Below is my total reading list. The items in blue are ones that I have read before but will need to revisit before my exam. I will likely take my exam towards the end of April, so I'm already at item per day territory.
Major Field: Medieval: Middle English Literature
Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace. Ed. Edward E. Foster. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007.
· Sir Amadace
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. Trans. Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella. New York: Signet Classic, 1982.
Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy. Trans. Richard Green. New York: Macmillan Pub. Co., 1962. Print.
Capgrave, John. Life of Saint Katherine. Ed. Karen A. Winstead. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Pub., 1999. Print.
***Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer. 3rd ed. Ed. Larry D. Benson, et al. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. Print.
· Book of the Duchess
· The Canterbury Tales
· House of Fame
· Legend of Good Women
· Parliament of Fowls
· Troilus and Criseyde
The Complete Works of the Pearl Poet. Trans. Casey Finch. Berkeley: U of Cal. P., 1993. Print.
[with Middle English Text ed. by Malcolm Andrew, Ronald Waldron, and Clifford Peterson]
· Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
· Pearl
· Patience
· Cleanness
Davis, Norman ed. Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. Print.
The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers. Ed. John William Sutton. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007. Print.
English Mystery Plays: A Selection. Ed. Peter Happe. London: Penguin, 1985.
· Abraham and Isaac [Brome]
· Crucifixion [York Cycle # 35]
· Killing of Abel [Towneley Cycle #2]
· Noah [Chester Cycle #3]
· The Second Shepherd’s Play [Towneley Cycle #13]
Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc. Ed. Clifford Davidson, Martin W. Walsh, and Ton J. Broos. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007.
· Everyman
Four Romances of England: Ed. Ronald B. Herzman, Graham Drake, and Eve Salisbury. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1999. Print.
· King Horn
· Havelok the Dane
· Bevis of Hampton
· Athelston
***Gower, John. Confessio Amantis Vol 1. Ed. Russel A. Peck. Latin Trans. Andrew
Galloway. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Series ed. Russel A. Peck.
Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2000. Print.
---. Confessio Amantis. Vol 2. Ed. Russell A. Peck. Latin Trans. Andrew Galloway.
TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Series ed. Russel A. Peck. Kalamazoo,
Michigan, 2003. Print.
---. Confessio Amantis. Vol 3. Ed. Russell A. Peck. Latin Trans. Andrew Galloway.
TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Series ed. Russel A. Peck. Kalamazoo,
Michigan, 2004. Print.
---. The French Ballads. Ed. Yeager.
***---. Mirour de L’Omme. Trans. Wilson.
---. Visio Anglie.
Hoccleve, Thomas. ‘My Compleinte’ and Other Poems. Ed. Roger Ellis. Reprint. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2008.
"La Male Regle de T. Hoccleue"
"My Compleinte"
---. Regiment of Princes. Ed. Charles R. Blyth. Kalamazoon: Medieval Institute Pub., 1999. Print.
Julian of Norwich. The Shewings of Julian of Norwich. The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love. Ed. Nicholas Watson and Jacqueline Jenkins. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
***Kempe, Margery. The Book of Margery Kempe. Ed. Lynn Staley. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996.
King Arthur’s Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure. Revised Edition. Ed. Larry D. Benson and Edward E. Foster. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996.
· Alliterative Morte Arthure
***Langland, William. The Vision of Piers Plowman: A Critical Edition of the B-Text Based on Trinity College Cambridge MS B.15.17. 2nd ed. Ed. A. V. C. Schmidt. London: Everyman, 1995. Print.
Lydgate, John. The Siege of Thebes. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2001. Print.
***Malory, Thomas. Le Morte D’Arthur. Ed. Stephen H. A. Shepherd. New York City: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
Marie de France. The Lays of Marie de France. Trans. Edward J. Gallagher. Cambridge, MA: Hackett Publishing Company, 2010.
***The Middle English Breton Lays. Eds. Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Pub., 1995. Print.
· Emaré
· Sir Degare
· Sir Orfeo
· Sir Launfal
Middle English Legends of Women Saints. Ed. Sherry Reames. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2003. Print.
· Stanzaic Life of Margaret
· Stanzaic Life of Katherine
Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales. Ed. Thomas Hahn. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995.
· The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle
· Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle
Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain. Ed. Mary Flowers Braswell. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995.
· Sir Perceval of Galles
· Ywain and Gawain
Saints’ Lives in Middle English Collections. Ed. Gordon Whatley, with Anne B. Thompson and Robert K. Upchurch. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2004.
· The Martyrdom of St. George
· St. George and the Dragon
· St. Jerome and the Lion
· The Life of St. Francis
Wynnere and Wastoure. Ed. Warren Ginsberg. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992. Print.
Secondary Reading:
Bennett, Michael. Community, Class, and Careerism: Cheshire and Lancashire Society in the Age of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. Print.
Butterfield, Ardis. The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. Print.
Dyer, Christopher. Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Print.
Edmondson, George. The Neighboring Text: Chaucer, Boccaccio, Henryson. South Bend: U of Notre Dame P, 2011. Print.
Green, Richard Firth. Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Print.
Hanna, Ralph, III. "'Ledeþ hire to Londoun þere lawe is yshewed': Piers Plowman B, London 1377." London Literature, 1300-1380. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 57. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Print.
Karras, Ruth. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. New York: Routledge, 2005. Print.
Lipton, Emma. Affections of the Mind: The Politics of Sacramental Marriage in Late Medieval English Literature. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 2007. Print.
Mann, Jill. Feminizing Chaucer. Cambridge: Boydell, 2002. Print.
