Medieval Period Bibliography

16 Broadview Anthology of British Literature
Editions and translations:
Patrick K. Ford, trans., The Mabinogi and Other
Medieval Welsh Tales, 1977.
Charlotte Guest, ed. and trans., The Mabinogion, 1906.
Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones, trans., The Mabinogion,
rev. ed., 1991.
Proinsias Mac Cana, The Mabinogi, 1977.
R.L. Thompson, Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet: The First of the
Four Branches of the Mabinogi, 1957.
Criticism:
Andrew Breeze, Medieval Welsh Literature, 1997.
Patrick K. Ford, “Prolegomena to a Reading of the
Mabinogi: ‘Pwyll’ and ‘Manawydan,’” Studia Celtica
16/17, 1981–82: 110–25.
Jessica Hemming, “Reflections on Rhiannon and the
Horse Episodes in ‘Pwyll’,” Western Folklore 57
1998:19–40.
Proinsias Mac Cana, The Mabinogi, 2 nd ed., 1992.
Charles Sullivan, ed., The Mabinogi: A Book of Essays,
1996.
Donna Rae White, The Mabinogi in Children’s Literature,
1991.
Sir Thomas Malory
Text: Spelling and punctuation have been substantially
modernized for this anthology. Of the various
editions in Middle English, we have relied particularly
on that edited by Eugene Vinaver.
Editions:
Stephen H.A. Shepherd, Le Morte D’Arthur, or, The
Hoole Book Kyng Arthur and of his Noble Knyghtes of
the Rounde Table: Authoritative Text, Sources and
Backgrounds, Criticism, 2004.
James W. Spisak, William Matthews, and Bert Dillon,
eds., Caxton’s Malory, 1983.
Eugene Vinaver, ed., The Works of Sir Thomas Malory,
1968.
Eugene Vinaver, ed., King Arthur and his Knights:
Selected Tales, 1975.
Biographies:
M.C. Bradbook, Sir Thomas Malory, 1958.
P.J.C. Field, The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory,
1993.
Christina Hardyment, Malory: The Life and Times of
King Arthur’s Chronicler, 2005.
Edward Hicks, Sir Thomas Malory, his Turbulent Career:
A Biography, 1970.
William Matthews, The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical
Inquiry into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory, 1966.
Criticism:
Elizabeth Archibald and A.S.G. Edwards, eds. A
Companion to Malory, 1996.
Dorsey Armstrong, Gender and the Chivalric Community
in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, 2003.
J.A.W. Bennett, ed., Essays on Malory, 1963.
W.R.J. Barron, The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian
Legend in Medieval English Life, 1999.
Mark Lambert, Malory: Style and Vision in Le Morte
D’Arthur, 1975.
R.M. Lumiansky, ed., Malory’s Originality: A Critical
Study of Le Morte D’Arthur, 1964.
Andrew Lynch, Malory's Book of Arms: The Narrative of
Combat in Le Morte D’Arthur, 1997.
Charles Moorman, The Book of Kyng Arthur: The Unity
of Malory’s Morte D’Arthur, 1965.
Bonnie Wheeler, Robert L. Kindrick, and Michael
Norman Salda, eds., The Malory Debate: Essays on
the Texts of Le Morte D’Arthur, 2000.
K.S. Whetter, Raluca L. Radulescu, and P.J.C. Field,
eds., Re-Viewing Le Morte Darthur: Texts and
Contexts, Characters and Themes, 2005.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Text: Originally written in Anglo-Norman French, the
Travels was very widely translated in the late
medieval period—-into Latin and several European
languages as well as into English. Five medieval
translations into English are extant. Of these, the
translation known as the Defective Version (which
omits the second quire of the original, containing a
good deal of material concerning Egypt) was the