MA in English - Texts & Contexts:

Medieval to Renaissance

2013-2014

Kilcolman Castle, Doneraile, Co. Cork

Course Handbook
 MA Texts and Contexts: Medieval to Renaissance
Course Syllabus

Welcome to the Medieval and Renaissance MA!

This MA is designed to introduce students to writing in English from these islands in the
period circa 700 to 1700, as well as to the cultural relationships between English writing
and related European literatures, including classical, insular, and Old Norse-Icelandic
traditions.

In addition to a research dissertation and two courses in research methods and

preparation, students take three core modules and one elective module in Medieval and
Renaissance English, allowing enhanced specialisation in medieval writing (Old and
Middle English, with Renaissance English) or later medieval and Renaissance English
(from c. 1200-1700). Both pathways are designed to provide students with a greater
awareness of the conceptual and critical issues involved in the study of earlier writing,
some of the historical and cultural contexts that the study of this period involves, and also
some sense of how early writing has been re-appropriated in modern texts and media,
from the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, to Shakespeare on film.

The UCC School of Englishs Medieval and Renaissance MA is unique in Ireland for
offering students the earliest English writing (Anglo-Saxon or Old English) in addition to
later medieval and Renaissance English. The programme emphasises the continuities
between medieval and Renaissance writing, investigates the beginnings of Anglo-Irish
writing, and engages closely with an English Renaissance poet who lived and worked in
Cork in the 16th century, and produced his most significant work there: Edmund Spenser.
The course also lays the foundation of study at higher degree level. It introduces the
subject-specific skills that are required (use of databases, bibliographies, palaeography,
codicology, analysis of the physical composition of printed texts), as well as developing
generic skills (writing, referencing, presentation skills) that will be useful as you embark
on a scholarly project or career.

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 COURSE STRUCTURE

The MA is 90-credit course, and consists of three elements:

Element 1: Core course in Medieval and Renaissance English (40 credits)
In this element, students take four 10-credit courses in medieval and renaissance English,
from the five offered (A-E), as follows:

In TP1, students take two ten-credit courses, as follows:

EN 6052: New Histories of the Book: theories and practices of earlier writing (Course
A), PLUS
EN 6053: Old English Literature, to c. 1200 (Course B) OR
EN 6052: New Histories of the Book (Course A) AND EN 6055: Texts and
Transformations: Medieval to Renaissance (Course E)

In TP2 students take

EN 6051: Middle English Literature, 1200-1550 (Course C) AND
EN 6054: Renaissance Literature, c. 1500-1700 (Course D)

With the agreement of the MA programmes and head of School, one 10-credit module
may be substituted from other English MA programmes.

Element 2: EN 6009 Literary Research: Skills, Methods and Strategies (10 credits)
Period of Study: October to mid-February
Hours of Study: 12 x 1 hours seminars
Students will compile a research journal in ePortfolio format and undertake other self-
directed research tasks, culminating in an oral presentation of the proposed dissertation
topic. Please note a separate timetable will be issued for this course.

Element 3: EN 6017 Dissertation (40 credits)

Period of Research and Supervision: March to September
Length of dissertation: 15,000-17,000 words
Submission deadline: Friday, October 3, 2014 to the Exams / Records office, West Wing,
UCC

Mandatory courses are in white; options in grey

TP1: choose Course Course B Course E EN 6009
A and B OR A (New (Old (Texts and (Contemporary Research
A and E (in Histories English) Transformations: Methods)
addition to of the Medieval to
EN 6009) Book) Renaissance)

TP2 Course C Course D (Renaissance

(Middle English)
English)
Summer: Dissertation of 15,000-17, 000 words
April-
September

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Modules A-E will each comprise 10 X 2 hour classes and will be assessed by one 3,000
essay each. Attendance, preparation and contribution is worth 20 % of each module.
One hardcopy of each essay is to be submitted to the School of English, main office, by
4.00 p.m. on the due date, accompanied by a Turnitin receipt.

