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  1. Anthologies of Middle English Literature
  2. Surveys and Histories of Middle English Literature
  3. Surveys of the History of the Period
  4. Guides and Companions to English Literature
  5. Journals, Periodicals, and Series
  6. Dictionaries
  7. Bibliographies
  8. Internet Sites (click on the items)

1. Anthologies of Middle English Literature:

  • Bennett, J. A. W. and G. V. Smithers (Eds.). Early Middle English Verse and Prose. 2nd ed. London 1968.
  • Bergner, Heinz (Ed.) Die englische Literatur in Text und Darstellung: Bd. 1 Mittelalter. Stuttgart 1986.
  • Burrow, John A. (Ed.). English Verse 1300 to 1500. London 1977.
  • Burrow, John A. and Thorlac Turville-Petre. A Book of Middle English. 2nd ed., Oxford 1996.
  • Davies, R. T. (Ed.). Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology. London 1963.
  • Gray, Douglas (Ed.). The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse & Prose. Oxford 1985.
  • Kaiser, Rolf (Ed.). Medieval English: An Old and Middle English Anthology. Berlin 1961.
  • Mossé, Fernand. A Handbook of Middle English, transl. by James A. Walker. Baltimore 1952.
  • Pearsall, Derek (Ed.). Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in Middle English 1375-1575. Oxford 1999.
  • Sisam, Celia and Kenneth (Eds.). The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse. Oxford 1970.
  • Sisam, Kenneth (Ed.). Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose. Oxford 1921.
  • Trapp, J. B. (Ed.). Medieval English Literature. Oxford 1973.
  • Treharne, Elaine (Ed.). Old and Middle English: An Anthology. Oxford 1999.
  • Walker, Greg (Ed.). Medieval Drama: An Anthology. Oxford 2000.

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2. Surveys and Histories of Middle English Literature:

  • Baugh, Albert C. (Ed.). A Literary History of England: The Middle Ages. 2nd ed., London 1967.
  • Bennett, J. A. W. Middle English Literature 1100-1400, ed. and compl. by Douglas Gray. Oxford 1986. [OHEL I].
  • Bennett, H. S. Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Verse and Prose. Oxford 1947. [OHEL II].
  • Burrow, John A. Medieval Writers and Their Work: Middle English Literature and its Background 1100-1500. Oxford 1982.
  • Chambers, E. K. Malory and Fifteenth-Century Drama, Lyrics, and Ballads. Oxford 1945. [OHEL III].
  • Ford, Boris (Ed.). The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. I: The Age of Chaucer. Harmondsworth 1954.
  • Kohl, Stephan. "Mittelenglische Literatur," in: Englische Literaturgeschichte, hg. v. Hans Ulrich Seeber. Stuttgart 1991:19-42.
  • Pearsall, Derek. Old and Middle English Poetry. London 1977.
  • Renwick, William L. and Harold Orton. The Beginnings of English Literature to Skelton 1509. 3rd ed.,London 1966.
  • Sanders, Andrew. The Short History of English Literature. Oxford 1994:28-82.
  • Severs, J. Burke and Albert E. Hartung (Eds.). A Manual of Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500. New Haven 1967ff.
  • Wilson, R. M. Early Middle English Literature. London 1939.
  • Wilson R. M. The Lost Literature of Medieval England. 2nd ed., London 1972.

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3. Surveys of the History of the Period:

