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Updated April 30th, 2008

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Editions & translations

Adam of Cobsam
The Wright's Chaste Wife. Frederick J. Furnivall, ed. (pb) £7.00

The Akathistos Hymn ...  on the Occasion of the Deliverance of Constantinople from the Barbarians, A.D. 626. Vincent McNabb, trans. (hb) £45.00 

Amys and Amylion. Françoise Le Saux, ed. (pb) £7.50 

Ludovico Ariosto

Aucassin et Nicolette

Ausias March
Selected Poems. Arthur Terry, ed. & trans. (pb) £12.00

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

Beowulf

Gonzalo de Berceo
Milagros de Nuestra Señora, novena edición. Michael Gerli, ed. (pb) £5.00 

Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy. V. E. Watts, trans. (hb, Folio Society) £12.00

Le Bone Florence of Rome. Carol Falvo Heffernan, ed. (hb) £8.00

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

E. K. Chambers & F. Sidgwick, eds.
Early English Lyrics Amorous, Divine, Moral & Trivial. (hb)
£4.50

Geoffrey Chaucer

Chrétien de Troyes

Columbus in Italy: An Italian Versification of the Letter on the Discovery of the New World. Martin Davies, trans. (pb) £7.00

Dante Alighieri

William Dunbar

John Fox.
The Poetry of Fifteenth-Century France, II: Versification and Texts. (pb)
£4.50

Francis of Assisi
Canticle of the Sun; with calligraphy by Frank Missant. (pb) £4.50

Gottfried von Strassburg

John Gower

Douglas Gray, ed. 
The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose. (hb) £8.50

Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence/Garnier of Pont-Sainte-Maxence
La vie de Saint Thomas Becket. Emmanuel Walberg, ed. (CFMA; pb) £12.00
Garnier's Becket, translated from the 12th-century Vie Saint Thomas le Martyr de Cantorbire. Janet Shirley, trans. (hb) £10.00
Garnier's Becket, translated from the 12th-century Vie Saint Thomas le Martyr de Cantorbire. Janet Shirley, trans. (pb) £8.00

Guy of Warwick

Hartmann von Aue/Hartman von Ouwe

Robert Henryson

Hildeberti Cenomanensis Episcopi 
Vita beate Marie Egiptiace. (hb) £70.00

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

Graham Holderness.
Craeft: Poems from the Anglo-Saxon. (pb)
£4.00

Johannes de Hauvilla
Architrenius. Winthrop Wetherbee, ed. & trans. (hb) £32.00

Dafydd Johnston, ed. & trans. 
Canu Maswedd yr Oesoedd Canol/Medieval Welsh Erotic Poetry. (pb)
£20.00

R. C. Johnston & D. D. R. Owen, eds.
Two Old French Gauvain Romances: Part I, Le Chevalier à l'épée and La mule sans frein; Part II, Parallel Readings with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (hb)
£20.00

Franciscus Junius
Cædmonis Monachi Paraphrasis Poetica Genesios ac Præcipuarum Sacræ Paginæ Historiarum, abhinc annos M.LXX. Anglo-Saxonicè conscripta, & nunc primum edita; ed. Peter J. Lucas. (pb) £14.00

T. J. Knab, ed.
A Scattering of Jades: Stories, Poems, and Prayers of the Aztecs. (pb) £3.50

Louise Labé
Oeuvres Complètes: Sonnets - Élégies - Débat de Folie et d'Amour; ed. François Rigolot. (pb) £3.00

William Langland

Layamon
Wace and Layamon: Arthurian Chronicles.
Eugene Mason, trans.; Gwyn Jones, intro. (pb) £3.50

Li Ho
The Poems of Li Ho, 791-817. J. D. Frodsham, trans. (hb) £45.00

Ian MacDonald, ed.
Saint Bride. (hb)
£4.50 

Guillaume de Machaut
The Tale of the Alerion. Minnette Gaudet & Constance B. Hieatt, trans. (hb) £16.00

Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici 
Sacred Narratives; ed. & trans. Jane Tylus. (pb) £5.50 

Michelangelo

Morte Arthure

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

Elisabeth Nissen, ed. 
Les Chansons attribuées a Guiot de Dijon et Jocelin. (hb) £12.00

Cesare de Nostredame
Les perles, ou Les larmes de la Saincte Magdalene. Robert T. Corum Jr, ed. (pb) £12.00

Michel Nostradamus
Texte original et complet de prophéties de Michel Nostradamus de 1600 à l'an 2000. M. P. Edouard, ed. (pb)  £6.00

Patience. J. J. Anderson, ed. (hb) £4.00

Pearl

Petrarch / Francesco Petrarca

Poema de Mío Cid

Julio Rodríguez Puértolas, ed.
Poesía Crítica y Satírica del Siglo XV. (pb)
£4.50