Course A: EN 6052: New Histories of the Book: theories and practices of earlier
writing
10 credits, Teaching period 1.
This module introduces students to how books were made and how texts were written and
circulated in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The class will gain experience of reading
from manuscripts and from early printed books using facsimiles and electronic resources,
and will explore the literary implications of reading medieval texts in their original
textual environment. The course will also explore earlier theories of writing, authorship,
and audience.
Teaching methods: 10 x 2 hours seminars plus directed study (associated reading and
consultation hours).
The essay assigned for this course is due Wednesday January 8. Titles will be issued in
the week of November 25.

Course B: EN 6053: Old English Literature, to c. 1200

10 credits, Teaching period 1.
(Please note students may take course E, described below, in lieu of this module).
This module focuses on reading Old English poetry and prose in its literary, material and
cultural context, placing canonical texts such as Beowulf and The Wanderer in dialogue
with less-studied works. We will consider issues such as authorship and authority,
manuscript compilation and genre, and the political and gendered inflection of the heroic,
always keeping in mind connections between the rich literature of Anglo-Saxon England
and later traditions.
Teaching methods: 10 x 2 hours seminars plus directed study (associated reading and
consultation hours).
The essay assigned for this course is due Friday January 10. Titles will be issued in the
week of November 25.

Course C: EN 6051: Middle English Literature, 1200-1550

10 credits, Teaching period 2.
This module examines a fascinating period of change linguistic, cultural, and literary -
in English writing in England, Scotland, and Ireland. The course explores the generic and
stylistic richness of the period, covering the development and diffusion of lyric poetry,
romance, visionary texts, satire, drama, and writing for women, with close attention to
how this writing engages with problems of society, power, identity, and belief in the later
Middle Ages.
Teaching methods: 10 x 2 hours seminars plus directed study (associated reading and
consultation hours).

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The essay assigned for this course is due Monday April 7. Titles will be issued in the
week of March 4.

Course D: EN 6054: Renaissance Literature from c. 1550

10 credits, Teaching period 2.
This module explores a range of texts in different forms - epic, satire, drama, romance
and others - as well as stimulating cultural contexts. The ability of the periods writers to
reinvent and vivify older textual traditions is a central, though not exclusive, interest.
Overall, the module reveals the extraordinary richness of the cultural production of the
early modern period in both England and Ireland.
Teaching methods: 10 x 2 hours seminars plus directed study (associated reading and
consultation hours).
The essay assigned for this course is due Wednesday April 7. Titles will be issued in the
week of March 4.

Course E: EN 6055: Texts and Transformations: Medieval to Renaissance

10 credits, Teaching period 1.
(Please note students may take module B, described above, in lieu of this module).
This module will interrogate the traditional division between the Middle Ages and
Renaissance, by examining the development of a literary, textual, and generic tradition
over the two periods. Case studies will vary from year to year, and may include topics
such as: the post-reformation reception of the Piers Plowman tradition; the appropriation
of medieval chronicle writing and romance in Renaissance drama; and classical traditions
in English writing from the Middle Ages to Renaissance.
Teaching methods: 10 x 2 hours seminars plus directed study (associated reading and
consultation hours).
The essay assigned for this course is due Friday January 10. Titles will be issued in the
week of November 25.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the course coordinator, Dr
Andrew King (a.king@ucc.ie)

WHERE NEXT?

We are available to give general advice on postgraduate issues, and also to

discuss any plans for doctoral study. Please see individual staff during office
hours, or e-mail to make an appointment.

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 Seminar Schedule
TP 1

Course A (Book History) - Thursday 2-4pm, Perrott Avenue 3 Seminar room

Course B (Old English) Tuesday, 2-4, Aras na Laoi G32
Course E (Transformations) - Wednesday, 1-3 pm, ORB 165

TP 2

Course C (Middle English) Wednesday, 4-6 pm, ORB 165

Course D (Renaissance English) Thursday 2-4pm, Perrott Avenue 3 Seminar
room

(Occasionally the time or venue of a seminar will be different in a particular week. Those
changes are marked in the syllabus below, so please keep a careful eye on this!)

