Seminar für Englische Philologie
Universität Göttingen
Here is a selective bibliography containing some important publications.
Contents:
1. Text Collections
Whitelock, D., ed.,
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse, 15th ed. (Oxford, 1967) fourth edition here
Sweet, H., ed., A Second Anglo-Saxon Reader: Archaic and Dialectal (Oxford, 1887)
Treharne, E., ed.,
Old and Middle English c.890 - c.1400: An Anthology, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2004)
Bennett, J. A. W., and G. V. Smithers,
Early Middle English Verse and Prose, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1968)
Mossé, F.,
A Handbook of Middle English, trans. J. A. Walker (Baltimore, MD, 1952)
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2. Old English Dialects
Brandl, A.,
Zur Geographie der altenglischen Dialekte (Berlin, 1915)
Campbell, A.,
Old English Grammar (Oxford, 1959), pp. 1-11
Crowley, J. P.,
'The Study of Old English Dialects', English Studies 67 (1986), 97-112
Hogg, R.,
A Grammar of Old English. Volume I: Phonology (Oxford and Cambridge, MA, 1992), pp. 1-19
Hogg, R.,
'Old English Dialectology', in The Handbook of the History of English, ed. A. van Kemenade and B. Los (Oxford, 2006), pp. 394-416
Kornexl, L.,
'Topics in Old English Dialects', in A Companion to the History of the English Language, ed. H. Momma and M. Matto (Oxford, 2008), pp. 172-179
Sauer, H.,
'Old English Word Geography: Some Problems and Results, in Anglistentag 1991 Düsseldof: Proceedings, ed. W. Busse (Tübingen, 1992), pp. 307-26
Toon, T. E.,
'Old English Dialects', in The Cambridge History of the English Language I: The Beginnings to 1066, ed. R. Hogg (Cambridge, 1992), pp. 409-51
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3. Early West Saxon
Barrack, C. M.,
A Diachronic Phonology from Proto-Germanic to Old English Stressing West-Saxon Conditions (The Hague, 1975)
Horgan, D. M.,
'The Distribution of West Saxon Dialect Criteria in the Extant Manuscripts of the Pastoral Care', Studia Neophilologica 54 (1982), 217-35
Waite, G., ed.,
Old English Prose Translations of King Alfred's Reign, Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature 6 (Cambridge, 2000)
Wyatt, A. J., ed., An Elementary Old English Grammar: Early West Saxon (Cambridge, 1897)
Wyatt, A. J., ed., An Elementary Old English Reader: Early West Saxon (Cambridge, 1901)
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4. Late West Saxon
Gneuss, H., 'The Origin of Standard Old English and Æthelwold's School at Winchester', Anglo-Saxon England 1 (1972), 63-83; reprinted in his Language and History in Early England (Aldershot and Brookfield, VT, 1996)
Gretsch, M., 'Winchester Vocabulary and Standard Old English: the Vernacular in Late Anglo-Saxon England', The T. Northcote Toller Memorial Lecture 2000, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library at Manchester 83 (2001), 41-87
Gretsch, M., 'In Search of Standard Old English', in Bookmarks from the Past: Studies in Early English Language and Literature in Honour of Helmut Gneuss, ed. L. Kornexl and U. Lenker (Frankfurt, 2003), pp. 33-67
Gretsch, M., 'A Key to Ælfric's Standard Old English', in Essays for Joyce Hill on her Sixtieth Birthday, ed. M. Swan, Leeds Studies in English 37 (Leeds, 2006), pp. 161-177
Quirk, R., and C. L. Wrenn, An Old English Grammar, 2nd ed., Methuen's Old English Library (London, 1957).
