The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1: The Medieval Period 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

GILDAS

from The Ruin of Britain

PSEUDO-NENNIUS from The History of the Britons

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)

THE LIFE OF SAINT MARGARET

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 In Context: The Thorn and the Yogh

JOHN GOWER from Confessio Amantis from Book 5
In Context: from Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women The Legend of Hypsipyle and Medea The Legend of Medea from Confessio Amantis Prologue from Book 1
from Book 8
In Context: John Gower from Ovid, The Art of Love and Cures for Love from Saint Augustine, The Confessions from Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy from Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose from Ovid, Metamorphoses from William Langland, Piers Plowman from The Harley Lyrics from John Gower, Vox Clamantis from John Gower, Latin Poetry from John Gower, French Ballads

WILLIAM LANGLAND from Piers Plowman Prologue (B)
Passus 18
from Piers Plowman from Passus 5
Passus 7

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 To Rosemounde Parliament of Fowles

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 Clerk'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

Pilgrimage

from The Testimony of William Thorpe

The World of Chivalry

from Ramon Lull, The Book of the Order of Chivalry

from Chapter 2 [On Chivalry]

from Chapter 3 [Knighthood]

Orders of Society

from John Gower, Vox Clamatis

Pardoners and Indulgences

A Model Indulgence

An Exemplum

from The Remedy Against the Troubles of Temptation from Giovanni Boccaccio, Teseide

from Book 3 [Emilia Appears to Palaemon and Arcite]

"As Fressh as is the Monthe of May": Illustrations from Illuminated Manuscripts

Poems

To His Scribe Adam Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse Lenvoy de Chaucer from Troilus and Criseyde

Troilus’s Song

THOMAS HOCCLEVE Ballad on the Re-Burial of King Richard II from The Series
"My Complaint"
La Male Regle Ballad for Master H. Somer Another Poem About the Blessed Virgin The Letter of Cupid

THE TRAVELS OF SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE

from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Prologue Chapter 7
Chapter 15
Chapter 20
Chapter 29

WYNNERE AND WASTOURE

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 SERVICE FOR REPRESENTING ADAM (JEU D'ADAM)

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 YORK CRUCIFIXION

THE YORK LAST JUDGMENT In Context: The York Plays The Mercers' Indenture

THE TOWNELEY LAST JUDGMENT

MANKIND

EVERYMAN

THE N-TOWN MARY PLAY

HENRY MEDWALL Fulgens and Lucres

JOHN LYDGATE
"The Churl and the Bird"
"The Siege of Thebes"
"A Disguising at Hertford Castle"
"On the Image of Pity"
"The Child Jesus to Mary, the Rose"

SIR LAUNFAL

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

THE SCOTS MAKARS from James I, Kingis Quair from Richard Holland, Buke of the Howlatt Robert Henryson, "The Cock and the Jasp"
William Dunbar, "Timor Mortis Conturbat Me"
from Gavin Douglas, Palis of Honoure

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