Medieval Period Bibliography

D.J. Ransom, Poets at Play: Irony and Parody in the
Harley Lyrics, 1985.
A.C. Spearing, Readings in Medieval Poetry, 1987.
Rosemary Woolf, The English Religious Lyric in the
Middle Ages, 1968
Noah’s Flood
Text: Spelling and punctuation have been substantially
modernized, but alterations that would affect rhythm
or rhyme have been avoided. Of the various editions
in Middle English, we have consulted that edited by
Lumiansky and Mills most frequently.
Editions and translations:
Hermann Deimling, ed., The Chester Plays, 1892.
Thomas J. Garbàty, ed., Medieval English Literature,
1984.
Vincent Foster Hopper, ed., Medieval Mystery Plays, 1962.
R.M. Lumiansky and David Mills, eds., The Chester
Mystery Cycle, 1974.
Criticism:
John A. Alford, ed., From Page to Performance: Essays in
Early English Drama, 1995.
Richard Beadle, ed., The Cambridge Companion to
Medieval English Theatre, 1994.
V.A. Kolve, The Play Called Corpus Christi, 1966.
David Mills, ed., Staging the Chester Cycle, 1985.
Sondra Rosenberg, The Five Noah Plays, 1963.
Colette Marie Thomas, Timelessness in the Noah Mystery
Plays, 1991.
Glynne Wickham, ed., Early English Stages 1300–1600:
Volume One, 1959.
Rosemary Woolf, The English Mystery Plays, 1972.
Thomas Wright, The Medieval Theatre, 1995.
Old English Metrical Charms
Texts: These texts have been newly translated by R. M.
Liuzza for this anthology; the Dobbie edition has
been relied on for the Old English texts on which
the translations are based.
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Editions:
Elliot Van Kirk Dobbie, The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems,
1942.
Edward Pettit, ed. and trans., Anglo-Saxon Remedies,
Charms, and Prayers from British Library MS Harley
585: “The Lacnunga,” 2 vols., 2001.
Translations:
Stephen Pollington, Leechcraft: Early English Charms,
Plant Lore, and Healing, 2000.
Criticism:
Lois Bragg, “The Modes of the Old English Metrical
Charms—the Texts of Magic,” New Approaches to
Medieval Textuality, ed. Mikle David Ledgerwood,
1998: 117–40.
M.L. Cameron, “Anglo-Saxon Medicine and Magic,”
Anglo-Saxon England 17, 1988: 191–215.
Stephen O. Glosecki, “‘Blow these vipers from me’:
Mythic Magic in The Nine Herbs Charm,” Essays on
Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in
Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr., ed. Loren C.
Gruber, Meredith Crellin Gruber, and Gregory K.
Jember, 2000: 91–123.
Stephen O. Glosecki, Shamanism and Old English
Poetry, 1989.
Stanley R. Hauer, “Structure and Unity in the Old
English Charm Wið Færstice,” English Language
Notes 15, 1978: 250–57.
Karen Louise Jolly, “Anglo-Saxon Charms in the
Context of a Christian World View,” Journal of
Medical History 11, 1985: 279–93.
Karen Louise Jolly, “Medieval Magic: Definitions,
Beliefs, Practices,” Witchcraft and Magic in Europe:
The Middle Ages, ed. Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart
Clark, 2002: 1–71.
Karen Louise Jolly, Popular Religion in Late Saxon
England: Elf Charms in Context, 1996.
John D. Niles, “Pagan Survivals and Popular Belief,”
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature,
ed. Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge, 1991:
126–41.
Winfried Nöth, “Semiotics of the Old English Charm,”
Semiotica 19, 1977: 59–83.
Edward Pettit, “Some Anglo-Saxon Charms,” Essays on