  • Barlow, Frank. The Feudal Kindom of England 1042-1216. London 1972.
  • Bishop, Morris. The Pelican Book of the Middle Ages. Harmondsworth 1971.
  • Douglas, D. C. and G. W. Greenway (Eds.). English Historical Documents 1042-1189. London 1968. [EHD II].
  • Falkus, Malcolm and John Gillingham (Eds.). Historical Atlas of Britain. London 1981.
  • Hallam, Elizabeth (Ed.). The Plantagenet Chronicles. London 1986.
  • Hallam, Elizabeth (Ed.). Chronicles of the Age of Chivalry. London 1987.
  • Hallam, Elizabeth (Ed.). The Chronicles of the Wars of the Roses. London 1988.
  • Hallam, Elizabeth (Ed.). The Plantagenet Encyclopedia: An Alphabetical Guide to 400 Years of English History. London 1990.
  • Jacob, E. F. The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485. Oxford 1961. [OHE V]
  • Lexikon des Mittelalters. München/Zürich 1980ff. [Eintrag s.v. 'England']
  • Matthew, Donald. Atlas of Medieval Europe. London 1983.
  • McKisack, May. The Fourteenth Century 1307-1399. Oxford 1959. [OHE V].
  • Myers, Alec R. (Ed.). English Historical Documents 1327-1485. London 1969. [EHD III].
  • Myers, Alec R. England in the Late Middle Ages. Harmondsworth 1971.
  • Niedhart, Gottfried (Ed.). Einführung in die englische Geschichte. München 1982.
  • Poole, Austin Lane. From Domesday Book to Magna Carta 1087-1216. 2nd ed., Oxford 1955. [OHE III].
  • Powicke, Maurice. The Thirteenth Century 1216-1307. 2nd ed., Oxford1962. [OHE IV].
  • Rothwell, Harry. (Ed.). English Historical Documents 1189-1327. London 1975. [EHD III].
  • Stenton, Doris Mary. English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307. Harmondsworth 1965.
  • Wilkinson, B. The Later Middle Ages in England 1216-1485. London1969.

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4. Guides and Companions to English Literature:

  • The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, ed. by Ian Ousby. Cambridge 1988.
  • The Cambridge Guide to English Literature, ed. by Michael Stapleton. Cambridge 1983.
  • The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 5th edition, ed. by Margaret Drabble. Oxford 1985.
  • The Oxford Companion to the English Language, ed. by Tom McArthur. Oxford 1992.
  • The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. by Alex Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. Princeton 1993.

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5. Journals, Periodicals, and Series:

  • ChauR-Chaucer Review (muse.jhu.edu/journals/cr/)
  • DAI-Dissertation Abstracts International
  • EETS-The Early English Text Society
  • ELH-Journal of English Literary History
  • ELN-English Language Note
  • ES-English Studies
  • Exem-Exemplaria
  • FCS-Fifteenth-Century Studies
  • JEGP-Journal of English and Germanic Philology
  • JMRS- Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
  • M&H-Medievalia et Humanistica
  • MAE-Medium Ævum
  • MLN-Modern Language Notes
  • MLR-Modern Language Review
  • MP-Modern Philology
  • MS-Medieval Studies
  • N&Q-Notes and Queries
  • Neophil-Neophilologus
  • NM-Neuphilologische Mitteilungen
  • PMLA-Publications of the Modern Language Association
  • PQ-Philological Quarterly
  • SAC-Studies in the Age of Chaucer (ncs.rutgers.edu/sac.html)
  • SP-Studies in Philology
  • Spec-Speculum

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6. Dictionaries.

  • Davies, Norman et al. A Chaucer Glossary. Oxford 1979.
  • MED-Middle English Dictionary, ed. by Hans Kurath and Sherman F. Kuhn. Ann Arbor, Mich. 1952ff.
    (www.hti.umich.edu/dict/med/index.html online via ULB or RZ)
  • OED-The Oxford English Dictionary. 20 Vols., 2nd ed., Oxford 1989
    (available on CD-ROM in the FB-Anglistik
    dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl online via ULB or RZ).
  • Stratmann, F. H. A. A Middle English Dictionary, new ed. by H. Bradley, Oxford 1891.

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7. Bibliographies:

  • ABEL-The Annual Bibliography to English Language and Literature. Cambridge 1921ff.
  • MLA-Modern Language Association Bibliography. New York 1963ff.
    (available online on the NRW-Server)
  • NCBEL-The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, ed. by George Watson. Cambridge 1969 ff.
  • SAC-Studies in the Age of Chaucer
  • YWES-The Year's Work in English Studies. Oxford 1919ff.
  • Renwick William L. and Harold Orton. The Beginnings of English Literature to Skelton 1509. 3rd ed., London 1966.
  • Severs, J. Burke and Albert E. Hartung (Eds.). A Manual of Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500. New Haven 1967ff. (based on: Wells, John Edwin (Ed.). A Manual of Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500. New Haven 1916, and supplements 1-9, 1919-1951.).

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8. Internet Sites

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