BOOKS IN THE LLS FACULTY LIBRARY ON HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE


(6) OLD and MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS

Poetry

Alexander, Michael (ed.). Beowulf. London: Penguin.
CONS.FIL.GER.115

Barbour, John (with a transl. by A.A.M. Duncan) (1997). The Bruce. Edinburgh: Canongate.
INGL.2.2906

Barron, W.R.J. (ed., intro., transl., notes) (1974). Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Manchester University Press.
INGL.3.1496

Blake, N.F. (ed.) (rev. ed. 1990). The Phoenix. Exeter: University of Exeter Press.,
IST.INGL.1302

Bradley, S.A.J. (1992 repr.). Anglo-Saxon Poetry: an Anthology of Old English Poems in Prose Translation, with introduction and headnotes. London/Rutland, Vt.: Dent/Tuttle.
CONS.FIL.GERM.20

Brunetti, Giuseppe (1998). le battaglie di Maldon: eroi e traditori nell’Inghilterra vichinga. Milano/Trento: Luni [contains: The Battle of Maldon; The Battle of Brunaburh; A-S Chronicle 979-1020]
CONS.FIL.GER.181

Casieri, Sabino (1956). Poemi, Frammenti ed Iscrizioni anglosassoni. Varese/Milano: Cisalpina. [orig. and facing Italian transl.; Helen, Waldere, Maldon, Finnsburgh, Widsith, Caedmon’s Hymn, and three inscriptions]
INGL.3.411

Crépin, André (1991). Beowulf: édition diplomatique et texte critique, traduction française, commentaires et vocabulaire. Göppingen: Kümmerle.
TED.2.1598

Economou, George (1996). William Langland’s Piers Plowman: the C Version: a verse translation. Philadelphia: U Pennsylvania P.
INGL3L4463

Gordon, Ida (ed.) (1996). The Seafarer. Exeter: U. Exeter P.
CONS.FIL.GER.172

Gradon, P.O.E. (ed.) (1996). Cynewulf’s Elene. Exeter: U. Exeter P.
CONS.FIL.GER.177

Griffith, Mark (ed.) (1997). Judith. Exeter: U. Exeter P.[93 pp. Introduction ‘a model guide to the major technical areas in A-S studies... including a brilliantly lucid exercise in the analysis of metrical grammar’ TLS]
CONS.FIL.GER.174

Henryson, Robert (ed. Denton Fox) (1987). The Poems. Oxford: Clarendon.
INGL.3.2825

Kane, George (1988). Piers Plowman. The A Version. Revised edition. Berkeley, CA: Athlone/U. California P.
INGL.3.2338/1

Kane, George & E. Talbot Donaldson (eds.) (rev. ed., 1988). Piers Plowman. The B Version. Revised edition. Berkeley, CA: Athlone/U. California P.
INGL.3.2338/2

Kane, George & George Russell (eds.) (1988). Piers Plowman. The C Version. Berkeley, CA: Athlone/U. California P.
INGL.3.2338/3

Koch, Ludovica (ed.) (1992). Beowulf. Torino: Einaudi.
TED.2.1579 (3 copies)

Langland, William. Boitani, Piero (introduzione) & Stefania D’Agata D’Ottavii (trad. e note). Piero l’aratore. Milano: San Paolo. [testo a fronte]
INGL.3.3440

Leslie, Roy F. (ed.) (1985). The Wanderer. Exeter: U. Exeter P.
CONS.FIL.GER.169

Jack, George (ed.) (1995). Beowulf: a student edition. Oxford: Clarendon.
CONS.FIL.GER.116

Lucas, Peter (ed.) (1994). Exodus. Exeter: U. Exeter P.
CONS.FIL.GER.173

Macrae-Gibson, O.D. (ed.) 81983). The Old English Rhyming Poem. Cambridge: Brewer.
CONS.FIL.GER.195

Malone, Kemp (ed.) (1977). Deor. Exeter: U. Exeter P.
CONS.FILTED.171

Rodrigues, Louis J. (1990). Anglo-Saxon Riddles: with an introduction and translation from the Exeter Book. Llanerch.
TED.2.1457

Sisam, Celia & Kenneth Sisam (eds.) (1959). The Salisbury Psalter. Oxford: OUP/EETS (242)
CONS.FIL.GER.197

Smith, A.H. (ed.) (1978). Three Northumbrian Poems: Caedmon’s Hymn, Bede’s Death Song and the Leiden Riddle. Exeter: U. Exeter P.
CONS.FIL.GER.178

