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Medieval Vernacular Literature: Secondary Sources

Library and Internet resources about medieval literature in European vernacular languages.

Overview

This page includes secondary sources for vernacular literature other than Anglo-Saxon, Chaucer, Drama, and Sacred Texts

Bibliographies
Encyclopedias and Surveys
Publisher Series
Romance in England
Secondary Sources

Bibliographies

Middle English Romance : an annotated bibliography, 1955-1985 by Joanne A. Rice
Call Number: PR321 .R49 1987
An annotated critical bibliography of Langland by Derek Pearsall
Call Number: PR2015 .P4 1990
The Gawain-Poet: an annotated bibliography, 1839-1977 by Malcolm Andrew
Call Number: PR1972.G35 A53 1979
The Arthurian Annals: the tradition in English from 1250 to 2000 by Daniel P. Nastali; Phillip C. Boardman
Call Number: DA152.5.A7 N3 2004
Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts, their Producers and their Readers by Ralph Hanna III
ISBN: 9780859898713
Publication Date: 2013
Bibliographical bulletin of the International Arthurian Society. by International Arthurian Society.
Call Number: Z8045 .I5
Ten Mid-Arthurian Romances: a reference guide by Jean E. Jost
Call Number: PR328 .J67 1986
Arthurian Legend and Literature: an annotated bibliography by Edmund Reiss; Louise H. Reiss; Beverly Taylor
Call Number: PN685 .R45 1984
Catalogue of romances in the Department of manuscripts in the British museum.
Call Number: Z6621.B87 R7
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref

Romance in England

The Arthur of the English : the Arthurian legend in medieval English life and literature by W. R. J. Barron (Editor)
Call Number: PR328 .A785 2001
The dwarfs of Arthurian romance and Celtic tradition. by Vernon Harward
Call Number: PN685 .H3
The English Romance in Time by Helen Cooper
Call Number: PR321 .C66 2004
Christianity and Romance in Medieval England by Rosalind Field (Editor); Phillipa Hardman (Editor); Michelle Sweeney (Editor)
Call Number: PR321 .C47 2010
Sir Gawain and the Classical Tradition by E. L. Risden (Editor)
Call Number: PR2065.G31 S567 2006
Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance by Robert Allen Rouse
Call Number: PR327 .R68 2005
Malory's 'Morte D'Arthur' by Catherine Batt
ISBN: 9780312229986
Publication Date: 2002
Remaking Arthurian Tradition

Secondary Sources

A Companion to Gower by Siân Echard (Editor)
Call Number: PR1987 .C66 2004
ISBN: 1843840006
A Companion to the Gawain-Poet by Derek S. Brewer (Editor); Jonathan Gibson (Editor)
Call Number: PR1972.G353 C66 1997
A Guide to Piers Plowman by Anna Baldwin
Call Number: PR2015 .B35 2007
Bodies and Disciplines : intersections of literature and history in fifteenth-century England by Barbara A. Hanawalt; David Wallace (Editor)
Call Number: DA245 .B64 1996
Chaucer and Langland: the antagonistic tradition by John M. Bowers
Call Number: PR255 .B69 2007
Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe by Richard W. Kaeuper
Call Number: CR4513 .K34 1999
Counsel and Strategy in Middle English Romance by Geraldine Barnes
Call Number: PR321 .B36 1993
Dunbar the Makar by Priscilla Bawcutt
Call Number: PR2269 .B37 1992
Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse by Karen Elaine Smyth
Jerusalem in medieval narrative by Suzanne M. Yeager
Call Number: DS109 .Y37 2008
Language and Culture in Medieval Britain by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Editor)
Call Number: PE525 .L36 2009
Medieval dream-poetry by A. C. Spearing
Call Number: PR317.D7 S6
Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry by A. C. Spearing
Call Number: PR411 .S66 1985
Robert Henryson by Douglas Gray
Call Number: PR1990.H4 Z66
Scribes and the City: London Guildhall Clerks and the Dissemination of Middle English Literature, 1375-1425 by Linne R. Mooney; Estelle Stubbs
ISBN: 9781903153406
Signes and Sothe: language in the Piers Plowman tradition by Helen Barr
Call Number: PR365 .B37 1994
The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, language, and nation in the Hundred Years War by Ardis Butterfield
Call Number: PR275.N29 B88 2009

Publisher Series

Encyclopedias and Surveys

A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture C. 1350-C. 1500 by Peter Brown (Editor)
Call Number: PR255 .C653 2007
A Companion to Medieval Poetry by Corinne Saunders (Editor)
Call Number: PR313 .C65 2010
A Companion to Old and Middle English Literature by Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin (Editors)
Electronic Resource
A concordance to five Middle English poems: Cleanness, St. Erkenwald, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience [and] Pearl by Barnet Kottler and Alan M. Markman
Call Number: PR265 .K6
A New Index of Middle English Verse by Julia Boffey (Editor); A. S. G. Edwards (Editor)
Call Number: Z2014.P7 B655 2005
An index of names in Pearl, Purity, Patience, and Gawain.
Call Number: PR1203 .C63
ISBN: CoolidgeChapman
Dictionary of writers of the thirteenth century England by Josiah Russell
Call Number: PR255 .R8 1971
Middle English compendium[electronic resource]
Middle Scots Poets : a reference guide to James I of Scotland, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas by Walter Scheps; J. Anna Looney
Call Number: PR8538 .S33 1986
Piers Plowman, a reference guide by Vincent DiMarco
Call Number: PR2015 .D5 1982
Piers Plowman: a guide to the quotations by John A. Alford (Editor)
Call Number: PR2017.Q67 A44 1992
The Arthurian Name Dictionary by Christopher W. Bruce (Editor)
Call Number: DA152.5.A7 B78 1999
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature, 1100-1500 by Larry Scanlon (Editor)
Call Number: 820.9001 SCA
Located in Madrid Gen. Collect.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance by Roberta L. Krueger (Editor)
Call Number: PN671 .C36 2000
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing by Carolyn Dinshaw (Editor); David Wallace (Editor)
Call Number: PN682.W6 C36 2003
The Cambridge history of medieval English literature by David Wallace (Editor)
Call Number: PR255 .C35 1999
The New Arthurian Encyclopedia by Norris J. Lacy (Editor); Geoffrey Ashe (Editor); Sandra N. Ihle (Editor); Marianne E. Kalinke (Editor); Raymond H. Thompson (Editor)
Call Number: DA152.5.A7 N48 1996
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English by Elaine Treharne; Greg Walker (Editor)
Call Number: PR255 .O95 2010
ISBN: 9780199229123
Publication Date: 2010-06-06