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Medieval

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540s

On the Ruin of Britain

Gildas

c.731

Caedmon's Hymn + Ecclesiastical History (Books 1,2,4)

Bede / Caedmon

890s

Life of King Alfred + Preface to Pastoral Care

Asser / Alfred

937/991

The Battle of Brunanburh + The Battle of Maldon

Anon.

MS c.1000

Beowulf

Anon.

MS 950-1050

The Dream of the Rood / Genesis A / Judith

Anon.

c.990-1002

Elene + Life of Edmund + Life of Eugenia

Cynewulf / Aelfric

MS 940

The Exeter Book (selected riddles & elegies)

Anon.

MS 1000s

The Tain-Bo-Cuailgne

Anon.

1010-1016

Sermon to the English

Wulfstan

c.1125

Song of Roland

Anon.

1136

History of the Kings of Britain

Geoffrey of Monmouth

1190s

Journey through Wales / Description of Wales

Gerald of Wales

1150-1200

The Brut

Layamon

c.1155-1170

Lais

Marie de France

c. mid-12th c.

The Life of Christina of Markyate

Anon.

c.1230

Ancrene Wisse

Anon.

c.1210

Poetria Nova

Geoffrey of Vinsauf

c.1240

Egils saga Skallagrimssonar

Anon.

c.1225-1300s

Havelok the Dane / King Horn / Sir Orfeo

Anon.

c.1200-1350

The Owl and the Nightingale / Winner and Waster

Anon.

1370s-80s

Dream Visions (Book of the Duchess, Parliament, House of Fame)

Geoffrey Chaucer

1380s

Troilus and Criseyde

Geoffrey Chaucer

1387-1400

Canterbury Tales (selections)

Geoffrey Chaucer

late 14th c.

Cleanness and Patience

Anon.

c.1300-49

Meditations on the Passion

Richard Rolle

1390s

Confessio Amantis (selections)

John Gower

c.1393

Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love (Short Text)

Julian of Norwich

c. late 14th c.

Piers Plowman (selections)

William Langland

various

Lollard writings (Hudson ed.)

Various

various

Selected Middle English Lyrics (Luria & Hoffman ed.)

Various

MS 1375-1425

The Mabinogion

Anon.

c.1400

The Alliterative Morte Arthure

Anon.

c.1385

Pearl

Anon.

c.1375

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Sir John Mandeville

c.1385

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Anon.

c.1405-25

The Castle of Perseverance

Anon.

c.1375-1570s

Corpus Christi Plays (York, Chester, Wakefield, etc.)

Various

before 1505

The Testament of Cresseid + The Taill of the Wolf

Robert Henryson

1406-1422

La Male Regle / Complaint / Dialog

Thomas Hoccleve

c.1436

The Book of Margery Kempe

Margery Kempe

c.1400-10

Complaynt of a Lovers Lyfe / Temple of Glas

John Lydgate

1485

Le Morte d'Arthur (selections)

Thomas Malory

c.1460-1525

Everyman / Mankind / Wisdom (Morality Plays)

Anon.

c.1475-1500

Digby Mary Magdalene / Croxton Play of the Sacrament

Anon.

1407

Testimony

William Thorpe

1422-1509

The Paston Letters

Various

1405

The Book of the City of Ladies

Christine de Pisan

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