Timmer, B.J. (ed.) (1978). Judith. Exeter: U. Exeter P.
[see also Griffith]
CONS.FIL.GER.175

Trigg, Stephanie (ed.) (1990). Wynnere and Wastoure. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
IST.INGL.1226

Turville-Petre, Thorlac (1989). Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages. An Anthology. London: Routledge.
INGL.3.2499

Vantuono, William (ed.) (1984). The Pearl Poems: An Omnibus Edition. Vol 1: Pearl and Cleanness. Vol. 2: Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. New York/London: Garland.
INGL.3.2170/1-2

Woolf, Rosemary (ed.) (1993). Cynewulf’s Juliana. Exeter: U. Exeter P.
CONS.FIL.GER.176

Zimmermann, Gunhild (1995). The Four Old English Poetic manuscripts: Texts, Contexts, and Historical Background. Heidelberg: Winter (Anglistische Forschungen, Bd 230).
CONS.FIL.GERM.135

Prose

(a) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

1) Dumville, David (1995). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Vol 1: facsimile of MS F: the Domitian Bilingual. Cambridge: Brewer.
CONS.FIL.GER. 118
3) Bately, Janet M. (1986). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Vol 3 MS. A: a semi-dimplomatic edition with introduction and indices. Cambridge: Brewer.
CONS.FIL.GER.118
4) Taylor, Simon (ed. (1983). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Vol 4 MS.B: a semi-dimplomatic edition with introduction and indices. Cambridge: Brewer.
CONS.FIL.GER.118
6) Cubbin, G.P. (ed.) (1996). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Vol 6 MS.D: a semi-dimplomatic edition with introduction and indices. Cambridge: Brewer.
CONS.FIL.GER.118
10) Conner, Patrick W. (ed.) (1996). The Anglo-Saxon Chroncile. Vol. 10. The Abingdon Chronicle, A.D. 956-1066. Cambridge: Brewer.
CONS.FIL.GER.118
17) Dumville, David & Michael Lapidge (eds.) The Anglo-Saxon Chroncile. Vol. 17. The Annals of St. Neots with Vita prima Sancti Neoti. Cambridge: Brewer.
CONS.FIL.GER.118


a) Garmonsway, G.N. (transl. and ed.) (1972). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. London: Dent.
INGL.2.1634
b) Swanton, M.J. (ed.) (1990). An Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Exeter: U Exeter P.
TED.2.1460
c) Earle, John (revised Charles Plummer) (1899). Two of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles Parallel with supplementary extracts from the others. Oxford: Clarendon [Parker MS A, Laud MS E]
INGL.2.***

(b) others

Allen, Michael J.B. & Daniel G. Calder (1976). Sources and Analogues of Old English Poetry: the major Latin texts in translation. Cambridge/Totowa NJ: Brewer/Rowman & Littlefield.
TED.3.1131

Baker, Peter S. & Michael Lapidge (eds,) (1995). Byrhtferth’s Enchiridion. New York: Oxford University Press/EETS (Suppl Ser. 15)
INGL.3.4257

Bately, Janet (ed.) (1980). The Old English Orosius. Oxford: OUP/EETS (sup. ser., 6)
CONS.FIL.GER.198

Beade, Richard (1982). The York Plays. London: Arnold.
INGL.3.1920

Blamires, Alcuin (ed.) (1990). Women Defamed and Women Defended. An Anthology of Medieval Texts. Oxford: Clarendon [texts are translated into ModE from various languages incl. ME]
INGL.3.2200

Bodden, Mary-Catherine (ed.) (1987). The Old English Finding of the True Cross. Cambridge: Brewer
CONS-FIL.GER.194

Brown, Michell P. (1991). Anglo-Saxon Manuscrips. London: The British Library.
A.3.1464

Campbell, A. (ed.) (1973). Charters of Rochester. London: Oxford University Press/The British Academy (Anglo-Saxon Charters, 1)
CONS.FIL.GER.147

Crossley-Holland, *** (1982). The Anglo-Saxon World: an Anthology. Oxford/new York: Oxford University Press. [translations of poems and prose with introductions]
TED.2.1413

Davies, R.T. (ed.) (1972). The Corpus Christi Plays of the English Middle Ages. Faber & Faber. [modernized spelling]
INGL.3.1506

Fadda, A.M. Luiselli (a cura di) (1977). Nuove omelie anglosassoni della rinascenza benedettina. Firenze: Le Monnier. [text & Italian translation]
INGL.3.1434

