Medieval Studies Reading List (UConn)

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UCONN Medieval Studies

M.A. Exam Reading List(revised draft)

Interdisciplinary Studies

Brown, Peter. The Body and Society. Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early

Christianity (1988)

Bynum, Caroline Walker.Holy Feast and Holy Fast. The Religious Significance of Food to

Medieval Women (1987) + Watson, "Desire for the Past" (article on the reception of

Bynum's Book) Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21 (1999): 59-97.

Carruthers, Mary. The Book of Memory. A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture (1990)

Curtius, Ernst Robert.European Literature and Latin Middle Ages. + Landauer, Carl. "ErnstRobert Curtius and the Topos of the Literary Critic" inMedievalism and the Modernist Temper(1996)

Duffy, Eamon. The Stripping of the Altars. Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 (1992)

Mantello and Rigg,Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide (1996).

Fine Arts

Art History:Michael Camille, "Labouring for the Lord: The Ploughman and the Social Order in the

Luttrell Psalter."Art History (December 1987), 10(4):423-454.

James S. Ackerman, " 'Ars Sine Scientia Nihil Est' Gothic Theory of Architecture at the

Cathedral of Milan," The Art Bulletin, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Jun., 1949), pp. 84-111

Music:

Craig Wright, The Maze and the Warrior: Symbols in Architecture, Theology and Music.

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001, paperback edition, 2004.

Margot E. Fassler, Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in

Twelfth-Century Paris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

History

Bloch, Marc. The Historians Craft(completed c. 1942, 1st

English edition 1953)


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Boswell, John. The Kindness of Strangers. The Abandonment of Children in Western Europefrom Late Antiquity to the Renaissance (1988)

Clanchy, Michael. From Memory to Written Record. England 1066-1307(2nd

ed.) (1993)

Cohen, Mark R. Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (1994).

Cohn, Samuel K., Jr. The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death. Six Renaissance Cities inCentral Italy (1992)

Gregory, Timothy.A History of Byzantium (2005)

Kennedy, Hugh. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the

Sixth to the Eleventh Century (1988).

Lawrence, C.H.Medieval Monasticism. Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the

Middle Ages (3rd

ed.) (2001)

Marshall, Richard K. The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval

Economy (1999)

Raftis, J.A. Tenure and Mobility. Studies in the Social History of the Mediaeval English Village

(1964)

Schmitt, Jean-Claude. The Holy Greyhound: Guinefort, Healer of Children since the ThirteenthCentury. Trans. Martin Thom (1983)

Southern, Richard. The Making of the Middle Ages (1953; rprtd 1992)

Languages

English

Primary Texts:

Beowulf(Liuzza translation) + Lapidge, Michael. "Beowulfand the Psychology

of Terror."

Saints' lives:Judith,Elene,Andreas

Alfred's "Preface to the Pastoral Care"

Lyrics: "Dream of the Rood," "The Wanderer," "The Seafarer," "The Ruin," and

"The Wife's Lament"

Ancrene Wisse andHali Meihad + Millett, Bella. "Ancrene Wisse and the Book

of Hours.'' Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in


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Late Medieval England. Ed. Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead.University of Wales Press, 2000. 21-40.

Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

Langland, Piers Plowman (B-Text)

Pearl.

Kempe,Book of Margery Kempe

Gower, Confessio Amantis (Prologue, Books 1, 3, and 8)

Malory, Works (ed. Vinaver)

Lydgate, Troy Book(TEAMS)

Drama: York Crucifixion, 2nd Shepherd's Play, Cain and Abel, Mankind

Secondary:

Burrow, J.A. Ricardian Poetry (1971)

Simpson, James. Piers Plowman:An Introduction to the B-Text. 2nd ed. (2007). +

two scholarly reviews of the first edition.

Steiner, Emily.Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval EnglishLiterature (2003)

Wallace, David, ed. The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature.Cambridge: Cambridge UP (1999)

Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, et al. The Idea of the Vernacular(1999)

French

Primary Texts:

The Song of Roland

The Complete Romances of Chrtien de Troyes

The Romance of the Rose

Secondary

Bloch, Howard. (D. Hollier ed.), A New History of French Literature, Harvard


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UP, pp. 1-132. + Kay, Sarah, T. Cave, and M. Bowie, A Short History of French

Literature, Oxford UP, pp. 13-95.

Le Goff, Jacques. The Medieval Imagination, UP Chicago.

Zumthor, Paul. Toward a Medieval Poetics, UP Minnesota.

Busby, Keith. Codex and Context, Rodopi.

Italian

Dante,Divine Comedy.

Auerbach, Erich.Dante: Poet of the Secular World(1961)

Spanish

Primary Texts:

El Poema de Mio Cid (Poem of the Cid)

El Libro de buen amor (Book of Good Love)

Secondary:

Fletcher, Richard. The Quest for El Cid(1990).

Philosophy/Theology

Gilson, Etienne.Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages (1938)

Knowles, David. The Evolution of Medieval Thought(1962)

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