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Old English Literature A Select Bibliography FRED C. ROBINSON OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY FRED C. ROBINSON Old English Literature A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY TORONTO MEDIEVAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Copyright Canada 1970 by University of Toronto Press Printed in Holland SBN 802.0•402.6-I Reprinted in 2018 ISBN 978-0-8020-4026-8 (paper) TORONTO MEDIEVAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES Editor: John Lcyerle Director, CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES University of Toronto 1 OLD NORSE-ICELANDIC STUDIES by Hans Bekker-Nielsen, Editor, Medi- ae,,a/ S,andifl(lllia, Co-editor of Bib/iograplry ofO ld Norse-l&elandi& Studies and of Den ArnamagManske Ko111111issio111 Ordbog, Odense University. 2 OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE by Fred C.Robinson, Bibliographer of the Old English Group of the Modem Language Association of America, Stanford University. In Preparation MEDIEVAL CELTIC LITERATURE by Rachel Bromwich, Lecturer in Celtic Languages and Literature, University of Cambridge. MEDIEVAL LATIN LITERATURE by A.G. Rigg, University of Toronto. LATIN PALAEOGRAPHY TO 1500 by Leonard E. Boyle, O.P., Pontifical In- stitute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. MEDIEVAL RHETORIC by James J. Murphy, Chairman, Department of Rhetoric, University of California (Davis). MEDIEVAL EXACT SCIENCE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY by John E. Mur- doch, Chairman, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University. MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE, L.D.Benson, Assistant Editor, Spe&11/11111, Harvard University. Contents Editor's Preface viii Preface x Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xiv I TEXTS 3 Collective editions 3 Facsimile editions 4 Collective translations in prose ~ II LITERA"RY HISTORY, CRITICISM, AND VERSIFICATION 7 Comprehensive critical-historical surveys 7 Stylistic studies 8 Studies of special aspects of form and content 9 Versification 1 1 III INDIVIDUAL WRITERS AND MONUMENTS 13 Poetry 13 Prose 41 IV FUNDAMENTAL REFERENCE WORKS j I Bibliographics 51 Dictionaries 5z . Concordances 53 Biblical quotations 54 Grammars 54 V GUIDE TO ANCILLARY SUBJECTS 56 General bibliography 56 Anglo-Latin literature 57 Archaeology 57 Art and architecture 58 Early English libraries 58 Historical geography s9 History 59 Paleography 60 Religion, magic, and mythology 60 Runology 61 INDEX 63 Editor's Preface The study of the Middle Ages has been developed chiefly within university departments such as English or History. This pattern is increasingly being supplemented by an interdisciplinary approach in which the plan of work is shaped to fit the subject studied. The difference of approach is between Chaucer the English poet and Chaucer the civil servant of London attached to the court of Richardn, a man interested in the Ptolemaic universe and widely read in Latin, French, and Italian. Interdisciplinary programs tend to lead readers into areas relatively unfamiliar to them where critical bibliogra- phies prepared with careful selectivity by an expert are essential. The Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto takes such an interdisci- plinary approach to the Middle Ages, and the need for selective bibliogra- phies has become apparent in our work. The Centre has undertaken to meet this need by sponsoring the Toronto Medieval Bibliographics. In his valuable guide, Serial Biblioqapllier for Medieval Studies,* Richard H. Rouse describes 283 bibliographies; the number is surprisingly large and indicates the considerable effort now being made to provide inclusive lists of items relevant to medieval studies. The total amount in print is already vast; for one unfamiliar with a subject, significant work is difficult to locate and the problem grows worse with each ycar'i output. The reader may well say, like the throng in Piers Plo1111111111 seeking the way to Trt11tke, "This were a wikked way but who-so haddc a gyde" (B. vi. 1). The Toronto Medieval Bibliographics arc meant to be such guides; each title is prepared by an expert and gives directions to important work in the subject. *Publications of the C.cnter for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 3, University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles (Berkeley and Loa Angeles, 1969). Each title presents a list of w<>rks selected with three specific aims. One is to aid students who arc rclativdy new to the area of study, for example Old Norse and Icdandic. Another is to guide more advanced readers in a subject where they have had little formal training, for example, Medieval Rhetoric or Latin Literature; and the third is to assist new libraries in form- ing a basic collt.etion in the subject presented. Individual compilers arc given scope to organize a presentation that they judge will best suit their subject and also to make brief critical comments as they think fit. Clarity and useful- ness of a volume are preferred over any demand for exact uniformity from one volume to another. JL

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