Fisher, John H., Malcolm Richardson & Jane L. Fisher (eds.) (1984). An Anthology of Chancery English. Knoxville: U. Tennessee P.
INGL.3.2148

Furnivall, F.J. (1896/1967). The Digby Plays. Oxford: Oxford University Press/EETS.
INGL.3.2339

Görlach, Manfred (ed.) (1994). The Kalendre of the Newe Legende of Englande, edited from Pynson’s printed edition 1516. Heidelberg: Universitäts Verlag C. Winiter.
INGL.3.3896

Grant, Raymond J.S. (1989). The B text of the Old English Bede: a linguistic commentary. Amsterdam ; Atlanta: Rodopi (Costerus. New series, 73). [see also Miller]
TED.3. 0993

Henel, Heinrich (ed.) (1942). Ælfric's De Temporibus anni. Oxford: OUP/EETS (o.s., 213)
CONS.FIL.GER.196

Hollis, Stephanie & Michael Wright (1992). Old English Prose of Secular Learning. Cambridge: Brewer (Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature, 4)
CONS.FIL.GER.192

Hudson, Anne (ed.) (1978). Selections from English Wycliffite Writings. Cambridge University Press.
INGL.3.2232

Hudson, Anne & Pamela Graddon (eds.) (1983, 1988, 1990). English Wycliffite Sermons (3 vols.). Oxford: Clarendon.
INGL.3.2241/1-3

Kemble, John M. (additional notes and translations by Bill Griffiths) (1991). Anglo-Saxon Runes. Pinner: Anglo-Saxon books.
TED.2. 1459

Lumiansky, R.M. & David Mills (eds.) (1974, 1986). The Chester Mystery Cycle (2 vols). Oxford: Oxford University Press/EETS.
INGL.3.2249/1-2

Lumiansky, R.M. & David Mills (eds.) (1983). The Chester Mystery Cycle: Essays and Documents. Chapel Hill/London: N. Carolina U.P.
INGL.3.2863

Macauley, G.C. (ed.) (1900). The English Works of John Gower (2 vols). Oxford: Oxford University Press/EETS.
INGL.3.1713/1-2

Meech, Sanford Brown & Hope Emily Allen (eds.) (1940). The Book of Margery Kempe. Oxford: Oxford University Press/EETS
INGL.3.2712

Meredith, Peter (ed.) (1987). ‘The Mary Play’ from the N Town Manuscript. London: Longman.
INGL.3.2374

Miller, Thomas (ed., transl, intro.) (1997 repr.). The Old English Version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Oxford: Oxford University Press/EETS. [see also Grant]
CONS.FIL.GER.156/1-2

Millet, Bella & Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (eds.) (1990). Medieval English Prose for Women. From the Katherine Group and ‘Ancrene Wisse’. Oxford: Clarendon. [introduction, texts, translations, commentary, glossary]
INGL.3.2771

Minnis, A:J. (ed.) (1987). The Medieval Boethius: Studies in the vernacular translation sof De Consolatione Philosophiae. Cambridge: Brewer.
CONS.FIL.GER.179

Morris, R. (ed.) (1967). The Blickling Homilies. London: OUP/EETS- [includes a translation, an index of words, and the Blickling Glosses]
CONS.FIL.GER.154

Nicholson, Lewis E. (1991). The Vercelli Book Homilies. Translated from the Anglo-Saxon. Lanham: Uuniv. Press of America.
TED.3.952

Pope, John C. (ed., intro., notes etc.) (1967). The Homilies of Ælfric: a supplementary collection... London: OUP/EETS.
CONS.FIL.TED.155/1-2

Pulisiano, Phillip, A.N. Doane & Ronald E. Buckalew (1994). Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Binghamton (N.Y.): Center for Medieval & Early Renaissance studies.
[microform]

Scragg, D.G. (ed.). The Vercelli Homilies and Related Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press (EETS, orig. ser. 300).
CONS.FIL.GER.51

Sisam, Celia & Kenneth Sisam (eds.) (1959). The Salisbury Psalter. Oxford: OUP/EETS (242)
CONS.FIL.GER.197

Skeat, Walter (ed.) (1966). Aelfric's Lives of Saints. Oxford OUP/EETS (Orig. ser. 76)
CONS:FIL:GER.222/1-2

Smith, Andrea B. (ed.) (1985). Teh Anonymous Parts of the Old English Hexateuch: a Latin-Old English, Old English-Latin Glossary. Cambridge: Brewer.
CONS.FIL.GER.193

