Medieval Period Bibliography

Criticism:
Robin Ann Aronstam, “The Blickling Homilies: a
Reflection of Popular Anglo-Saxon Belief,” Law,
Church, and Society: Essays in Honor of Stephan
Kuttner, ed. Kenneth Pennington and Robert
Somerville, 1977: 271–80.
J.E. Cross, “Vernacular Sermons in Old English,” The
Sermon, ed. Beverly Mayne Kienzle, 2000: 561–96.
Marcia A. Dalbey, “Themes and Techniques in the
Blickling Lenten Homilies,” The Old English Homily
and its Backgrounds, ed. P. Szarmach and B. Huppé,
1978: 221–39.
Julia Dietrich, “The Liturgical Context of Blickling
Homily X,” American Notes and Queries 18, 1980:
138–39.
Robert DiNapoli, An Index of Theme and Image to the
Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church, 1995.
Milton McC. Gatch, “The Unknowable Audience of
the Blickling Homilies,” Anglo-Saxon England 18,
1989: 99–115.
Joyce Hill, “Monastic Reform and the Secular Church,”
England in the Eleventh Century: Proceedings of the
1990 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. Carola Hicks, 1992:
103–17.
J. Elizabeth Jeffrey, Blickling Spirituality and the Old
English Vernacular Homily: A Textual Analysis, 1989.
D.R. Letson, “The Form of the Old English Homily,”
American Benedictine Review 30, 1979: 399–431.
Alex Nicholls, “The Corpus of Prose Saints’ Lives and
Hagiographic Pieces in Old English and its
Manuscript Distribution,” Reading Medieval Studies
20, 1994: 51–87.
Alexandra Olsen, “The Homiletic Tradition in Old
English,” In Geardagum 18, 1997: 1–13.
Ingrid Ranum, “Blickling Homily X and the Millennial
Apocalyptic Vision,” In Geardagum 19, 1998:
41–49.
D.G. Scragg, “The Corpus of Vernacular Homilies and
Prose Saints’ Lives Before Ælfric,” Anglo-Saxon
England 8, 1979: 223–77.
D.G. Scragg, “The Homilies of the Blickling
Manuscript,” Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon
England: Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the
Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, ed. Michael
Lapidge and Helmut Gneuss, 1985: 299–316.
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D.G. Scragg, Dating and Style in Old English Composite
Homilies, 1999.
Paul E.Szarmach and Bernard F. Huppé, eds., The Old
English Homily and its Backgrounds, 1978.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Text: This anthology uses text and notes prepared by
Robert Boenig and Andrew Taylor for their
forthcoming Broadview edition. Boenig and Taylor
work mainly from the Ellesmere but they draw
attention in their notes to significant variants.
Editions:
Robert Boeing and Andrew Taylor, eds., The Canterbury
Tales, 2007.
A.C. Cawley, ed., The Canterbury Tales, 1991.
Larry D. Benson et al., eds., The Riverside Chaucer,
1987.
E. Talbot Donaldson, ed., Chaucer’s Poetry: An Anthology
for the Modern Reader, 1958.
Paul G. Ruggiers and Donald M. Rose, eds., The
Facsimile Series of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer,
1980–87.
Biographies:
Derek Brewer, Chaucer in his Time, 1964.
Derek Pearsall, The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical
Biography, 1992.
Velma Bourgeois Richmond, Geoffrey Chaucer, 1992.
Criticism:
Piero Boitani, ed., The Cambridge Chaucer Companion,
1986.
Helen Cooper, ed., The Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The
Canterbury Tales, 2 nd ed., 1996.
Carolyn Dinshaw, Chaucer’s Sexual Poetics, 1989.
Steve Ellis, ed., Chaucer: An Oxford Guide, 2005.
Douglas Gray, ed., The Oxford Companion to Chaucer,
2003.
Seth Lerer, ed., The Yale Companion to Chaucer, 2006.
Lee Patterson, Chaucer and the Subject of History, 1991.
Derek Pearsall, ed., The Canterbury Tales, 1985.