[Fall 2001]

CLEN W4021 European Literature in the Middle Ages

Prof. Joan Ferrante
   

Major literary genres of the Middle Ages with particular attention to French, German, and Italian literature: epic, romance, lyric, autobiography, allegory. Texts, along with various editions and translations, are grouped below by genre, followed by extensive bibliographical material both on the genres and on individual works.

I. Texts and Translations
A.  Epic
B.  Romance
C.  Lyric
D.  Autobiography
E.  Allegory
II. Histories of Medieval Literature
III. General Reference
IV. Bibliographies
A.  Epic
      1. Beowulf
    2. Chanson de Roland
    3. Nibelungenlied
    4. Kudrun
  B.  Romance
      1. Chretien de Troyes
    2. Hartmann von Aue
    3. Wolfram von Eschenbach
    4. Tristan


TEXTS

EPIC

Beowulf, ed. E.V.J. Dobbie; F. Klaeber; tr. D. Wright (Penguin)
Chanson de Roland, ed. G.J. Brault, The Song of Roland (1978), text and tr.; tr. P. Terry (Macmillan)
Couronnement de Louis, ed. E. Langlois; tr. J.M. Ferrante, Four Twelfth-Century Epics (Columbia)
Aliscans, ed. C. Regnier (1990); tr. (partial) Ferrante
Raoul de Cambrai, ed. & tr. Sarah Kay (Oxford, 1992)
Nibelungenlied, ed. K. Bartsch-DeBoor; tr. A.T. Hatto (Penguin)
Kudrun, ed. Bartsch-Stachmann; tr. B. Murdoch; Gibbs & Johnson


ROMANCE

Eneas, ed. J.-J. Salverda de Grave, (1925-29); trans. J.A. Yunck
Le Roman de Thebes, ed. L. Constans (1890)
Benoit de Sainte Maure, Le Roman de Troie, ed. L. Constans (1904-12)

Chretien de Troyes, OEuvres completes, ed. D. Poirion et al (1994)
Romans, ed. M. Zink et al (1994); The Complete Romances, tr. David Staines (Indiana); William Kibler (Penguin)
Erec et Enide, ed. M. Roques (1955)
Cliges, ed. S. Gregory, C. Luttrell (1993), A. Micha (1970)
Yvain, ed. D. Hult (1994), T.B.W. Reid (1967)
Lancelot, ed. K. Uitti, A. Foulet (1989), M. Roques (1958)

Hartmann von Aue, Erec, ed. Leitzmann-Wolff (1972); tr J.W. Thomas
Iwein, L. Wolff (ed. 1968); tr. J.W. Thomas
Der arme Heinrich, ed. H. Paul-Leitzmann (1949), tr. Bell
(Peasant Life in Old German Epics)
Gregorius, text and tr. S.Z. Buehne, The Good Sinner (Ungar,1966)

Chretien de Troyes, Perceval, ed. K.Busby (1993), R. Pickens (1990), W. Roach (1956); tr. Staines
Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, ed. A. Leitzmann (1953-55); tr. A.T. Hatto (Penguin)
Willehalm, ed. A. Leitzmann (1958); tr. C.E. Passage (Ungar)

Beroul, Le Roman de Tristan, ed. E. Muret (1974); A. Ewert (1938); tr. Fedrick (Penguin)
Eilhart, Tristrant, ed. F. Lichtenstein (1877); H. Bussman (1969); tr. J. W. Thomas
Gottfried von Strassburg, Tristan und Isold, ed. F. Ranke (1967); tr. A.T. Hatto (Penguin)
Thomas, Les fragments du roman de Tristan, ed. B.H. Wind (1960); tr. A.T. Hatto (Penguin)
Brother Robert, Tristrams Saga, ed. E. Kolbing (1878); tr. P. Schach