The seminars for the taught course in Texts and Contexts consist of two two-hour
sessions per week. Each meeting will concentrate both on close reading of primary texts
and on the contextual element of the course, considering authors and texts along with
key secondary criticism concerning matters of genre, history, politics, culture, and art.
We will examine some of the major literary influences on medieval and Renaissance
texts, and take account of medieval and Renaissance theories of authorship and
translation, as well as modern theoretical approaches to pre-modern texts.

Worksheets outlining preparatory reading, issues for discussion, and topics for
presentation will be provided for these sessions a week in advance.

Key

TB Dr Thomas Birkett *
KG Dr Katie Garner
AK Dr Andrew King *
CL Dr Colin Lahive
KM Dr Kirsty March
OM Dr Orla Murphy
KR Dr Kenneth Rooney *
ES Dr Edel Semple *

* Indicates a staff member available for thesis supervision

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 Course Team and Research Interests

Dr Thomas Birkett (lecturer): t.birkett@ucc.ie

Old English; Old Norse; runology; palaeography; theories of writing and textuality;
riddles; antiquarianism and the post-medieval reception of Old English and Old Norse
literature and culture.

Dr Katie Garner (IRC postdoctoral fellow)

Medieval and Arthurian romance. The romantic reception of Arthurian romance.

Dr Andrew King (lecturer): a.king@ucc.ie ORB 172 (COURSE CO-ORDINATOR)

Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, romance, medieval and early modern drama; the early
modern response to medieval texts and culture; memory and the sense of place.

Dr Colin Lahive
Milton; Seventeenth-century literature and political culture; Seventeenth-century
romance, and early modern receptions and uses of medieval romance; Caroline court
culture; Reading and epistolary networks, discourse communities, and print in early
modern Ireland.

Dr Kirsty March k.march@ucc.ie

The transmission and dissemination of texts from the eighth and early ninth century;
Anglo-Saxon prayer books; affective piety in Old and early Middle English texts.

Dr Orla Murphy (lecturer): o.murphy@ucc.ie ORB ORB 1.42

Anglo-Saxon Literature; epigraphy, paleography, codicology; knowledge design;
medieval imaginations: writing, art, sculpture, their contexts, their digital conservation,
preservation, and transmission.

Dr Kenneth Rooney (lecturer): k.rooney@ucc.ie ORB 171

Death and eschatology in later medieval writing; Chaucer; the Gawain-poet; Middle
English romance and hagiography; visionary literature; secular and devotional lyric
poetry to the renaissance; the interaction of writing and iconography in earlier literature

Dr Edel Semple (lecturer): (e.semple@ucc.ie) ORB 184

Shakespeare, Middleton and Jonson; adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare;
gender, sexuality, and the body; the early modern city; transgression and criminality;
cheap print, in particular the work of John Taylor, the Water-poet.

SOURCES OF HELP

We are available to discuss any aspect of the course and to give general advice
on postgraduate issues. Please see individual staff during office hours, or e-mail
to make an appointment.

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 TERM 1
Week
Beginning
Course B: Course A: Book Course E:
Old English History Transformations
Tuesday 2-4 Thurs 2-4 Wed 1-3
16 SEPT INTRODUCTORY MEETING: ORB 1.85, Tuesday, September 17th, 2-3pm
23 SEPT
Towards the Vernacular Elements of the Book 1: Epic, Romance, and romance:
I Cdmons Hymn; materials, layout, binding, Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde,
oral poetry; Anglo-Saxon workshop on folding, quires, Books 1 & 2
runic inscriptions book production Boece
[TB] [TB] The European Troy and Troilus
traditions

