Broadview Anthology of Literature: Medieval Period, Vol. 1 Book

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction to The Medieval Period History, Narrative, Culture England Before the Norman Conquest Roman and Celtic Britain Migration and Conversion Invasion and Unification England After the Norman Conquest The Normans and Feudalism Henry II and an International Culture The Thirteenth Century The English Monarchy Cultural Expression in the Fourteenth Century Fifteenth-Century Transitions Language and Prosody

History of the Language and of Print Culture

BEDE from Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation A Description of the Island of Britain and its Inhabitants The Coming of the English to Britain The Life and Conversion of Edwin, King of Northumbria; the Faith of the East Angles Abbess Hild of Whitby; the Miraculous Poet Cædmon Cædmon’s Hymn in Old and Modern English

EXETER BOOK ELEGIES The Wanderer The Seafarer The Wife's Lament The Ruin

THE DREAM OF THE ROOD

THE COTTON MAXIMS

EXETER BOOK RIDDLES Riddle 5
Riddle 12
Riddle 23
Riddle 24
Riddle 41
Riddle 42
Riddle 43
Riddle 45
Riddle 81
Riddle 82
Riddle 91

OLD ENGLISH METRICAL CHARMS The Old English Bee Charm Against a Dwarf For a Sudden Stitch The Nine Herbs Charm

BEOWULF In Context: Background Material Glossary of Proper Names Genealogies The Geatish-Swedish Wars

JUDITH

THE BATTLE OF MALDON

EXODUS

THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The Coming of the Angles and Saxons to Britain (449-95)
The Story of Cynewulf and Cyneheard (755)
King Alfred's Early Years (871-78)
King Æthelred's Troubles (980-93)
The Life and Death of William the Conqueror (1086)

ALFRED THE GREAT, KING OF WESSEX
"Preface" to the Old English Version of Gregory the Great’s Pastoral Care

ÆLFRIC OF EYNSHAM The Passion of Saint Edmund, King and Martyr

SAINT MARY OF EGYPT The Passing of Mary of Egypt

WULFSTAN Sermo Lupi ad Anglos

BLICKLING HOMILIES Homily 10

GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH from A History of the Kings of Britain

MARIE DE FRANCE Bisclavret (The Werewolf)
Lanval Laüstic (The Nightingale)
Chevrefoil (The Honeysuckle)

MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS Sumer is icumen in Now goth sonne under wod Foweles in the frith Betwene Mersh and Averil Now shrinketh rose and lily-flour Lenten is come with love to toune Stond well, moder, under Rode Maiden in the mor lay I lovede a child of this cuntree Erthe tok of erthe erthe with woh When Adam delf The Lady Dame Fortune is both frende and foe I have a gentil cock I sing of a maiden Adam lay ibounden Farewell this world, I take my leve forever To dy, to dy. What haue I Bring us in good ale Of all creatures women be best My lefe is faren in a lond A God and yet a man

CONTEXTS: THE CRISES OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY The Great Famine from Anonymous (the "Monk of Malmesbury"), Life of Edward the Second The Hundred Years' War from Jean Froissart, Chronicle from Prince Edward, "Letter to the People of London"
The Black Death from Ralph of Shrewsbury, Letter (17 August 1348)
from Henry Knighton, Chronicle The Uprising of 1381
from Regulations, London (1350)
from Statute of Laborers (1351)
from Statute (1363)
from Jean Froissart, Chronicle, Account of a Sermon by John Ball John Ball, Letter to the Common People of Essex, 1381
from Henry Knighton, Chronicle

SIR ORFEO

THE MABINOGI Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT In Context: Fled Bricrend from Fled Bricrend/Bricriu’s Feast In Context: Illustrations from the Original Manuscript