Stevens, Martin & A.C. Cawley (eds.) The Townley Plays. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press/EETS (Supp. Ser. 13-14).
INGL.3.4221

Swanton, Michael (ed. and transl.) (1993). Anglo-Saxon Prose. London/Vermont: Dent/Tuttle.
CONS.FIL.GER.152

Sweet, Henry (15th ed., rev. Whitelock) (1876/1967). Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse. Oxford: Clarendon.
INGL.2.1803

Sweet, Henry (rev. Hoad) (1887/1978). A Second Anglo-Saxon Reader: archaic and dialectal. Oxford: Calrendon.
INGL.2.606

Sweet, Henry (ed.) (1885). The Oldest English Texts. Oxford: OUP/EETS (o.s., 83)
CONS.FIL.GER.199

Tolkien, J.R.R. (intro. By N.R. Ker) (1962). The E Text of the Ancrene Riwle. Ancrene Wisse. (Corpus Cristi ms. 402). London/New York/Toronto: Oxford University Press/EETS.
INGL.3.2646

Whitelock, Dorothy (ed.) (1976). Sermo Lupi ad Anglos. Exeter: U. Exeter P.
CONS.FIL.GER.170

Studies

Alford, John A. (1988). A Companion to ‘Piers Ploughman’. University of California Press.
INGL.3.2752

Baum, Paull F. (1961). Chaucer’s Verse. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
INGL.3.882

Benson, C. David (1980). The History of Troy in Middle English Literature. Cambridge: Brewer.
INGL.3.1929

Bigg, Frederick M., T. Hill and P.E. Szarmach (1990). Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture: a trial version. Binghamton, NY: Center for Med. and Early Ren. Studies.
TED.3.1175

Biggam, C.P. (1997). Blue in Old English: an interdisciplinary study. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
INGL.3.4461

Blake, N.F. (1985). The Textual Tradition of "The Canterbury Tales". London: Arnold.
IST.INGL.1286

Boitani, Piero (con un saggio di Anna Torti) (1991). La letteratura del Medioevo inglese. Firenze: La Nuova Italia Scientifica.
IST.INGL.1210 and INGL.3.2904

Boitani, Piero (1998). La narrativa del medioeveo inglese. Milano/Trento: Luni.
INGL.2.2905

Boitani, Piero & Anna Torti (eds.) (1986). Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature: from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century [the J.A.W. Bennett Memorial Lectures, Perugia, 1986]. Tübingen: Narr.
IST.INGL.1342

Boitani, Piero & Jill Mann (eds.) (1986). The Cambridge Chaucer Companion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
INGL.3.2429

Bolton, W. F. (ed.) (1987). The Middle Ages. London: Sphere Reference.
IST.INGL.1321

Brewer, Derek (1984). Chaucer: The Poet as Storyteller. London: Macmillan
INGL.3.1961

Brewer, Charlotte (1996). Editing Piers Plowman: the evolution of the text. Cambridge: CUP.
INGL.3.4436

Brewer, Derek & J. Gibson (eds.) (1997). a Companion to the Gawain Poet. Cambridge: Brewer.
CONS.FIL.GER.161

Burnley, David (1979). Chaucer’s Language and the Philosophers’ Tradition. Cambridge: Brewer.
INGL.3.3415

Burnley, David (1983). The Language of Chaucer. London: Macmillan.
INGL.3.2343 andIST.INGL.971

Burrow, J.A. (1965). A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
INGL.3.1495

Cable, Thomas (1991). The English Alliterative Tradition. U Pennsylvania P.
CONS.FIL.GERM.120

Cannon, Christopher (1998). The making of Chaucer's English: a study of words. CUP.
INGL.3.4820

Craig, Hardin (ed.) (1957). The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays. Oxford. Oxford University Press/EETS.
ENGL.3.2248

Crawford, William R. (1967). Bibliography of Chaucer 1954-1963. U Washington Press.
INGL.3.847

Doane, A.N. & Carol Braun Pasternak (1991). Vox Intexta: orality and textuality in the Middle Ages. Madison, WI/London: U Wisconsin P.
CONS.FIL.GER.110

Edwards, A.S.G. (1984). Middle English Prose: A Critical Guide to Major Authors and Genres. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
IST.ING. 1333 and ING.3.2079

Godden, Malcolm & Michael Lapidge (eds.) (1991). The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature. Cambridge University Press.
IST.INGL.1265 and CONS. FIL.GER.11

Goldsmith, Mary E. (1981). The Figure of Piers Plowman. Cambridge: Brewer.
INGL.3.2046

