Survey
of Medieval English Literature
ENGL 417
Spring 2019
Time: MWF
9:00–9:50 a.m.
Place:
HLG 321
Professor: Dr. Chris Healy
Materials
Useful Links
Professor: Dr. Chris Healy
Materials
Useful Links
- Language
- Chaucer's Pronunciation, Grammar and Vocabulary (an audio guide to basic Middle English pronunciation)
- Notes on translating Middle English (from Wessex Parallel WebTexts)
- Lyrics
- Middle English Lyrics: Texts ()
- "Sumer Is Icumen In"
- "Mrie It Is While Sumer Ilast"
- Hear the song when the page opens.
- An interesting argument about why the melody above might be wrong
- "Foweles in the Frith"
- "Alysoun"
- "Lenten Is Come with Love to Town"
- "The Man in the Moon"
- Here is a picture of the moon and its craters.
- Here the figure to which this lyric refers is outlined.
- "Nou Skrinketh rose"
- “Maiden in the Moor Lay”
- Bestiary
- The Medieval Bestiary (Read about animals other than those in your textbook.)
- The Owl and the Nightingale
- Medieval Bestiary: Beast Index (Read contemporaneous understandings of the animals personified in the text.)
- Nightingale - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Listen to a recording of a nightingale singing.)
- Nightingale's song
- Piers Plowman
- William Langland (c. 1332?- 1400?) ()
- William Langland (c. 1330- 1387) ()
- William Langland's The vision of Piers Plowman ()
- The Texts of Piers Plowman ()
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 293 ()
- The International Piers Plowman Society ()
- Five Fascinating Facts about Piers Plowman ()
- Pearl
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1375 - 1400) ()
- Gawain Shield Worksheet (A helpful way to learn the symbolism)
- Medieval Bestiary: Beast Index (Read contemporaneous understandings of the animals hunted in Fitte 3.)
- The Poem as Green Girdle: Commercium in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ()
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (BBC Documentary) ()
- The Land of Cockaygne
- Wessex Parallel WebTexts (Information including background, manuscript view, translation, etc.)
- Second Shepherds’ Play
- The Second Shepherds' Play (an e-text)
- The Towneley Plays (Read the other plays in the collection.)
- The Wakefield (Towneley) Cycle (Read the other plays in the cycle.)
- The Second Shepherds' Play (Watch a performance of the play.)
- Ballads
- "Sir Patrick Spens"
- Moon and Earthshine (This image shows the astronomical event to which lines 25-26 refer.)
General
Medieval Information
- Middle English Dictionary (Explore the definition of a word.)
- Glossarial Concordance to Middle English (The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and the English Works of John Gower)
- Digital Index of Middle English Verse
- Some Important Events in the Fourteenth Century (helpful history)
- Luminarium: Anthology of Middle English Literature
- Labyrinth (Resources for Medieval Studies)
- NetSERF (The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources)
- Voice of the Shuttle: Anglo-Saxon & Medieval
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Paul Halsall's excellent collection of texts on medieval culture)
- Catholic Encyclopedia (an excellent resource for more than Catholicism)
- Medieval Literature Resources (Kip Wheeler's excellent learning tool)
- The English Language in the Fourteenth Century ()
MLA
Style
ULL Links
- Works Cited: A Quick Guide (from The MLA Style Center)
- MLA Style (a helpful Web
- site at the Purdue University Online Writing Lab)
ULL Links
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Last modified: April 9, 2019