[AK]
30 SEPT
Early authors Elements of the Book 2: Epics of Fate:
II Cynewulfs signatures; Scripts: bookhands and Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde,
Alfred the Greats cursives, workshop on Book 3
Preface to Pastoral Care; interpretation and transcription [AK]
lfrics Prefaces [TB]
[TB]
7 OCT Space and Place Manuscripts and WED 4-6
Extracts from The OE Palaeography Epics of Fate:
III Bede; The Voyage of Making Books Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde,
Othere & Wulfstan in the Textual Transmission Books 4 & 5
OE Orosius Theories of textual editing [AK]
[TB] [OM]
14 OCT
Riddles and revelation Textuality and the digital Love and death:
IV Selected riddles, The OE edition: Robert Henryson, The
Rune Poem McGann: Marking Texts of Testament of Cresseid
[TB] ManyDimensions (2004). [KR]
[OM]

21 OCT The Manuscript Contexts of

Heroic Revisioning Texts: Heroism re-imagined:
The Battle of Maldon Havelok the Dane - romance, Shakespeare, Troilus and
V The Dream of the Rood history, or saints life? Cressida
The Wanderer The MS context: Bodleian [ES]
[TB] Library, MS Laud Misc. 108
[AK]
28 OCT READING WEEK
NOV 4 Devoted readers: Medieval history and the
Beowulf: Source and Renaissance stage
Analogue Medieval books of hours. The
VI The Finnsburh Fragment; Religious poems of Harley Shakespeare, Henry IV part 1,
The Sigurd Legend; 2253 Holinshed & Hall
extracts from Grettis [KR] [ES]
saga [TB]

NOV 11
VII Early Romance Printing the author: John Transforming Chaucer:
Apollonius of Tyre Taylor, the Water Poet, Spensers completion of The
[TB] Collected Works (1630) Squires Tale
[ES] [AK]

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NOV 18 The Word Exchange
The reception of Old Inventing (staging) the Mouldy-Tale Romance?:
VIII English poetry; author: Shakespeare and Wilkins,
translation theory; Theatrical contexts for Pericles, Prince of Tyre
legacies [TB] collaboration and play [ES]
authorship -
Jonsons First Folio and other
texts
[ES]

NOV 25 Writing for women in Texts and theories: Reformation and counter-
the Middle Ages. The The Medieval commentary reformations:
IX beginnings of Middle tradition. Medieval writers on Transforming authority
English scripture and the classics.
Ancrene Wisse and [KR [AK]
related texts
[KM]

Essays in courses A, B, & E assigned.

DEC 2 Oral Presentations of Manuscript/Book history topic

X

Week of December 9: STUDY/REVIEW WEEK

TERM 2

COURSE C (MIDDLE ENGLISH) COURSE D (RENAISSANCE ENGLISH)

Wed 4-6 Thurs 2-4
7 Jan No classes
14
Jan Women and Writing: Love Hurts Writing by Women (about Women):
I Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Love Lady Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam
(1374) [ES]
[KR]
21
Jan A Scandalous Woman: Female poets: To be a (wo)man in print:
II The Book of Margery Kempe (extracts) Behn and other writers
[KR] [ES]

28 The Loves of Lancelot: Medieval to Spenser: Defining this little world of man
Jan Romantic The Faerie Queene, Book II, Proem & cantos i-iii
III Malory, The Tale of Sir Lancelot and Queen [AK]
Guinevere in Le Morte Darthur, Louisa
Stuart Costello, The Funeral Boat (1829),
and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, A Legend of
Tintagel Castle (1832)
[KG]
4 Feb Politics, Satire, and History: Spenser: Temperance and the Humanist
IV Grave Concerns context
The Awntyrs of Arthure; FQ, II.iv-vi
Winnere and Wastour Sidney, Defence of Poetry
[KR] [AK]