Marie de France, Lais, ed. A. Ewert (1944); J. Rychner (1966); tr. R.W. Hanning, J.M. Ferrante (Labyrinth)
Fables, ed. K. Warnke (1898); ed, tr H. Spiegel (Toronto)
Renaut de Beaujeu (Bage), Le Bel Inconnu, ed. G.P. Williams (1929), ed., tr. K. Fresco, C.P. Donagher (1992)
Aucassin et Nicolette, ed. H. Suchier (1913), M. Roques (1955); tr. Goodrich; Burgess
Heldris de Cornualle, Le roman de Silence, ed. L. Thorpe; ed., tr. Sarah Roche-Mahdi (Colleagues) (Partenopeu de Blois, Florimont, Guillaume de Palerme, Escanor)

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LYRIC

selections from Latin, Provencal, German, and Italian lyrics
Lyrics of the Troubadours and Trouveres, German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages, texts and tr. Frederick Goldin

Andreas Capellanus, De arte honeste amandi, ed. P.G. Walsh, De amore libri tres (1982); tr. J.J. Parry (The Art of Courtly Love)


AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Augustine, Confessions, PL32, tr. R.S. Pine-Coffin (Penguin)
Abelard, Historia calamitatum, ed. J.T. Muckle, Medieval Studies,12 (1950); tr. B. Radice, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin)
Guibert of Nogent, Autobiographie, ed. E.R. Labande; tr. C.C.S. Bland, rev. J.F. Benton, Self and Society in Medieval France (MART)
Hildegard of Bingen, Vita Sanctae Hildegardis (as told to Godfrey and Theodoric), ed. M. Klaes (1993); tr. A. Silvas, "Saint H of B and the VSH," Tjurunga 29 (1985), 30, 31 (1986), 32 (1987)
Dante, Vita Nuova, ed. S.A. Barbi (1932); tr. M. Musa (Indiana)
Christine de Pisan, L'Avision Christine, ed. M.L. Towner (1922);tr. G.K. McLeod (Garland)


ALLEGORY

Prudentius, Psychomachia, ed. & tr. H.J. Thomson
Bernard Silvester, Cosmographia, ed. P. Dronke; tr. W. Wetherbee
Alanus de Insulis, De planctu Naturae, ed. N.M. Haring; tr. J.J. Sheridan
Anticlaudianus, ed. R. Bossuat; tr. J.J. Sheridan
Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose, ed. F. Lecoy; tr. C. Dahlberg
Dante, Divine Comedy, ed. G. Petrocchi; tr. A. Mandelbaum
Christine de Pizan, Cite des Dames, ed. M. Curnow, tr. E.J. Richards

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HISTORIES OF MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

Bossuat, R. Le Moyen Age (1967)
Camproux, C., Histoire de la litterature occitane (1953, rev.1971)
Crosland, J., Medieval French Literature (1956)
Gibbs, M.E., and S.M. Johnson, Medieval German Literature: A Companion (1997)
Green, D.H., Medieval Listening and Reading: The Primary Reception of German Literature, 800-1300 (1994)
Payen, J.C., Le moyen age (1984)
Zumthor, P., Histoire litteraire de la France medievale (1954)
DeBoor, H., and R. Newald, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur, vol. 1, 770-1170, v. 2, 1170-1250 (1949, 1953)
Schwietering, J., Die Deutsche Dichtung des Mittelalters (1957)
Walshe, M.O'C., Medieval German literature, A Survey (1962)
Jackson, W.T.H., The Literature of the Middle Ages (1960); Medieval Literature, a History and a Guide (1966)

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GENERAL REFERENCE

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— Huot, Sylvia, From Song to Book, the Poetics of Writing in OF Lyric and Narrative Poetry (1987)
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES
 