Sally Purcell, ed.
Monarchs and the Muse: Poems by the Kings and Queens of England. (hb) £6.00

Burton Raffel, trans. & ed.; Alexandra H. Olsen, ed.
Poems and Prose from the Old English. (pb)
£6.50

Roman de la rose

Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Dante and his Circle: with the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100-1200-1300): A Collection of Lyrics, edited, and translated in the original metres. (hb)
£6.00

[Rutebeuf]:
Onze poèmes de Rutebeuf concernant la Croisade; eds. Julia Bastin and Edmond Faral. (hb) £10.00

David Scott
An Anglo-Saxon Passion. (hb)
£5.00

The Seafarer, ed. Ida L. Gordon. (pb) £4.50

Norman R. Shapiro, trans.
The Comedy of Eros: Medieval French Guides to the Art of Love, 2nd edn. (pb)
£5.00

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sir Orfeo

Brian Stone, trans.
Medieval English Verse.
(Penguin Classics; pb) £2.50
The Owl and the Nightingale/Cleanness/St. Erkenwald. (pb)
£2.50

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 
Surrey: Poems; ed. Emrys Jones. (pb) £14.50

C. A. Trypanis.
Medieval and Modern Greek Poetry: An Anthology. (hb)
£20.00

François Villon

Wace
Wace and Layamon: Arthurian Chronicles.
Eugene Mason, trans.; Gwyn Jones, intro. (pb) £3.50

Walther von der Vogelweide
Gedichte: Mittelhochdeutscher Text und Übertragung. Peter Wapnewski, ed. (pb) £3.50 

The Wanderer; R. F. Leslie, ed. (hb) £7.50 

Max Wehrli, ed.
Minnesang vom Kürenberger bis Wolfram. (pb)
£4.00

Bob Willoughby, trans. 
Voices from Ancient Ireland: A Book of Early Irish Poetry. (pb) £3.50 




Secondary works


Michael Alexander
Old English Literature. (hb) £9.50 

Fabian Alfie
Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angioleri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society. (pb) £6.50

Paul M. Allen & Joan deRis Allen
Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Creatures: A Modern Spiritual Path. (hb) £6.50 

John Atkins
Sex in Literature, vol. 3: The Medieval Experience. (pb) £7.50 

N. F. Blake
The English Language in Medieval Literature. (pb) £6.00

Sir Maurice Bowra
Mediaeval Love-song. (pb) £8.50

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

Michael D. Cherniss
Boethian Apocalypse: Studies in Middle English Vision Poetry. (hb) £8.00 

Anne Elizabeth Cobby
Ambivalent Conventions: Formula and Parody in Old French. (pb) £14.00

D. Empaytaz de Croome
Albor: Mediaeval and Renaissance Dawn-Songs in the Iberian Peninsula. (pb) £14.00 

Sheila Delany
Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England. (pb) £8.50 


Daniel Donoghue
Style in Old English Poetry: The Test of the Auxiliary. (hb) £13.50  

Steve Ellis
Chaucer at Large: The Poet in the Modern Imagination. (hb) £10.00 

John Fox
The Lyric Poetry of Charles d'Orléans. (hb) £16.00

Shems Friedlander 
Rumi, The Hidden Treasure. (pb) £4.50 

John Block Friedman. 
Orpheus in the Middle Ages. (hb) £16.00 

Douglas Gray
Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric. (hb) £14.00  

Stanley B. Greenfield
The Interpretation of Old English Poems. (hb) £10.00 

Elaine Tuttle Hansen
The Solomon Complex: Reading Wisdom in Old English Poetry. (hb) £10.00 

Graham Holderness
Anglo-Saxon Verse. (pb) £5.00 

Rosemary Huisman
The Written Poem: Semiotic Conventions from Old to Modern English. (hb) £9.50

B. R. Hutcheson
Old English Poetic Metre. (hb) £35.00 

Norman Iles
Who Really Killed Cock Robin? Nursery Rhymes and Carols Restored to their Original Meanings. (hb) £8.50 

R. C. Johnston
The Versification of Jordan Fantosme. (pb) £8.50

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

Anne L. Klinck & Ann Marie Rasmussen, eds.
Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches. (hb) £18.50

Sarah Larratt Keefer & Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, eds.
New Approaches to Editing Old English Verse. (hb) £12.00 

Vernon Lee
Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediæval in the Renaissance. (hb) £9.50

Alexandre Leupin
Fiction and Incarnation: Rhetoric, Theology, and Literature in the Middle Ages. (pb) £9.50  

George MacLennan 
Lucid Interval: Subjective Writing and Madness in History. (pb) £7.50    

Enid McLeod
Charles of Orleans: Prince and Poet. (hb) £6.00 

Jacqueline T. Miller
Poetic License: Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Renaissance Contexts. (hb) £8.00 