11 Chaucerian satire: Spenser: Temperance and worldly riches

Feb The Friar and Summoner and their tales FQ, II.vii-ix
V from The Canterbury Tales More, Utopia
[KR]

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Week of 18 February: READING WEEK

25 The beginnings of Anglo-Irish writing - Spenser: Temperance and sexual appetite

Feb Satire and morality in the Kildare poems: FQ, II.x-xii
VI The Land of Cockayne , Piers of Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, Book IV
Bermingham and other texts [AK]
[KR]

4 Mar Moral topographies and medieval Ireland Anxiety and career development in Miltons
VII Middle English versions of St Patricks shorter poems:
Purgatory; and The Vision of Tundale Sonnet VII ('How soon hath time')
(extracts) 'Lycidas'
[KR] Sonnet XVI ('When I consider how my light is
spent')

[CL]
11 Wish-fulfilment and revelation:
March The Gawain-poet: Pearl The Secret Life of Rogues...Uncovered: Writings
VIII [KR] of Greene, Dekker, et al. including Lantern and
Candelight, A Notable Discovery of Cozenage
(1591)
[ES]
18
March A Dance to the Music of Time: Desire, disorder, and death: Middletons Women
Medieval Poetry and Music Beware Women (c.1621)
IX [KR] [ES]

Essays in courses C & D assigned.

Week of 25 March: Oral Presentations of ePortfolio Research Journal Material

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 Marking Scale and Assessment
Marking Scale

First Honours: 70+

Second Honours grade 1: 60-69
Second Honours grade 2: 50-50
Pass: 40-59

Submission of Written Work

All written work must be typed (word-processed), and presented double-spaced with
adequate margins for comment. All essays and dissertations must be provided with
references (footnotes, endnotes, or other referencing system) in accordance with the
MLA Handbook (see Research Skills Course), and a complete, and correctly formatted
bibliography.

Plagiarism

Plagiarised work will be treated under the rules of the Department of English, and UCCs
regulations. Plagiarism is likely to result in the mark of 0 and failure of the whole course.

Please be especially careful in using sources from the internet. If you are unsure about
what constitutes plagiarism, the rules for referencing, or which referencing system to
use, please consult us.

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Preliminary Reading
1. Palaeography and Language

Dennis Freeborn, From Old English to Standard English (Houndmills, 1992). Survey of
language change using textual evidence.
Malcolm Parkes, Pause and Effect: Punctuation in the West (Aldershot, 1992). Seminal,
illuminating study of punctuation and, by extension, the reading and interpretation of
manuscripts.
Jane Roberts, Guide to Scripts used in English Writings up to 1500 (London, 2005).
Indispensable survey, which also acts as a hands-on literary history of English writing.

2. Old English (c. 650-1200)

Primary Materials
Many of the poems and shorter prose works are reproduced in parallel OE and MnE in
Treharne, ed., Old and Middle English: An Anthology. 3rd ed. (Blackwell, 2010). Please
purchase this book.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The edition by Swanton (2000) includes all manuscript versions.
Extracts can be found in Treharnes anthology.
Beowulf. There are numerous editions, but Fulks The Beowulf Manuscript (Harvard, 2010)
has the advantage of including other texts in the MS, as well as the Finnsburh Fragment.
The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry, 2 vols, ed. Bernard J. Muir (Exeter, 1994) Most
poems included in Treharnes anthology.
The Old English Orosius, ed. Bately (EETS, 1980). Extracts in translation will be provided.
The Old English Bede. Millers EETS edition is still the standard edition of the OE text. The
full translation can be found at http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Bede_Miller.pdf
The Old English Rune Poem. A copy of this short poem will be provided in class, but
Halsalls edition (Toronto, 1982) includes an interesting discussion of the tradition.
The Saga of Grettir the Strong, trans. Bernard Scudder (London: Penguin, 2005)

