The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1A: The Middle Ages

by Damrosch, David; Baswell, Christopher; Schotter, Anne Howland

• ISBN13: 9780321333919
• ISBN10: 0321333918
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

"Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1A The Middle Ages,3/E" is a comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged anthology that offers a rich selection of major British authors throughout the Middle Ages. The highlight of Volume 1A is the highly praised verse translation of Beowulf by Tim Murphy. The book also includes Perspectives, Companion Readings, and "and Its Time" sections which show how major literary writings interrelate with and respond to various social, historical, and cultural events of Great Britain in the Middle Ages. For those interested in British Literature of the Middle Ages.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xiii
Additional Audio and Online Resources	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Political and Religious Orders	p. xxix
Money, Weights, and Measures	p. xxxv
Bibliography	p. xxxvii
Credits	p. xlix
The Middle Ages	p. 3
Before the Norman Conquest	p. 27
Beowulf	p. 27
Response
from Grendel	p. 93
Early Irish Narrative	p. 96
The Labour Pains of the Ulaid	p. 97
The Birth of Cu Chulainn	p. 98
The Naming of Cu Chulainn	p. 99
Early Irish Verse	p. 100
To Crinog	p. 101
Pangur the Cat	p. 102
Writing in the Wood	p. 103
The Viking Terror	p. 103
The Old Woman of Beare	p. 104
Findabair Remembers Froech	p. 107
A Grave Marked with Ogam	p. 107
from The Voyage of Mael Duin	p. 108
Judith	p. 109
The Dream of the Rood	p. 115
Perspectives: Ethnic and Religious Encounters	p. 120
Bede	p. 121
from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People	p. 122
Bishop Asser	p. 127
from The Life of King Alfred	p. 127
King Alfred	p. 129
Preface to Saint Gregory's Pastoral Care	p. 129
Ohthere's Journeys	p. 131
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle	p. 134
Stamford Bridge and Hastings	p. 134
Taliesin	p. 135
Urien Yrechwydd	p. 136
The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain	p. 137
The War-Band's Return	p. 137
Lament for Owain Son of Urien	p. 139
The Tale of Taliesin	p. 139
The Wanderer	p. 153
Wulf and Eadwacer and the Wife's Lament	p. 156
Riddles	p. 158
Three Anglo-Latin Riddles by Aldhelm	p. 159
Five Old English Riddles	p. 160
After the Norman Conquest	p. 163
Perspectives: Arthurian Myth in the History of Britain	p. 163
Geoffrey of Monmouth	p. 164
from History of the Kings of Britain	p. 165
Gerald of Wales	p. 175
from The Instruction of Princes	p. 176
Edward I	p. 177
Letter sent to the Papal Court of Rome	p. 178
Response
A Report to Edward I	p. 179
Arthurian Romance	p. 181
Marie De France	p. 181
Lais	p. 182
Prologue	p. 182
Lanval	p. 184
Chevrefoil (The Honeysuckle)	p. 198
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	p. 200
Sir Thomas Malory	p. 259
Morte Darthur	p. 260
from Caxton's Prologue	p. 260
The Miracle of Galahad	p. 262
The Poisoned Apple	p. 270
The Day of Destiny	p. 279
Responses
from The Mists of Avalon	p. 289
scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail	p. 291
Geoffrey Chaucer	p. 293
The Parliament of Fowls	p. 298
The Canterbury Tales	p. 316
The General Prologue (Middle English and modern translation)	p. 318
The Miller's Tale	p. 358
The Introduction	p. 358
The Tale	p. 360
The Wife of Bath's Prologue	p. 375
The Wife of Bath's Tale	p. 394
Response
from The Treatise of the Two Married Women and the Widow	p. 403
The Franklin's Tale	p. 407
The Prologue	p. 407
The Tale	p. 408
The Pardoner's Prologue	p. 427
The Pardoner's Tale	p. 432
