Broadview Anthology of British Literature

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INTRODUCTION TO THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
34
     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
    
 
BEDE
15
       from Ecclesiastical History of the English People
       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
7
       The Wanderer
       The Seafarer
       The Wife's Lament
       The Ruin
    
 
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
4
    
 
THE COTTON MAXIMS
2
    
 
EXETER BOOK RIDDLES
3
       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
4
       The Old English Bee Charm
       Against a Dwarf
       For a Sudden Stitch
       The Nine Herbs Charm
    
 
BEOWULF
49
       In Context
         Glossary of Proper Names
   Genealogies
   The Geatish-Swedish Wars
    
 
JUDITH
10
    
 
THE BATTLE OF MALDON
6
    
 
EXODUS
9
    
 
THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE
9
        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
4
       "Preface" to the Old English Version of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care
    
 
ÆLFRIC OF EYNSHAM
4
       The Passion of Saint Edmund, King and Martyr
    
 
WULFSTAN
5
       Sermo Lupi ad Anglos
    
 
BLICKLING HOMILIES
3
        Homily 10
    
 
GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH
23
       from A History of the Kings of Britain
    
 
MARIE DE FRANCE
30
       Bisclavret (The Werewolf)
       Lanval
       Laüstic (The Nightingale)
       Chevrefoil (The Honeysuckle)
    
 
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS
12
       Sumer is icumen in
       Now goth sonne under wod
       Foweles in the frith
       Betwene Mersh and Averil
       Now skrinketh 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 bothe 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
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       The Great Famine
         from Anonymous (the "Monk of Malmsebury"), 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
         from Henry Knighton, Chronicle
    
 
SIR ORFEO
10
    
 
THE MABINOGI
12
       Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed
    
 
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
70
       In Context
         from Fled Bricrend/Bricriu's Feast
         Illustrations from the Original Manuscript
    
 
CONTEXTS: LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN MEDIEVAL BRITAIN
18
       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
       Royal Couples
       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 (early 12th century)
       from Letter of Anselm to fellow monks (late 11th century)
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
  
from The Owl and the Nightingale
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER
4
  
To Rosemound
15
       Parliament of Fowles
  
from The Canterbury Tales
19
         The General Prologue
  
  The Knight's Tale
34
  
  The Miller's Prologue and Tale
13
           The Prologue
    The Tale
  
  The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
22
           The Prologue
    The Tale
  
  The Merchant's Prologue and Tale
20
           The Prologue
    The Tale
  
  The Franklin's Prologue and Tale
17
           The Prologue
    The Tale
  
  The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
13
           The Introduction
    The Prologue
    The Tale
  
  The Prioress's Prologue and Tale
7
           The Prologue
    The Tale
  
  The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale
14
           The Prologue
    The Tale
  
  Chaucer's Retraction
2
  
In Context: Backgrounds to The Canterbury Tales
22
         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
2
         To His Scribe Adam
         Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse
         from Troilus and Criseyde
           Troilus's Song
    
 
"SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE"
19
       from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
         Prologue
         Chapter 7
         Chapter 15
         Chapter 20
         Chapter 29
    
 
JULIAN OF NORWICH
18
       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
7
       from The Book of Margery Kempe
         The Proem
         The Preface
         Book 1
           Chapter 1
           Chapter 2
           Chapter 3
  
Chapters 4, 11, 50, 51, 52
8
       Chapter 4
       Chapter 11
       Chapter 50
       Chapter 51
       Chapter 52
  
Chapters 53, 54, 55, 86, from Book 2, Chapter 10
10
       Chapter 53
       Chapter 54
       Chapter 55
       Chapter 86
       from Book 2
         Chapter 10
    
 
CONTEXTS: RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL LIFE
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       Celtic Christianity
       Church and Cathedral
       Religion for All
         The Apostles' 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 (1215)
       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 (1194)
  from the Charter of King John to the Jews (1201)
  from the Ordinances of Henry III (1253)
  Edward I's Order (1290)
    
 
QUEM QUAERITIS
2
       The Quem Quaeritis Ceremony
    from Regularis Concordia of St. Æthelwold 
    
 
THE SERVICE FOR REPRESENTING ADAM (JEU D'ADAM)
18
    
 
NOAH'S FLOOD (CHESTER)
12
       The Third Pageant of Noah's Flood
    In Context
      Biblical Source Material
      from Douay-Rheims Bible, Genesis 6-9
        Chapter 6
        Chapter 7
        Chapter 8
        Chapter 9
    
 
THE WAKEFIELD MASTER
2
  
  The Second Shepherds' Play
16
           In Context
      Biblical Source Material
        from Douay-Rheims Bible, Luke 2.8-21
  
  Herod the Great
11
           In Context
      Biblical Source Material
        from Douay-Rheims Bible, Matthew 2
    
 
MANKIND
20
    
 
EVERYMAN
14
    
 
SIR THOMAS MALORY
46
       from Morte Darthur
       from Merlin
       The Death of King Arthur
         Slander and Strife
         The Vengeance of Sir Gawain
         The Siege of Benwick
         The Day of Destiny
         The Dolorous Death of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere
         In Context
           Caxton's Preface
    Illustrating Morte Darthur
    
 
JOHN GOWER
17
       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*
95
           Prologue
    from Book 1
    from Book 5
    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 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women
      The Legend of Hypsipyle and Medea
      The Legend of Medea
    from John Gower, French Ballads
*Please note that this selection contains the material from the bound book as well as additional material. If you choose this expanded selection, please do not also choose the first Gower selection.
    
 
READING POETRY
20
    
 
MAPS
4
    
 
MONARCHS AND PRIME MINISTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN
5
    
 
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
23
    
    Ricardo McCue


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