CONTEXTS: LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN MEDIEVAL BRITAIN Anglo-Saxon Laws from The Laws of Æthelberht from The Laws of Cnut from The Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215)
from Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love from The Owl and the Nightingale Royal Couples from Christine de Pizan, "Seulete sui" (Alone am I)
from The Paston Letters from Letter from Agnes Paston to her son John Paston I (c. 1449)
from Letter from Richard Calle to Margery Paston (1469)
from William Langland, The Vision of Piers the Plowman from Robert Grosseteste (attr.), Speculum Confessionis from Eadmer, The Life of Saint Anselm from Letter of Anselm to fellow monks from The Rule of Saint Benedict, Chapter 22: How the Brothers Are to Sleep from Anonymous, A Relation, or Rather a True Account, of the Island of England, with Sundry Particulars of the Customs of These People, and of the Royal Revenues under King Henry the Seventh

GEOFFREY CHAUCER from The Canterbury Tales The General Prologue The Knight’s Tale The Miller’s Prologue and Tale The Prologue The Tale The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale The Prologue The Tale The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale The Prologue The Tale The Franklin’s Prologue and Tale The Prologue The Tale The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale The Introduction The Prologue The Tale The Prioress’s Prologue and Tale The Prologue The Tale The Nun’s Preist’s Prologue and Tale The Prologue The Tale Chaucer’s Retraction In Context: Backgrounds to The Canterbury Tales Poems To His Scribe Adam Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse Lenvoy de Chaucer from Troilus and Criseyde Troilus’s Song

THE TRAVELS OF SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville Prologue Chapter 7
Chapter 15
Chapter 20
Chapter 29

JULIAN OF NORWICH from A Revelation of Love Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 5
Chapter 7
Chapter 11
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 58
Chapter 60
Chapter 86

MARGERY KEMPE from The Book of Margery Kempe The Proem The Preface Book 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 11
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 86
Book 2
Chapter 10

CONTEXTS: RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL LIFE Celtic Christianity Church and Cathedral Religion for All: The Apostle's Creed, the Pater Noster, and the Hail Mary from Robert Manning of Brunne, Handlyng Synne from William of Pagula, Priest’s Eye from The Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council Monks, Anchoresses, and Friars from The Rule of St. Columba from The Rule of St. Benedict from The Ancrene Wisse Franciscan Friars Scholasticism from St. Anselm, Proslogion The Miraculous and the Strange from The Miracles of Thomas of Becket Sin, Corruption, and Indulgence from William Langland, The Vision of Piers the Plowman (B-text)
from Passus 1
Passus 5
from Passus 7
from Thomas Wimbleton, Sermon (c. 1388)
Lollardy from Account of the Heresy Trial of Margery Baxter The Persecution of the Jews from Thomas of Monmouth, The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich from Roger Howden, Chronicle from The Ordinances of the Jews from The Charter of King John to the Jews from The Ordinances of Henry III Edward I’s Order

MEDIEVAL DRAMA

QUEM QUAERITIS The Quem Quaeritis Ceremony from Regularis Concordia of St. Æthelwold

THE CHESTER NOAH'S FLOOD The Third Pageant of Noah's Flood In Context: Biblical Source Material from Douay-Rheims Bible, Genesis 6-9

THE WAKEFIELD MASTER The Second Shepherds' Play In Context: Biblical Source Material from Douay-Rheims Bible, Luke 2.8-21

Herod the Great In Context: Biblical Source Material from Douay-Rheims Bible, Matthew 2

THE SERVICE FOR REPRESENTING ADAM (JEU D'ADAM)

MANKIND

EVERYMAN

SIR THOMAS MALORY from Morte Darthur from Merlin The Death of King Arthur or The Most Piteous Tale of the Morte Arthur Saunz Guerdon Slander and Strife The Vengeance of Sir Gawain The Siege of Benwick The Day of Destiny The Dolorous Death and Departing out of this World of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere In Context: Early Editions of Morte Darthur Caxton’s Preface Illustrating Morte Darthur

APPENDICES

Reading Poetry

Maps

Monarchs and Prime Ministers of Great Britain

Glossary of Terms

Texts and Contexts: A Chronological Chart

Bibliography

Permissions Acknowledgments

Index of First Lines

Index of Authors and Titles