Old English Literature: A Select Bibliography (Mediaeval Bibliography)

85 Pages·1970·4.121 MB·English

by  Fred C. Robinson (editor)

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