Secondary Sources
Campbell, John and Wormald, eds. The Anglo-Saxons (Penguin, 1991)
Donoghue, Daniel, Old English Literature: A Short Introduction (Blackwell, 2004)
Frantzen, Allan J., Desire for Origins (Rutgers UP: 1990)
Fulk, R. D. and C. M. Cain, A History of Old English Literature (Blackwell, 2003)
Godden, Malcolm and Michael Lapidge, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Old English
Literature (CUP, 1991)
Hunter Blair, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England. 3rd ed. (CUP, 2003)
Lapidge, Blair, Keynes and Scragg, The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England
(Blackwell, 2000)
Liuzza, R.M., ed. Old English Literature: Critical Essays (Yale UP, 2002)
O'Brien O'Keefe, Katherine, ed. Reading Old English Texts (Cambridge: CUP, 1997)
and Visible Song: Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse (CUP, 1990)
Page, R. I. An Introduction to English Runes. 2nd ed. (London: Boydell Press, 2006)
Pulsiano, Phillip and Elaine Treharne, eds. A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature
(Blackwell, 2001)
Stanley, E.G., ed. Continuations and Beginnings: Studies in Old English Literature (Nelson,
1966)

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Language Aids
Baker, Introduction to Old English (Blackwell, 2003) with an online component and reader at
http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/OEA/
Mitchell and Robinson, A Guide to Old English. 7th ed. (Oxford, 2007)
Bosworth and Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Available online at
http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/BT/bosworth.htm

3. Middle English (c. 1200-1500)

Primary materials in English and other languages
- Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy - translations in Penguin, Loeb, or Oxford
World's Classics. Without doubt, the most influential book for the middle ages, written by
Boethius in prison, awaiting execution, in the 6th century. Indispensable for Chaucer (who
translated it).
- Chretien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances - translation in Everyman series. Seminal 12th-
century development of Arthurian world and romance form.
- Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, The Romance of the Rose. Seminal 12th-century
work for developing ideas of love-psychology and allegorical form. Theres a handy
translation by Frances Horgan for Worlds Classics.
Dante, The Divine Comedy. The summation of medieval ideas of this life and the next. Any
translation, but Sinclairs parallel Italian English text (OUP) most useful
Boccaccio, The Decameron. A 14th-century story-collection, arguably important for
Chaucer. Any translation.
The Lais of Marie de France, ed. & Trans G. Burgess. Penguin. Influential medieval tales of
enchantment.
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose. Wonderful recreation, in a monastic whodunit, of the
patterns of thought of medieval philosophy and religion.

Secondary Sources
Guides to Middle English writing
David Wallace, ed. The Cambridge History of Medieval Literature (CUP, 1999).
Brown, ed. A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture (Blackwell, 2006)
Scanlon, Larry, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature (CUP, 2009)
All three collections have useful essays on historical contexts, language, genres, texts and
authors.

Other criticism / history

Elizabeth Archibald and A.S.G. Edwards, eds, A Companion to Malory (Cambridge: D.S.
Brewer, 1996)
J. A. W. Bennett, Middle English Literature (Oxford, 1983)
R. Bartlett, The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350
(Harmondsworth, 1993)
Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars. Yale, 1992. Essential on the character of medieval
religion and its implications for art, writing and imagination.
D. MacCulloch. Reformation: Europes House Divided (Allen Lane, 2004). Can be read as a
cultural history of Europe in the late Middle ages as well as an account of the transition to
Renaissance. See chapters The Old Church and part III Patterns of Life.

