Old & Middle English Reading List - English

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Period: Old & Middle English Literature (to 1485)

-- Bede, or Baeda (673?-735)

• Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (597-731)
  • Text

-- Anon

• Beowulf (c 750)
  • Text

-- Anon (Caedmon?)

• The Dream of the Rood (8th-9th Century A.D )
  • Text

-- Anon

• The Battle of Maldon (991 A.D ?)
  • Text

-- Geoffrey of Monmouth

• Prophetia Merlini (1135)
• Historia Regum Britanniæ (1136)

-- Geoffrey Chaucer (c 1340-1400)

• The Canterbury Tales (c 1387)
  • Text

-- Anon (Gawain Poet)

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c 1350-1400)
  • Overview

Anon (Pearl Poet)

• Pearl (1400)

-- William Langland (c 1330-c 1386)

• Piers Plowman (c 1362-c 1370)

-- Anon

• Everyman (c 1485)

-- Julian of Norwich (1342-c1416)

• A Revelation of Love

-- Margery Kempe (c 1373-1438)

• The Book of Margery Kempe (1436)

-- Sir Thomas Malory (c 1405-1471)

• Morte D'Arthur (c 1470)
  • Text (c 1470)
  
  
  

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