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Epic

Updated July 4th, 2008

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Editions

Ludovico Ariosto
Orlando Furioso. Gioacchino Paparelli, ed., I Classici della BUR (pb) £9.00

John Barbour
The Bruce (selections, Saltire Classics edn.) A. M. Kinghorn, ed. (pb) £5.00

Beowulf

[Buile Suibhne]: Seamus Heaney. Sweeney Astray. (pb) £4.50

Chanson de Roland

Graf Rudolf. Peter F. Ganz, ed. (pb) £8.50

Hartmann von Aue/Hartman von Ouwe

Alan Hindley & Brian J. Levy, eds.
The Old French Epic, An Introduction: Texts - Commentaries - Notes. (pb)
£8.50

R. C. Johnston and J. A. Noonan, eds. 
Passages for Translation from Old French, Selected from 12th-Century Writers; 2nd edn. (pb) £6.00

K. C. King, ed. 
Das Lied vom hürnen Seyfrid. (hb) £25.00 

Das Nibelungenlied 2, Teil [stanzas 1143-2379 of text]. Helmut Brackert, ed. £3.50

Poema de Mío Cid


Translations


Ludovico Ariosto
Orlando Furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando): A Romantic Epic. Barbara Reynolds, trans. (pb, Penguin Classics) £14.00
Orlando Furioso. Guido Waldman, trans. (pb, Oxford World's Classics). £4.50

John Barbour
Tom Scott. Tales of King Robert the Bruce, freely adapted from The Brus of John Barbour (14th century). (pb) £4.00

Wayland-Dietrich: [Katherine M. Buck]
London in the Fourth Century at the Coronation of Maxen Wledig (Magnus Maximus) A.D. 383, as described in The Song of Wayland. (hb) £20.00
The Wayland-Dietrich Saga, Part I. The Song of Wayland Smith. (Nos. 1-3; pb) £12.00

Hartmann von Aue/Hartman von Ouwe
Erec. Michael Resler, trans. (pb) £6.50

Wilhelm Ruland
Legends of the Rhine. (hb)
£3.00



Secondary works

William Calin
A Muse for Heroes: Nine Centuries of the Epic in France. (hb) £10.00

Jo Ann Cavallo
Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato: An Ethics of Desire. (hb) £14.00 

W. P. Ker
Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature, 2nd edn. (hb) £3.50 

Brian Murdoch
The Germanic Hero: Politics and Pragmatism in Early Medieval Poetry. (hb) £10.00 

John J. O'Connor
Amadis de Gaule and its Influence on Elizabethan Literature. (hb) £5.50 

Brian Powell and Geoffrey West, eds.
Al que en buen hora naçio: Essays on the Spanish Epic and Ballad in Honour of Colin Smith. (pb) £8.50

Jean Rychner
La Chanson de Geste: essai sur l'art épique des jongleurs. (pb) £4.50



Books & journals containing relevant essays

Francis G. Gentry, ed. 
A Companion to Middle High German Literature to the 14th Century. (hb) £100.00

Earl Jeffrey Richards, ed., with Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno.
Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan. (hb) £8.00 

L. M. Paterson and S. B. Gaunt, eds. 
The Troubadours and the Epic: Essays in Memory of W. Mary Hackett. (pb) £4.50

R. M. Wilson
The Lost Literature of Medieval England; 2nd edn. (pb) £12.00



 


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