The Nun's Priest's Tale	p. 444
The Parson's Tale	p. 460
The Introduction	p. 460
[The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery]	p. 462
Chaucer's Retraction	p. 464
To His Scribe Adam	p. 465
Complaint to His Purse	p. 466
William Langland	p. 466
Piers Plowman	p. 469
Prologue	p. 469
Passus 2	p. 471
from Passus 6	p. 473
Passus 8	p. 475
Passus 20	p. 484
"Piers Plowman" and Its Time: The Rising of 1381	p. 495
from The Anonimalle Chronicle [Wat Tyler's Demands to Richard II, and His Death]	p. 497
Three Poems on the Rising of 1381: John Ball's First Letter	p. 502
John Ball's Second Letter	p. 503
The Course of Revolt	p. 503
from The Voice of One Crying	p. 505
Mystical Writings	p. 508
Julian of Norwich	p. 509
A Book of Showings	p. 510
[Three Graces. Illness. The First Revelation]	p. 510
[Laughing at the Devil]	p. 514
[Christ Draws Julian in through His Wound]	p. 515
[The Necessity of Sin, and of Hating Sin]	p. 517
[God as Father, Mother, Husband]	p. 518
[The Soul as Christ's Citadel]	p. 523
[The Meaning of the Visions Is Love]	p. 524
Companion Readings
from The Fire of Love	p. 526
from The Cloud of Unknowing	p. 527
Response
The Dream of Washing Quilts	p. 529
Medieval Biblical Drama	p. 531
The Second Play of the Shepherds	p. 532
The York Play of the Crucifixion	p. 551
Vernacular Religion	p. 559
The Wycliffite Bible	p. 562
John 10.11-18	p. 562
from A Wycliffite Sermon on John 10.11-18	p. 562
John Mirk	p. 564
from Festial	p. 564
Preaching and Teaching in the Vernacular	p. 567
Nicholas Love	p. 568
from The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ	p. 568
from The Confession of Hawisia Moone of Loddon	p. 569
Margery Kempe	p. 572
The Book of Margery Kempe	p. 573
The Preface	p. 573
[Early Life and Temptations, Revelation, Desire for Foreign Pilgrimage]	p. 573
[Meeting with Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of Canterbury]	p. 580
[Visit with Julian of Norwich]	p. 583
[Pilgrimage to Jerusalem]	p. 585
[Arrest by Duke of Bedford's Men; Meeting with Archbishop of York]	p. 587
Middle English Lyrics	p. 591
The Cuckoo Song ("Sumer is icumen in")	p. 593
Spring ("Lenten is come with love to toune")	p. 593
Alisoun ("Bitwene Mersh and Averil")	p. 595
I Have a Noble Cock	p. 596
My Lefe Is Faren in a Lond	p. 596
Fowls in the Frith	p. 597
Abuse of Women ("In every place ye may well see")	p. 597
The Irish Dancer ("Gode sire, pray ich thee")	p. 598
A Forsaken Maiden's Lament ("I lovede a child of this cuntree")	p. 599
The Wily Clerk ("This enther day I mete a clerke")	p. 599
Jolly Jankin ("As I went on YoI Day in our procession")	p. 600
Adam Lay Ibounden	p. 601
I Sing of a Maiden	p. 601
In Praise of Mary ("Edi be thu, Hevene Quene")	p. 602
Mary Is with Child ("Under a tree")	p. 603
Sweet Jesus, King of Bliss	p. 604
Now Goeth Sun under Wood	p. 606
Jesus, My Sweet Lover ("Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete")	p. 606
Contempt of the World ("Where beth they biforen us weren?")	p. 606
Dafydd Ap Gwilym	p. 608
Aubade	p. 609
One Saving Place	p. 610
The Girls of Llanbadarn	p. 612
Tale of a Wayside Inn	p. 613
The Hateful Husband	p. 615
The Winter	p. 616
The Ruin	p. 617
Middle Scots Poets	p. 618
William Dunbar	p. 618
Lament for the Makars	p. 618
Done Is a Battell	p. 621
In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht	p. 622
Robert Henryson	p. 624
Robene and Makyne	p. 624
Late Medieval Allegory	p. 628
Charles D'Orleans	p. 628
Ballade 26	p. 629
Ballade 61	p. 630
Roundel 94	p. 631
Mankind	p. 631
Christine De Pizan	p. 658
from Book of the City of Ladies	p. 659
Literary and Cultural Terms	p. 666
Index	p. 685
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