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Texts
[Texts can be purchased at the
Tech
Bookstore / 118 S. Main St.
/ 552-6444]
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Required:
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Geoffrey Chaucer. Troilus
& Criseyde. Michigan State University Press,
2000. ISBN: 0870135368 (other
editions are fine if you already have one, but clear them
with me first)
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Required:
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John Lydgate. Troy
Book: Selections.
Ed. Robert R. Edwards. Medieval Institute Publications,
1998. ISBN: 1879288990
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Secondary readings (online or on
Reserve):
Christopher Braswell, "Troy Book:
How Lydgate Translates Chaucer into Latin." Pp. 215-237 in
Translation Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages. Ed.
Jeanette Beer (1997). Reserve
Carolyn Dinshaw, "Reading Like a Man: The
Critics, the Narrator, Troilus, and Pandarus." Pp. 47-73 in R. A.
Shoaf, ed., Troilus & Criseyde: "Subgit to alle
Poesye" (1992; originally published in Chaucer's Sexual
Poetics (1989). Reserve
Rober W.
Hanning, "Come in Out of the Code:
Interpreting the Discourse of Desire. in boccaccio's
Filostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde." Pp.
120-137 in R. A. Shoaf, ed., Troilus & Criseyde: "Subgit to
alle Poesye" (1992; originally published in Chaucer's
Sexual Poetics (1989). Reserve
Seth Lerer, "Writing Like the Clerk:
Laureate Poets and the Aureate World." Chapter 1 in Chaucer and
His Readers: Imagining the Author in Late-Medieval England
(1993). Reserve
Rosemarie P. McGerr, "Meaning and Ending in
a 'Paynted Proces': Resistance to Closure in Troilus and
Criseyde." Pp. 179-198 in R. A. Shoaf, ed., Troilus &
Criseyde: "Subgit to alle Poesye" (1992; originally published
in Chaucer's Sexual Poetics (1989). Reserve
Scot McKendrick, "The Great History of
Troy: A Reassessment of the Development of a Secular Theme in
Late Medieval Art." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld
Institutes 54 (1991): 43-82. Reserve
Lee Patterson, "Troilus and Crisedye
and the Subject of History." Chapter 2 in Chaucer and the
Subject of History (1991), Reserve
Derek Pearsall, "Chaucer and Lydgate."
Chapter 3 in Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek
Brewer. Ed. Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt (1990).
Reserve
R. A. Shoaf, Troilus & Criseyde:
"Subgit to alle Poesye" Essays in Criticism (1992).
Reserve
McKay Sundwell, "The Destruction of
Troy, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and Lydgate's
Troy Book. Review of English Studies 26 (1975):
313-317. Reserve
Nicholas Watson, "Outdoing Chaucer:
Lydate's Troy Book and Henrysson's Testament of
Crisseid as Competitive Imitations of Troilus and
Criseyde." Pp. 89-108 in Shifts and Transpositions in
Medieval Narrative: A Festschrift for Dr. Elspeth Kennedy.
Ed. Karen Pratt (1994). Reserve
Opening of Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight
(translation)
Robert Henryson, Testament
of Cresseid
(TEAMS
text, available online)
Norton Topics Online: Geoffrey of
Monmouth, from The History of the Kings of Britain,
"Brutus"
Web Links
- Stephen R. Reimer's
The
Canon of John Lydate
- The
Brut Chronicle
MS 225 at the University of Michigan
- The
Chaucer Metapage
- Chaucer
site at Harvard
(contains info on Chaucer's life, language, science, etc.)
- Mosser, The
Evolution of Present-Day English
- Andreas Cappellanus, Rules of
Courtly
Love
- Boethius, Consolation
of Philosophy
pp. 48-55
(Fame and Fortune); pp. 126-139 (Fate & Providence); Book 5
(pp. 140-end: Chance, Free Will, Destiny, Eternity)
- WWW
Medieval Resources
- A
Basic Chaucer Glossary
- Glossarial
Database of Middle English
(Harvard)
- A tool to
investigate the contextualized uses and meanings of words in
Chaucer, Gower, and others. To use:
- Type a
word in the box at top left. Then click SEARCH DICTIONARY.
The search engine will take a few seconds, come back with
your word and offer to add it to the list. Click
YES.
- At the
bottom left choose a text or texts.
- At top
right you should see the target and the text displayed.
Click SEARCH (top right).
- The Middle English Compendium
(Middle English Dictionary, HyperBibliography of ME Prose and
Verse, and and extensive collection of ME prose and verse texts).
Virginia Tech access only: click here
to access the Library's "M" database index page and scroll down
the the Middle English Compendium.
- Oxford English
Dictionary, online
(internal--VIVA--users only)
- Hypertext Webster's
Dictionary
- Search
Tools (including citation
and formatting guides for research papers)
- Virginia
Tech Library Catalogues
- MLA
Bibliography (available
on the "M" page of the Library's databases)
- International
Medieval Bibliography (VIVA
resource, via the Virginia Tech Library online databases:
scroll down to locate the
resource)
- Online
Chaucer Bibliographies
- The
SAC Online Chaucer Bibiography
- The
Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, originally published in
Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
- The Catholic
Encyclopedia
- Douay-Rheims English Translation of the
Latin Vulgate
Bible
- Patristics site where you can find the
text of Jerome
adversus Jovinian in
translation
- Engelonde:
Resources for 14th-Century Studies
- Tutorial
for honing your Web search skills
- Internet
Citation Guide
- Troilus & Criseyde, selected
quotations
Other
Muscatine, Charles. The book
of Geoffrey Chaucer: an account of the publication of
Geoffrey Chaucer's works from the fifteenth century to modern
times. [San Francisco]: Book Club of California, 1963.
[PR1939 M8 1963 SPEC/FOLIO]
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Allegory and
the 'Fourfold Method'
Beyond the literal meaning of the text, medieval methods of reading
detected three levels of meaning that "could refer to any (or all) of
the three aspects of Christian truth. Hence arises the idea of
'fourfold allegory.' The literal meaning is often called the
'historical,' and may express the entire content of a text, as in the
works of historians. Ulterior aspects of meaning were labeled
allegorical, tropological (or moral), and anagogical. Allegorical
meanings…referred to the mission of the Church on earth;
tropological meanings referred to the moral duties and struggles of
human nature; while anagogical meanings concerned mysteries of faith,
such as the afterlife or the operation of Grace, known only through
revelation" (Chaucer: Sources and Backgrounds , p.
42).
Dante provides us with an example in his
"Letter to Can Grande": "'When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of
Jacob from a barbarous people, Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel
his dominion.' Now if we look at the letter alone, what is signified
to us is the departure of the sons of Israel from Egypt during the
time of Moses; if at the allegory, what is signified to us is our
redemption through Christ; if at the moral sense, what is signified
to us is the conversion of the soul from the sorrow and misery of sin
to the state of grace; if at the anagogical, what is signified to us
is the departure of the sanctified soul from bondage to the
corruption of this world into the freedom of eternal glory."
(Chaucer: Sources and Backgrounds, p. 81).
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