EPIC

— Andersson, T.M., Early Epic Scenery, Homer, Virgil and the Medieval Legacy (1976); The Legend of Brynhild (1980)
— Bédier, J., Les lègendes épiques (1908-21)
— Bowra, C.M., Heroic Poetry (1952)
— Calin, W.C., The Old French Epic of Revolt: Raoul de Cambrai, Renaud de Montauban, Gormond et Isembard (1962); The Epic Quest, Studies in Four Old French Chansons de Geste (1966)
— Campbell, R., Kudrun: A Critical Appreciation (1978)
— Crosland, J., The Old French Epic (1951)
— DeVries, J., Heroic Song and Heroic Legend (1959, tr. 1963)
— Foley, John M., The Theory of Oral Composition, History and Methodology (1988)
— Frappier, J., Les Chansons de geste du cycle de Guillaume d'Orange (1955)
— Hatto, A., Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry (1980)
— Jackson, W.T.H, The Hero and the King, an Epic Theme (1982)
— Ker, W.P., Epic and Romance (1896)
— Lejeune, R., Recherches sur le thème: les chansons de geste et l'histoire (1948)
— Lord, A.B., The Singer of Tales (1960); and Milman Parry, Serbo-Croatian Heroic Songs (1954)
— Matarasso, P., Recherches historiques et littéraires sur Raoul de Cambrai (1962)
— Rychner, J., La chanson de geste (1955)
— Schöller, H., ed., The Epic in Medieval Society, Aesthetic and Moral Values (1977)
— Siciliano, I., Les origines des chansons de geste (1951)

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BEOWULF


— Benson, L., "The Literary Character of Anglo-Saxon Formulaic Poetry," PMLA, 81 (1966), 334-41
— Fry, D.R., ed., The Beowulf Poet (1968); Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburh: A Bibliography (1969)
— Fulk, R.D., ed., Interpretations of Beowulf (1991)
— Hanning, R.H., "Beowulf as Heroic History," Med et Hum NS5 (1974), 77-102; "Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon Poetry," European Writers: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. W.T.H. Jackson (1983), 51-87
— Magon, F.P., "Oral-Formulaisc Character of Anglo-Saxon Poetry," Speculum 28 (1953), 446-67
— Nicholson, E., ed., An Anthology of Beowulf Criticism (1963)
— Short, D.D., Beowuld Scholarship: an Annotated Bibliography to 1978 (1980)

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CHANSON DE ROLAND

— Cook, R.F., The Sense of the 'Song of Roland" (1987)
— Duggan, J.J., The Song of Roland, Formulaic Style and Poetic Craft (1973)
— Goldin, F., The Song of Roland, trans. and commentary (1978)
— Jones, G.F. The Ethos of the Song of Roland (1963)
— LeGentil, P., La chanson de Roland (1955)
— Nichols, S.G., Formulaic Diction and Thematic Compositionn in the Chanson de Roland (1961)
— Vance, E., Reading the Song of Roland (1970)

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NIBELUNGENLIED

— Andersson, T.M., A Preface to the Nibelungenlied (1987)
— Bekker, H., The Nibelungenlied, a Literary Analysis (1971)
— Frakes, J.C., Brides and Doom, Gender, Property and Power in Medieval German Women's Epic (1994)
— Haymes, E.R., The Nibelungenlied: History and Intepretation (1986)
— Heusler, A., Nibelungensage und Nibelungenlied (1922)
— Mowatt, D.G., annd H. Sacker, The Nibelungenlied, an Interpretative Commentary (1967)
— Panzer, H. Das Nibelungenlied (1955)
— Reichert, H., Nibelungenlied und Nibelungensage (1985)
— Thorp, M., The Study of the Nibelungenlied from 1755 to 1937 (1940)
— Weber, G., Das Nibelungenlied: Problem und Idee (1963)

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KUDRUN

— Campbell, R., Kudrun: A Critical Appreciation (1978)
— Frankes, J.C., Brides and Doon (1994)
— McConnell, W., The Epic of Kudrun, A Critical Commentary (1988)
— Waites, S.L., "The Romance of Kudrun," Spec 58 (1983), 347-67