Matthews, David. Writing to the King: Nation, Kingship and Literature in England, 1250-1350. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. Print.
Minnis, Alastair J. Fallible Authors: Chaucer’s Pardoner and Wife of Bath. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2008. Print.
Nicholson, Peter. Love & Ethics in Gower's Confessio. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2005. Print.
Nuttall, Jeni. The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship: Literature, Language and Politics in Late Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. Print.
Patterson, Lee. Chaucer and the Subject of History. U of Wisconson P, 1991. Print.
***Simpson, James. Piers Plowman: an Introduction. Exeter: U of Exeter P, 2007. Print.
Staley, Lynn. Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II. Pennsylvania State UP, 2006. Print.
Strohm, Paul. England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422. New Haven: Yale UP, 1998. Print.
---. Social Chaucer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1989. Print.
---, Ed. Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature: Middle English. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. Print.
· Diane Cady. “Symbolic Economies.”
· D. Vance Smith. “Institutions.”
· Carolyn Dinshaw. “Temporalities.”
· Kellie Robertson. “Authorial Work.”
· Stephanie Trigg. “How to Live.”
Trigg, Stephanie. “The Traffic in Medieval women: Alice Perrers, Feminist Criticism, and Piers Plowman.” The Yearbook of Langland Studies. 12. (1998): 5-27. Print.
Minor Reading List: Medieval Economic Thought
Abrams, A. “Women Traders in Medieval London.” The Economic Journal: The Economic Journal of the Royal Economic Society, no. 26. (1916): 276-285. Print.
Allen, Martin. Mints and Money in Medieval England Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012. Print.
Aristotle. The Nichomachean Ethics. Translated by F.H. Peters. New York: Penguin, 2004. Print.
Bennett, Judith. Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender & Household in Brigstock Before the Plague. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Print.
Cady, Diane. “The Gender of Money.” Genders. 44 (2006). Web. 5 Dec. 2009.
Cooper, Lisa. Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. Print.
Crassons, Kate. The Claims of Poverty: Literature, Culture, and Ideology in Late Medieval England. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. Print.
Davis, James. Medieval Market Morality: Life, Law, and Ethics in the English Marketplace, 1200-1500. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012. Print.
Fowler, Elizabeth. “Civil Death and the Maiden: Agency and the Conditions of Contract in Piers Plowman.” Speculum, no 70.4 (Oct. 1995): 760-792. JSTOR. Web. 30 Nov. 2009.
Gastle, Brian. “Breaking the Stained-Glass Ceiling: Mercantile Authority, Margaret Paston, and Margery Kempe.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 36.1 (2003): 123-147.
Gramsci, Antonio. “Selections From the Prison Notebooks.” An Anthology of Western Marxism: From Lukács and Gramsci to Socialist-Feminism. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989. Print.
Hanawalt, Barbara. The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Harris, Gerald. Shaping the Nation: England 1360-1461. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. Print.
Hilton, Rodney. "Women Traders in Medieval England." Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism. London: Hambledon Press, 1985.
Howell, Martha C. Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. Print.
Jameson, Frederic. Marxism and Form: Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1974. Print.
Johnson, Charles, trans. The De Moneta of Nicolaus Oresme and The English Mint Documents. Auburn, Alabama: The Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2009. Print.
Kaye, Joel. Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of the Scientific Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. Print.
---. “Monetary and Market Consciousness in Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Europe.” Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice. Ed. S. Todd Lowry and Barry Gordon. New York, NY: Brill, 1998. 371-404. Print.
Knapp, Ethan. The Bureaucratic Muse: Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.
Kowaleski, Mary Anne and Judith Bennett. “Crafts, Guilds, and Women in the Middle Ages: Fifty Years after Marian K. Dale.” Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. 11-38.
Ladd, Roger. Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature. New York: Palgrave, 2010. Print.
---. “Margery Kempe and her Mercantile Mysticism.” Fifteenth-Century Studies 26 (2001): 121-141.
Langholm, Odd. Economics in the Medieval Schools. New York, NY: Brill, 1992. Print.
Little, Lester. Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1983. Print.
Lukacs, György. The Historical Novel. Kearney: U of Nebraska P, 1983. Print.
Medieval English Political Writings. Ed. James Dean. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996. Print.
"The Simonie" "Above All Thing Thow Arte a Kyng" "In Erth It Es a Litill Thing (Sir Penny)" "London Lickpenny"
Meikle, Scott. Aristotle’s Economic Thought. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997. Print.
Menut, Albert Douglas. Maistre Nicole Oresme: Le livre de Yconomique d‘Aristote. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1957. Print.
Nightingale, Pamela. "The growth of London in the medieval English economy." Trade, Money, and Power in Medieval England. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Variorum, 2007.
Robertson, Kellie. The Laborer’s Two Bodies: Labor and the “Work” of the Text in Medieval Britain, 1350-1500. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Print.
Shoaf, R. A. Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word. Norman: Pilgirm, 1983. Print.
Spufford, Peter. Money and its Use in Medieval Europe. NY: Cambridge UP, 1988.
- - -. Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe. London: Thames of Hudson, 2003.
Watts, John. The Making of Polities: Europe 1300-1500. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. Print.
Williams, Raymond. “Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory.” The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism. New York, NY: Norton, 2010. Print.
Wood, Diana. Medieval Economic Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. Print.
Vance Smith, D. Arts of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003).
Vitullo, Juliann and Diane Wolfthal, eds. Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2010. Print.
· Robert S. Sturges “‘Nerehand nothyng to pay or to take”: Poverty, Labor, and Money in Four Towneley Plays.”
· Juliann Vitullo and Diane Wolfthal“Trading Values: Negotiating Masculinity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe”
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