Old and Middle English Literature

132 Pages·1968·4.75 MB·English

by  William Matthews

Old and Middle English
Literature
GOLDENTREE BIBLIOGRAPHIES
In Language and Literature
under the series editorship of
O. B. Hardison, Jr.
Old and Middle English
Literature
compiled by
William Matthews
University oj California, Los Angeles
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Preface
THE FOLLOWING BIBLIOGRAPHY is for graduate and ad-
vanced undergraduate students who desire a convenient guide to
scholarship in the broader and more important areas of English
literature and culture before 1525. The listing is necessarily se­
lective, but every effort has been made to provide ample coverage
of the major works and topics and adequate representation of
minor ones. Anglo-Latin and Anglo-French writings, which are
no less part of the literary product of England during this period
than those in English, are given suitable recognition. Chaucer,
the subject of a full bibliography in this series, is represented
simply by a corporal’s guard of major studies, many of which are
relevant to the work of other writers of the period. The bulk of
the items reflect American and British scholarship and criticism
of the last thirty years or so. Some important studies in French
and German are included, however, as well as Continental studies
written in English. Except for a few important items the cut-off
date is 1965.
In order to keep this bibliography to a practical size, it has
been necessary to omit a number of references: unpublished dis­
sertations, literary histories (except for a few), most bibliographies
of bibliography, short notes and explications (except when they
contain important data), and older biographical studies that have
been superseded by later work. Hence many good books, and even
more good articles, have had to be neglected. To these victims of
the imperatives of limits, I tender apologies; users of this bibliog­
raphy will, I hope, hasten to repair my wrongs in the margins.
In general, the compiler has steered a middle course between
the brief lists of references included in the average textbooks and
the long professional bibliography in which significant items are
often lost in the sheer number of references given. This bibliog­
raphy should materially assist the student in his effort to survey
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a topic, write reports and term papers, prepare for examinations,
and do independent reading. Attention is called to four features
intended to enhance its utility.
(1) Extra margin on each page permits listing of library call-
numbers of often-used items.
(2) Space at the bottom of every page permits inclusion of
additional entries, and blank pages for notes follow the
final entry.
(3) An index of medieval authors and anonymous writings,
and an index of modern authors follow the bibliography
proper.
(4) The Index and cross-reference numbers direct the reader
to the page and position-on-the-page of the desired entry.
Thus, in an entry such as
Orosius, Paulus. King Alfred’s Orosius, ed. Henry Sweet, EETS 79,
London, 1883 (Old English and Latin). Tr. in Pauli [23.14].
the number 23.14 indicates that the entry referred to is
on page 23, and is the 14th item on the page. Both page
numbers and individual entry numbers are conspicuous
in size and position so that the process of finding entries
is fast as well as simple.
Although the order of entry is usually alphabetical, by author
or title, the nature of the material sometimes makes other arrange­
ments more convenient. Thus, when critical items on a particular
work are few, they are placed directly after the work itself; Eng­
lish chronicles are given chronologically; romances are grouped
by theme. Strictly alphabetical arrangement of medieval authors
and works, and also of commentators, is given in the two indexes.
Primary sources are indicated by listing the initial entry in
large capital letters. Additional annotations, given in brackets,
which may conclude an entry are: (1) abbreviations of paperback
publishers and series numbers, all based on the list of abbrevia­
tions given in Paperbound Books in Print; (2) cross reference(s)
to other entries in the bibliography in which the work cited is
also included; (3) a phrase describing the subject of an allusive
title.
Symbols for journals and series cited herein generally follow
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the standard forms given at the beginning of recent PMLA bibliog­
raphies. The symbols and their meanings are as follows:
ABR American Benedictine Review
AnM Annuale Mediævale (Duquesne University)
ANTS Anglo-Norman Text Society
BJRL Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
BR Benedictine Review
CE College English
CFMA Classiques français du moyen âge
CL Comparative Literature
EA Etudes anglaises
E&S Essays and Studies by Members of the English As­
sociation
EDH Essays by Divers Hands (Royal Society of Litera­
ture)
EETS Early English Text Society
EETSes Early English Text Society, extra series
EGS English and Germanic Studies
EHR English Historical Review
EIC Essays in Criticism (Oxford)
EIE English Institute Essays
ELH Journal of English Literary History
ES English Studies
ESt Englische Studien
hlq Huntington Library Quarterly
HarSE Harvard Studies in English
JAF Journal of American Folklore
JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology
JWCI Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute
KHVL Kungl. Humanistika Vetenskapssamfundets i Lund
MA Le Moyen Âge
MÆ Medium Ævum
MLN Modern Language Notes
MLQ Modern Language Quarterly
MLR Modern Language Review
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MP Modern Philology
MS Mediaeval Studies (Toronto)
NB Namn och Bygd
Neophil Neophilologus
NM Neuphilologische Mitteilungen
OHEA Oxford History of English Art
OHE Oxford History of England
OHEL Oxford History of English Literature
OHM Oxford History of Music
PAPS Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
PBA Proceedings of the British Academy
PMLA Publications of the Modern Language Association
of America
PQ Philological Quarterly
RES Review of English Studies
RPh Romance Philology
RoS Rolls Series
RR Romanic Review
RS Research Studies, Washington State University
SATF Société des Anciens Textes Français
SHR Scottish Historical Review
SN Studia Neophilologica
SP Studies in Philology
SSLL Stanford Studies in Language and Literature
STS Scottish Text Society
TPS Transactions of the Philological Society, London
TRHS Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
TSE Tulane Studies in English
TSL Tennessee Studies in Literature
TSLL Texas Studies in Literature and Language
TWA Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sci­
ences, Arts and Letters
UCPES University of California Publications, English Se­
ries
UCPMP University of California Publications in Modern
Philology