ROMANCE

— Fourrier, A. Le courant réaliste dans le roman courtois en France au moyen âge (1960)
— Green, D.H., Irony in the Medieval Romance (1979)
— Haidu, P., ed., Approaches to Medieval Romance, YFS 51 (1974)
— Huby, M., L'adaptation des romans courtois en Allemagne au XIIe et au XIIIe siècle (1968)
— Kahn-Blumstein, A., Misogyny and Idealization in the Courtly Romance (1977)
— Kelly, D., The Art of Medieval French Romance (1992)
— Köhler, E., Ideal und Wirklichkeit in der höfischen Epik (1956)
— Loomis, A.S., ed., Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages (1959)
— Owen, D.D.R., ed., Arthurian Romance, Seven Essays (1970)
— Schultz, J.A., The Shape of the Round Table, Structure of Middle high German Arthurian Romance (1983)
— Stevens, John, Medieval Romance: Themes and Approaches (1973)
— Vinaver, E., The Rise of Romance (1971)
— Wolfzettel, F., ed., Arthurian Romance and Gender (1995)
— BBSIA, Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society

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CHRETIEN DE TROYES

— Bezzola, R.R., Le sens de l'aventure et de l'amour (1968)
— Frappier, J., Chrétien de Troyes (1957)
— Haidu, P., Aesthetic Distance in Chrétien de Troyes: Irony and Comedy in Cliges and Perceval (1968); Lion-queue-coupée (1972)
— Hindman, S., Sealed in Parchment: Rereadings of Knighthood in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes (1994)
— Kelly, D., Chrétien de Troyes, an Analytic Bibliography (1977); Sens and Conjointure in the Chevalier de la Charrete (1966); ed., The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes: a Symposium (1985)
— Lacy, W.J., The Craft of Chrétien de Troyes: an Essay on Narrative Art (1980)
— Loomis, R.S., Arthurian Tradition and Chrétien de Troyes (1949)
— Noble, Peter, Love and Marriage in Chrétien de Troyes (1982); and L.M. Pateron, Chrétien de Troyes and the Troubadours: Essays in Memory of the Late Leslie Topsfield (1984)
— Pickens, R.T., ed., The Sower and His Seed, Essays on Chrétien de Troyes (1983)
— Polak, L., Chrétien de Troyes: Cligès (1982)
— Topsfield, L.T., Chrétien de Troyes, A Study of the Arthurian Romances (1981)
Zaddy,. Z.P., Chrétien de Troyes. Problems of Form and Meaning (1973)

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HARTMANN VON AUE

— Bumke, J., Die romanisch-deutschen Literaturbeziehungen im Mit telalter (1967)
— Clark, S.L., Hartmann von Aue: Landscapes of Mind (1989)
— Eggers, H., Symmetrie und Proportion epischen Erzählens. Studien zur Kunstform Hartmann von Aue (1956)
— Jackson, W.H., Chivalry in Tweflth Century Germany: The Works of Hartmann von Aue (1994)
— McFarland, T. and S. Ranawake, Hartmann von Aue: Changing Perspectives (1988)
— Sparnaay, H., Hartmann von Aue, Studien zu einer Biographie (1934, 1938)
— Wapnewski, P., Hartmann von Aue (1962)

WOLFRAM VON ESCHENBACH

— Blamires, D., Characterization and Individuality in W's Parzival (1966)
— Bumke, J., Die WvE Forschung seit 1945, Bericht und Bibliogrpahie (1970)
— Green, D.H., The Art of Recognition in W's Parzival (1982); and L.P. Johnson, Approaches to WvE, Five Essays (1978)
— Kratz, H., WvE's Parzival, an Attempt at a Total Valuation (1973)
— Nellman, E., Wolframs Erzähltechnik (1973)
— Richey, M.F., Studies of WvE (1957)
— Sacker, H., An Introduction to Wolfram's Parzival (1963)
— Wapnewski, P., Ws Parzival, Studien zur Religiosität und Form (1955)

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TRISTAN

— Combridge, R.N., Das Recht im Tristan Gottfrieds (1964)
— Ferrante, J.M., The Conflict of Love and Honor, the Medieval Tristan Legend in Francem Germany, and Italy (1973)
— Jackson, W.T.H., The Anatomy of Love, the Tristan of GvS (1971)
— Jaeger, C.S., Medieval Humanism in GvS Tristan and Isolde (1977)
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