Seminar für Englische Philologie
Universität Göttingen
Here is a highly selective bibliography containing some publications dealing with Middle English Literature which you may find helpful. The list is by no means exhaustive.
Contents:
1. TEXTBOOKS
Bennett, J. A. W., and G. V. Smithers,
Early Middle English Verse and Prose, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1968)
Burrow, J. A., and T. Turville-Petre,
A Book of Middle English, 3rd ed. (Oxford, 2004)
Mossé, F.,
A Handbook of Middle English, trans. J. A. Walker (Baltimore, MD, 1952) =
Handbuch des Mittelenglischen, trans. H. Pilch and U. Siewert (Ismaning, 1969)
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2. BACKGROUND
Krieger, K.-F.,
Geschichte Englands von den Anfängen bis zum 15. Jahrhundert, 3rd ed. (Munich, 2002)
Saul, N., ed.,
The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England (Oxford, 1997)
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3. SURVEYS
Baugh, A. C.,
'The Middle English Period (1100-1500)', in A Literary History of England, 2nd ed., ed. A. C. Baugh, vol. 1, part 2, pp. 107-312 (London, 1967)
Bennett, J. A. W., et al., ed.,
The Oxford History of English Literature, vols. I-III, rev. ed. (Oxford, 1990) = vols I.2-II.2 (orig. ed.)
Bennett, J. A. W., and D. Gray,
Middle English Literature
(Oxford, 1986)
Burrow, J. A.,
Medieval Writers and Their Work
(Oxford, 1982)
Corrie, M., ed.,
A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature
(Oxford, 2007)
Galloway, A.,
History of Middle English Literature
(Oxford, 2006)
Johnson, D., and E. Treharne, ed.,
Readings in Medieval Texts
(Oxford, 2005)
Lambdin, L. C., and R. T. Lambdin,
A Companion to Old and Middle English Literature (Westport, CT, 2002)
Lambdin, R. T., and L. C. Lambdin, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature (London, 2000)
Turville-Petre, T.,
Reading Middle English Literature
(Malden, MA, 2006)
Wallace, D., ed.,
The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
(Cambridge, 1999)
Wells, J. W., et al., ed.,
A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050-1500 , rev. ed., 11 vols. (out of 12) (New Haven, CT, 1967-[ongoing publication])
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4. ANTHOLOGIES
Burnley, D.,
The History of the English Language: a Source Book, 2nd ed. (Harlow, 2000)
Treharne, E. M.,
Old and Middle English: an Anthology, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2004)
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5. SPECIFIC WORKS
Archibald, E., ed.,
A Companion to Malory (Cambridge, 1996)
Brewer, D., ed.,
A Companion to the Gawain-Poet (Cambridge, 1997)
Barron, W. R. J.,
English Medieval Romance (London and New York, 1987)
Benson, L. D., ed.,
The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd ed. (Oxford, 1987)
Brown, P., ed.,
A Companion to Chaucer (Oxford, 2000)
Echard, S., ed.,
A Companion to Gower (Cambridge, 2004)
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