Medieval Period Bibliography

4 Broadview Anthology of British Literature
Janet M. Bately, “The Compilation of the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle, 60 BC to AD 890: Vocabulary as
Evidence,” Proceedings of the British Academy 64,
1980: 93–129.
Janet M. Bately, “The Compilation of the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle Once More,” Sources and Relations: Studies
in Honour of J. E. Cross, ed. Marie Collins, Jocelyn
Price, and Andrew Hamer, 1985: 7–26.
Thomas A. Bredehoft, Textual Histories: Readings in the
“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,” 2001.
David Dumville, “What is a Chronicle?” The Medieval
Chronicle II: Proceedings of the 2nd International
Conference on the Medieval Chronicle Driebergen /
Utrecht 16–21 July 1999, ed. Erik Kooper, 2002:
1–27.
Sarah Foot, “Remembering, Forgetting and Inventing:
Attitudes to the Past in England at the End of the
First Viking Age,” Transactions of the Royal Histical
Society, 1999: 185–200.
Antonia Gransden, Historical Writing in England, c. 550
–1307, 1974.
Kenneth Harrison, “Early Wessex Annals in the Anglo-
Saxon Chronicle,” English Historical Review, 86,
1971: 527–33.
Richard P. Horvath, “History, Narrative, and the
Ideological Mode of The Peterborough Chronicle,”
Mediaevalia 17, 1994: 123–48.
Nicholas Howe, “An Angle on This Earth: Sense of
Place in Anglo-Saxon England,” Bull. of the John
Rylands Univ. Lib. of Manchester 82, 2000: 3–27.
Anton Scharer, “The Writing of History at King
Alfred’s Court,” Early Medieval Europe, 1996:
177–206.
Alice Sheppard, Families of the King: Writing Identity in
the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 2004.
The Battle of Maldon
Text: The poem has been newly translated by R.M.
Liuzza for this anthology.
Editions:
E.V. Gordon, ed., The Battle of Maldon, rev. ed., 1976.
D.G., Scragg, ed., The Battle of Maldon, 1981.
Bibliography:
Wendy E.J. Collier, “A Bibliography of the Battle of
Maldon,” The Battle of Maldon, AD 991, ed. Donald
Scragg, 1991: 294–301. Also online at
Criticism:
W.G. Busse, and R. Holtei, “The Battle of Maldon: A
Historical, Heroic and Political Poem,”
Neophilologus 65, 1981: 614–21.
Christopher M. Cain, “The ‘Fearful Symmetry’ of
Maldon: The Apocalypse, the Poet, and the
Millennium,” Comitatus 28, 1997: 1–16.
Janet Cooper, ed., The Battle of Maldon: Fiction and
Fact, 1993.
Craig R. Davis, “Cultural Historicity in The Battle of
Maldon,” Philological Quarterly 78, 1999: 151–69.
Paul Dean, “History Versus Poetry: The Battle of
Maldon,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 93, 1992:
99–108.
Roberta Frank, “The Battle of Maldon and Heroic
Literature,” The Battle of Maldon, AD 991, ed.
Donald Scragg, 1991: 196–207.
Roberta Frank, “The Ideal of Men Dying with their
Lord in The Battle of Maldon: Anachronism or
nouvelle vague?” People and Places in Northern Europe
500–1600: Essays in Honour of Peter Hayes Sawyer,
ed. Ian Wood and Niels Lund, 1991: 95–106.
John M. Hill, “Transcendental Loyalty in The Battle of
Maldon,” Mediaevalia 17, 1994: 67–88.
John M. Hill, The Anglo-Saxon Warrior Ethic: Reconstructing
Lordship in Early English Literature, 2000.
Simon Keynes, “The Historical Context of the Battle of
Maldon,” The Battle of Maldon AD 991, ed. Donald
Scragg, 1991: 81–113.
John D. Niles, “Maldon and Mythopoesis,” Mediaevalia
17, 1994: 89–121.
Mary P. Richards, “The Battle of Maldon in its
Manuscript Context,” Mediaevalia 7, 1984: 79–89.
Fred C. Robinson, “God, Death, and Loyalty in The
Battle of Maldon,” J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and
Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam, ed. Mary Salu and
Robert T. Farrell, 1979: 76–98.
Fred C. Robinson, “Some Aspects of the Maldon Poet’s