A. J. Minnis, ed. 
Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall. (hb) £25.00

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

Stephen Murphy
The Gift of Immortality: Myths of Power and Humanist Poetics. (hb) £15.00 

Charles Muscatine
Poetry and Crisis in the Age of Chaucer. (hb) £9.50

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

Gerard O'Daly
The Poetry of Boethius. (hb) £9.50

Deborah Parker
Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet. (hb) £25.00 

Fred C. Robinson
Beowulf and the Appositive Style. (pb) £7.50 

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

V. J. Scattergood
Politics and Poetry in the Fifteenth Century. (hb) £12.50

James G. Southworth
The Prosody of Chaucer and his Followers: Supplementary Chapters to Verses of Cadence. (pb) £5.00 

A. C. Spearing
Criticism and Medieval Poetry. (pb; signed comp. slip) £7.00
Criticism and Medieval Poetry, 2nd edn. (pb) £4.00 

Sarah Spence
Rhetorics of Reason and Desire: Vergil, Augustine, and the Troubadours. (hb) £10.00

Michael Swanton
English Poetry before Chaucer. (pb) £8.00

Theresa Tinkle 
Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, & English Poetry. (hb) £17.00 

Rosemond Tuve 
Seasons and Months: Studies in a Tradition of Middle English Poetry. (hb) £8.50  

Eugene Vance
From Topic to Tale: Logic and Narrativity in the Middle Ages. (pb) £4.00 

Eugene Vance
Mervelous Signals: Poetics and Sign Theory in the Middle Ages. (pb) £8.50 

Helen Waddell
Poetry in the Dark Ages: The eighth W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow 28th October, 1947. (hb) £6.50

Arthur D. Waley
The Poetry and Career of Li Po: 701-762 A.D. (hb) £25.00 224g.

L. P. Wilkinson
Ovid Surveyed, an abridgement for the general reader of "Ovid Recalled". (pb) £12.00

James I. Wimsatt
Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch" in University of Pennsylvania MS French 15. (hb) £20.00 

Roger Wright
Spanish Ballads. (pb) £8.50  

Michael Zink
The Enchantment of the Middle Ages. (hb) £14.50


Books & journals containing related material

Barbara K. Altmann and Carleton W. Carroll, eds. 
The Court Reconvenes: Courtly Literature across the Disciplines. (hb) £8.50

Marie Axton and James P. Carley, eds. 
"Triumphs of English": Henry Parker, Lord Morley, Translator to the Court: New Essays in Interpretation. (hb) £8.00

Piero Boitani & Anna Torti, eds.
Medieval and Pseudo-Medieval Literature: The J. A. W. Bennett Memorial Lectures, Perugia, 1982-1983. (hb) £18.00

J. A. Burrow, ed.
Middle English Literature: British Academy Gollancz Lectures. (pb) £19.50

Eric Cochrane, ed. 
The Late Italian Renaissance, 1525-1630. (hb) £15.00

Sheila Delany
Medieval Literary Politics: Shapes of ideology. (pb) £8.00  

N. Denholm-Young
Collected Papers: Cultural, Textual and Bibliographical Essays on Medieval Topics. (hb) £16.00 

Louise Fradenburg & Carla Freccero, eds.
Premodern Sexualities. (pb) £9.50

A. O. H. Jarman & Gwilym Rees Hughes, eds.
A Guide to Welsh Literature, vol. 2. (hb) £18.00 

Theresa M. Krier
Birth Passages: Maternity and Nostalgia, Antiquity to Shakespeare. (hb) £16.00 

Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, ed.
Reading Old English Texts. (pb) £9.50

Derek Pearsall, ed.
Manuscripts and Texts: Editorial Problems in Later Middle English Literature. (hb) £18.00

Michael Roberts and Simone Clarke, eds. 
Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales. (pb) £6.00

Beryl Rowland, ed.
Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins. (hb) £14.00

Sylvia Tomasch & Sealy Gilles, eds.
Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages. (hb) £14.00

D. A. Trotter, ed.
Littera et Sensus: Essays on Form and Meaning in Medieval French Literature, presented to John Fox. (hb) £7.50 

Edward Vasta, ed.
Middle English Survey: Critical Essays. (pb) £4.00 

A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller, eds.
The Cambridge History of English Literature: Volume II, The End of the Middle Ages. (hb) £3.50  

Julian N. Wasserman & Lois Roney, eds.
Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature. (pb) £8.00

Journals

Anglo-Saxon England

Cahiers Elisabethains: Etudes sur la Pre-renaissance et la Renaissance Anglaises

Essays and Studies

Leeds Studies in English

Medievalia et Humanistica

The Medieval Translator

Medium Aevum

Neophilologus

New Medieval Literatures

Speculum

 
 


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