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Helen Cooper, The Structure of the Canterbury Tales (London, 1983), pp. 91-120
C. Dinshaw, Chaucers Sexual Poetics (Madison, 1989)
S. Knight, Chaucer (Oxford, 1988), pp. 1-6, and 66-157
C. S. Lewis, The Discarded Image - on medieval cosmography, or their sense of the world
and universe.
Ad Putter and Elizabeth Edwards, eds, The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian
Legend (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
T. Shippey, The Road to Middle Earth (Unwin, 1982). As much a potted history of the study
of medieval language and literature as of Tolkiens sources.
Lori J. Walters, ed., Lancelot and Guinevere: A Casebook (New York: Garland, 2002)

Language:
Burrow & Turville-Petre, ed., A Book of Middle English (Blackwell 1996)
METRO (Middle English Teaching Resources Online). Useful language resource from
Harvard
http://metro.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do

4. Renaissance and Early Modern Writing (c. 1500-1670)

Primary materials
More, Utopia, trans R. Robinson in Three Early Modern Utopias: Sir Thomas More's
Utopia, Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, Henry Neville's Isle of Pines , ed S. Bruce
(Oxford, 1999)
Machiavelli, The Prince
[Recommended translations Penguin, Oxford Worlds Classics, Cambridge Texts in the
History of Political Thought]
Virgil, The Aeneid [Recommended translations Penguin, Oxford Worlds Classics, Loeb]
Secondary Sources:
David Norbrook, Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance, revised edition (Oxford,
2002) [Introduction, chapter on More, postscript]
J.R. Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (1994, repr 2005)
Cerasano, S.P. and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds. Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts
and Documents. London: Routledge, 1996.
Dutton, Richard, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2009.
Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare's London. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2004.
Hattaway, Michael. A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture.
Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Mehl, Dieter, Angela Stock, and Anne-Julia Zwierlein, eds. Plotting Early Modern
London: New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate,
2004.
Shapiro, James. 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. London: Faber and
Faber, 2005.

RECOMMENDED EDITIONS OF SET TEXTS

Any text not listed here will be provided in photocopy

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Ancrene Wisse (excerpts), ed. and tr. B Millet and J. Wogan-Browne, in Medieval English Prose
for Women. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Complete text, ed. R. Hasenfratz (TEAMS,
2000) at http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/awintro.htm
-- trans. B. Millet, Exeter, 2009.
The Awntyrs off Arthure, ed. T. Hahn. Kalamazoo: TEAMS, 1995
http://lib.rochester.edu/Camelot/teams/awnintro.htm
Barratt, Alexandra, ed. Womens Writing in Middle English. London: Longman, 1992.
Cary, Elizabeth. The Tragedy of Mariam. Ed. Karen Britland. London: Methuen, 2010. Available
in the campus bookshop. (This play is also available online.)
Fulk, R. D. ed and tr. The Beowulf Manuscript. Cambridge, Mass.:Harvard University Press,
2010.
Henryson, Robert. Orpheus and Eurydice. Ed. R. Kindrick. Kalamazoo: TEAMS, 1997.
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/orphint.htm
Julian of Norwich, Shewings, ed. G. R. Cramptoun. Kalamazoo: TEAMS, 1994.
Miller, T., ed. and tr. The Old English Version of Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English
People. Translation available online - http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Bede_Miller.pdf
Middleton, Thomas. A Mad World My Masters. A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays
(Oxford World's Classics). Ed. Michael Taylor. Oxford: OUP, 2009. Available in the campus
bookshop. (This play is also available on EEBO and on LION, and in Thomas Middleton:
Collected Works.)
Sir Thomas Malory, The Tale of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere in Le Morte Darthur ed.
Helen Cooper (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Norbrook, David, ed. The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse 1509-1659. Harmondsworth:
Penguin Books, 1992.
Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, ed. Kenneth Muir. The Oxford Shakespeare.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Spenser, Edmund, The Shorter Poems, ed. Richard A. McCabe. Harmondsworth: Penguin
Books, 1999.
Spenser, Edmund, The Faerie Queene, ed. A. C. Hamilton et al. 2nd ed. Harlow: Longman, 2001.
Spenser, Edmund, A View of the Present State of Ireland - http://uoregon.edu/~rbear/veue1.html
Swanton, Michael, ed and tr. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. London: Phoenix, 2000.
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