Griffith, Dudley David (1955). Bibliography of Chaucer 1908-1953. U Washington Press.
INGL.3.836

Hammond, Eleanor Prescott (1933). Chaucer, A Bibliographical Manual. New York: Peter Smith.
INGL.3.788

Hilgers, Sister Mary (1992). A Study of the Middle English Bird Debate: backgrounds, form, matter, and characterization. Ann Arbor: UMI.
INGL.2.2165

Hinckley, Henry Barrett (1907/1970). Notes on Chaucer. A Commentary on the Prologue and Six Canterbury Tales. New York: Haskell House.
INGL.3.976

Hudson, Anne (1985). Lollards and their Books. London/Ronceverte: Hambledon.
INGL.3.2233

Kane, George (1984). Chaucer. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
IST.INGL.1155

Kenny, Anthony (1985). Wyclif, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
IST.INGL.1308

Kittredge, G.L. (1891/1969). Observations on the Language of Chaucer’s ‘Troilus’. New York: Russell & Russell.
INGL.3.972

Kluge, Friedrich & M. Bentinck Smith (1968). The Language and Metre of Chaucer as set forth by Berhard Ten Brink. New York: Haskell House.
INGL.3.977

Korhammer, Michael (ed.) (1992). Words, Texts and Manuscripts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture Presented to Helmut Gneuss on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Cambridge: Brewer.
TED.3.986

Mehl, Dieter (1986). Geoffrey Chaucer; An Introduction to his Narrative Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
INGL.3.2380

Mersand, Joseph (1939). Chaucer’s Romance Vocabulary. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press.
INGL.3.835

Minnis, A.J. (1987). The Medieval Boethius: studies in the vernacular translations of De Consolatione Philosophiae. Cambridge: Brewer.
CONS.FIL.GER.179

Mueller, Janel M. (1984). The Native Tongue and the Word. Developments in English Prose Style 1380-1580. U Chicago P. [importance of ‘Scripturalism’ or Bible imitatio]
INGL.3.2090

O’Keefe, Katerine O’Brien (1997). Reading Old English Texts. CUP.
CONS.FIL.GER.206

Orchard, Andy (1994). The Poetic Art of Aldhelm. Cambridge University Press.
TED:3.1168

Orchard, Andy (1995). Pride and Prodigies: studies in the monsters of the Beowulf-manuscript. Cambridge: Brewer.
CONS.FIL.GER.48

Page, R.I. (ed. Parsons) (1995). Runes and Runic Inscriptions: Collected Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Runes. Woodbridge: Boydell.
TED.3.1195

Robinson, Ian (1971). Chaucer’s Prosody. A Study of the Middle English Verse Tradition. Cambridge University Press.
INGL.3.748

Roscow, Gregory (1981). Syntax and Style in Chaucer’s Poetry. Cambridge: Brewer (Chaucer Studies, 6).
?INGL.3.2250

Rowland, Beryl (1968). A Companion to Chaucer Studies. Oxford University Press.
INGL.3.787

Salu, Mary (1979). Essays on Troilus and Criseyde. Cambridge: Brewer (Chaucer Studies, 3)
INGL.3.1947

Sanved, Arthur O. (1988). Introduction to Chaucerian English. Cambridge: Brewer (Chaucer Studies, 11).
?INGL.3.2251

Scharader, Richard (1993). Old English Poetry and the Geneology of Events. East Lansing, Mich: Colleagues Press.
CONS..FIL.GER,112

Shippey, Tom (1997). ‘Langland, the scribes, and the editors’. TLS 22.8.97: 12-13 [surveys controversy concerning the A/B/C-version model]
PER INGL.43

Simpson, James (1990). ‘Piers Ploughman’: An Introduction to the B-Text. London: Longman.
INGL.3.2753

Spurgeon, Caroline F.E. (1925). Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion, 1375-1900. 3 vols. New York: Russell & Russell.
INGL.3.1124/1-3

Sypherd, William Owen (1907). Studies in Chaucer’s House of Fame. New York: Kaskell House.
INGL.3.1094

Vance, Eugene (1989). Mervelous signals: poetics and signals: poetics and sign theory in the Middle Ages. Lincoln/London: University of Nebraska Press.
IST.INGL.1267

Whitelock, D. (1980). From Bede to Alfred: Studies in Early Anglo-Saxon Literature and History. London: Variorum Reprints.
CONS.FIL.GER.118

Whittock, Trevor (1978). A Reading of the Canterbury Tales. Cambridge University Press.
INGL.3.760

 

 


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