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Relevant Call Numbers

If you enjoy browsing the shelves, many books on the Middle Ages fall within the following call number ranges (on the Third Floor of the library):

PE 101-458 Anglo-Saxon. Old English language

PE 501-693 Middle English language

PR 171-236 History of English literature in the Anglo-Saxon period (Beginnings through 1066)

PR 251-369 History of English literature in the Medieval period (Middle English) (1066-1500)

PR 1490-1799 English literature written during the Anglo-Saxon period

PR 1803-2165 English literature written during the Anglo-Norman period. (Early and Middle English)

Recommended Titles

Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages by E. Johnson
Call Number: PR275.E77 J64 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Reveals that aesthetics are inextricable from ethics in the writing of medieval literature. Demonstrates the underlying prosimetric structures in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and portions of the Canterbury Tales.
A History of Old English Literature by R. Fulk (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013
Provides wide-ranging coverage, including Anglo-Latin literature as well as non-canonical writings, manuscripts, and legal and scientific texts.
On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems by J. Hill
Call Number: PR203 .O5 2010, Third Level
Publication Date: 2010
Contains essays on rhetoric, wordplay, meter, structure, irony, form, psychology, ethos and reader response. Aims to find objective aesthetic qualities in Anglo-Saxon poetry.
A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature by M. Corrie (Editor)
Call Number: PR260 .C665 2009, Third Level
Publication Date: 2009
Discusses the religious and historical background to Middle English literature, the circumstances and milieu in which it was produced, its linguistic features and the manuscripts in which it has been preserved.
Later Medieval English Literature by D. Gray
Call Number: PR291 .G73 2008, Third Level
Publication Date: 2008
Provides an illuminating account of the literature written in English from Chaucer's death to the early sixteenth century. Includes a chronology, an introductory survey, and detailed sections on prose, poetry and drama.
Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England by Cynthia Turner Camp
ISBN: 9781843844020
Publication Date: 2015-04-16
This book demonstrates how writers, illuminators, and policy-makers used English saints (including St Edmund) to re-envision the bonds between ancient spiritual purity and contemporary conditions.
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature by Malcolm R. Godden (Editor); Michael Lapidge (Editor)
Call Number: PR173 .C36 1991; ARC Storage
ISBN: 0521377943
Publication Date: 1991-05-31
The Companion introduces students to the literature of Anglo-Saxon England, the period from 600-1066. This book is aimed at students encountering Old English literature for the first time, who require clear guidance and orientation in an unfamiliar field.