thre Ages Patience Pearl Piers the Plowman s Crede Prose Merlin Richard the Redeless The Second Shepherds' Play from the Wakefield aka Towneley Cycle (available in the Norton Anthology of English Literature and the Longman Anthology of British Literature) Siege of Jerusalem St. Erkenwald Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Launfal Sir Orfeo South English Legendary (selections) Stanzaic Morte Arthur The Statute of Labourers, 1349 The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell Wynnere and Wastoure York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling, eds. Richard Beadle and Pamela King Ywain and Gawain Other Important Medieval Primary Sources Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love Boccaccio, Giovanno, The Decameron Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (trans.) Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances (selections in trans.) Christine de Pisan, Book of the City of Ladies (trans.) Dante, Divine Comedy 3

4 4 Froissart, Chronicles (trans.) Gottfried von Strassburg, Tristan and Isolt Guillaume de Lorris & Jean de Meun, Romance of the Rose (trans.) Mabinogion (trans.) The Vulgate Cycle Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzifal Secondary Sources Aers, David. Community, Gender, and Individual Identity Alford, John A. A Companion to Piers Plowman Archibald, Elizabeth, and A. S. G. Edwards. A Companion to Malory Barron, W. R. J. English Medieval Romance Baugh, Albert C., and Thomas Cable. History of the English Language Beadle, Richard, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre Bennett, J. A. W., and Douglas Gray. Middle English Literature Benson, C. David. Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture Benson, Larry D. Art and Tradition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Malory's Morte D Arthur Besserman, Larry. Chaucer s Biblical Poetics Brewer, Derek, and Jonathan Gibson, eds. A Companion to the Gawain-Poet Burrow, John. Ricardian Poetry Burrow, J. A., and Thorlac Turville-Petre. A Book of Middle English Bynum, Caroline Walker. Holy Feast, Holy Fast Chism, Christine. Alliterative Revivals. Pittsburgh: U of Pennsylvania Press, Clanchy, M.T. From Memory to Written Record: England nd ed Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed. The Postcolonial Middle Ages Cooper, Helen. Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. 2nd ed Copeland, Rita. Rhetoric, Hermeneutics and Translation in the Middle Ages: Academic Traditions and Vernacular Texts Dinshaw, Carolyn. Chaucer s Sexual Poetics Donaldson, E. T. Speaking of Chaucer

5 5 Duncan, Thomas. A Companion to the Middle English Lyric Echard, Sian. A Companion to Gower Edwards, A. S. G. Middle English Prose: A Critical Guide to Major Authors and Genres Field, P. J. C. The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory Gibson, Gail McMurray. The Theatre of Devotion Green, Richard Firth. Poets and Princepleasers Justice, Steven. Writing and Rebellion: England in Kolve, V. A. The Play Called Corpus Christi Leicester, H. Marshal. The Disenchanted Self: Representing the Subject in The Canterbury Tales Lindahl, Carl. Earnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in The Canterbury Tales Loomis, R. S., ed. Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages Mann, Jill. Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire Metlitzki, Dorothee. The Matter of Araby in Medieval England Middle English Dictionary (available online through the Middle English Compendium in Libros) Minnis, A. J. Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages Moll, Richard J. Before Malory: Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England Mossé, Ferdinand. A Handbook of Middle English Murphy, James T. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theory from St Augustine to the Renaissance. 1974, repr Nichols, Stephen G., ed. The New Philology. Speculum 65.1 (1990): O Connell, Michael. The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early Modern England Patterson, Lee. Negotiating the Past Pearsall, Derek. The Canterbury Tales The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography Rogers, William Elford. Interpretation in Piers Plowman Saul, Nigel. Richard II Shahar, Shulamith. The Fourth Estate Staley, Lynn. Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II

6 6 Strohm, Paul. Theory and the Premodern Text Turville Petre, Thorlac. The Alliterative Revival Wallace, David. The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature Wetherbee, Winthrop. Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde Wogan-Brown, Jocelyn. Saints Lives and Women's Literary Culture c : Virginity and Its Authorizations Woolf, Rosemary. The English Religious Lyric in the Middle Ages Last updated April

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