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5. Kentish
Kalbhen, U., Kentische Glossen und kentischer Dialekt im Altenglischen, Texte und Untersuchungen zur englischen Philologie 28 (Frankfurt, 2003)
Seebold, E., 'Kentish - and Old English Texts from Kent', in Words, Texts and Manuscripts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture Presented to Helmut Gneuss on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, ed. Michael Korhammer et al. (Cambridge, 1992), pp. 409-34
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6. Mercian
Biddulph, J.,
The Mercian Language: An Introduction to the English Midlands Dialect of Late Anglo-Saxon and Early Middle English (Pontypridd, 2004)
Brown, E. W.,
Die Sprache der Rushworth Glossen zum Evangelium Matthäus und der mercische Dialekt, 2 vols. (Göttingen, 1891-2)
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7. Northumbrian
O'Donnell, D. P., ed.,
Cædmon's Hymn: A Multi-Media Study, Edition and Archive with CD-ROM (Cambridge, 2007)
Skeat, W. W., ed.,
The Gospel according to Saint Matthew in Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian and Old Mercian Versions, new ed. (Cambridge, 1887)
Smith, A. H., ed.,
Three Northumbrian Poems, rev. ed. (Exeter, 1990)
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8. Middle English Dialects
Corrie, M.,
'Middle English: Dialects and Diversity', in The Oxford History of the English, ed. L. Mugglestone (Oxford, 2006), pp. 86-119
Fisiak, J., ed.,
Medieval Dialectology (Berlin and New York, 1995)
Kristensson, G.,
A Survey of Middle English Dialects, 4 vols. (Lund, 1967-2001)
Kristensson, G.,
'The Dialects of Middle English', in Language History and Linguistic Modelling, ed. R. Hickey and S. Puppel (Berlin and New York, 1997), pp. 655-64
Laing, M., et al. ed.,
Middle English Dialectology: Essays on Some Principles and Problems (Aberdeen, 1989)
McIntosh, A., M. L. Samuels, M. Benskin, M. Laing and K. Williamson,
A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English, 4 vols. (Aberdeen, 1986)
Milroy, J.,
'Middle English Dialectology', in The Cambridge History of the English Language II: 1066 to 1476, ed. N. Blake (Cambridge, 1992), pp. 156-206
Smith, J. J.,
'Varieties of Middle English', in A Companion to the History of the English Language, ed. H. Momma and M. Matto (Oxford, 2008), pp. 198-206
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9. Northern
Morris, R., ed.,
Cursor Mundi, 5 vols., EETS os 57, 59, 62, 66 an 68 (London, 1874-8)
Thompson, J. J.,
The Cursor Mundi: Poems, Texts and Concepts, Medium Aevum Monographs ns 19 (Oxford, 1998)
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10. East Midland
Hall, J., ed.,
Selections from Early Middle English 1130-1250, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1920) [Bestiary]
Hallbeck, E. S.,
The Language of the Middle English Bestiary (Lund, 1905)
Morris, R., ed.,
An Old English Miscellany, EETS os 49 (London, 1881) [Bestiary]
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11. West Midland
Millett, B., ed.,
Hali Meidhad, EETS os 284 (Oxford, 1982)
Millett, B., et al., ed.,
Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group, Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature 2 (Cambridge, 1996)
Tolkien, J. R. R.,
'Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad', Essays and Studies 14 (1929), 104-26
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12. South Western
Grattan, J. H. G., and G. F. H. Sykes, ed.,
The Owl and the Nightingale, EETS es 119 (London, 1935)
Sundby, B., The Dialect and Provenance of the Middle English Poem 'The Owl and the Nightingale': A Linguistic Study, Lund Studies in English 18 (Lund, 1950)
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13. South Eastern
Magnusson, U.,
Don Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt, rev. P. Gradon, EETS 23 (London, 1866)
Morris, R., ed.,
Studies in the Phonology of the Ayenbite of Inwyt, Lund Theses in English 1 (Lund, 1971)
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14. London
Benskin, M., 'Chancery Standard', in New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics vol. II: Lexis and Transmission, ed. C. J. Kay, C. Hough and I. Wotherspoon, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 252 (Amsterdam, 2004), pp. 1-40
Benson, L. D., ed.,
The Riverside Chaucer (Basingstoke, 1989)
Burnley, D.,
The Language of Chaucer, 3rd ed. (Oxford, 1987)
Fisher, J. H., M. Richardson and J. L. Fisher, ed.,
An Anthology of Chancery English (Knoxville, TN, 1984)
Horobin, S.,
The Language of the Chaucer Tradition (Cambridge, 2003)
Wright, L.,
Sources of London English: Medieval Thames Vocabulary (Oxford, 1996)
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15. Middle Scots
Görlach, M.,
A Textual History of Scots (Heidelberg, 2002)
Jones, C., ed.,
The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language (Edinburgh, 1997)
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