Bibliographical Information
This bibliography is adapted from Stephen Reimer’s University of Alberta Lydgate
website:
The Canon of John Lydgate Project.
Historical Background
Historical Background: The Abbey of Bury St. Edmund's
Literary Background
Literary Background: Medieval Literary Theory
John Lydgate: Editions
John Lydgate: Criticism (Monographs)
John Lydgate: Criticism (Articles and Chapters)
Allmand, Christopher. Henry V. English Monarchs 10. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992.
Asch, Ronald G., and Adolf M. Birke, eds. Princes, Patronage, and the Nobility: The Court at the Beginning of the Modern Age, c. 1450-1560. Studies of the German Historical Institute, London. Oxford: Oxford University Press, for the German Historical Institute, 1991.
Brady, Thomas A., Jr., Heiko A. Oberman, and James D. Tracy, eds. Handbook of European History 1400-1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation. 2 vols. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994-1995.
Brown, A. L. The Governance of Late Medieval England, 1272-1461. The Governance of England 3. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989.
Burns, J[ames] H[enderson]. Lordship, Kingship and Empire: The Idea of Monarchy, 1400-1525. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
Chrimes, S. B., C. D. Ross, and R. A. Griffiths, ed. Fifteenth-Century England, 1399-1509: Studies in Politics and Society. Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York, Barnes and Noble Books, 1972.
Cox, J. C. "The Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds." In The Victoria History of the County of Suffolk. Ed. William Page. 2 vols. London: Archibald Constable and Co., 1907-1911. 2: 56-72, and Plate 1 (facing p. 72).
DeVries, Kelly. Medieval Military Technology. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1992.
Elton, G[eoffrey] R[udolph]. England, 1200-1640. Sources of History: Studies in the Uses of Historical Evidence. London: The Sources of History, in association with Hodder and Stoughton, 1969.
Goodman, Anthony. John of Gaunt. London: Longman, 1992.
Gransden, Antonia. Legends, Traditions and History in Medieval England. London: Hambledon, 1992.
Griffiths, Ralph A[lan], ed. Patronage: The Crown and the Provinces in Later Medieval England. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1981.
Griffiths, Ralph A[lan]. The Reign of King Henry VI: The Exercise of Royal Authority, 1422-1461. London: E. Benn, 1981.
Griffiths, Ralph A[lan], and James Sherborne, eds. Kings and Nobles in the Later Middle Ages: A Tribute to Charles Ross. Gloucester: Alan Sutton; New York: St. Martin's, 1986.
Hanawalt, Barbara, ed. Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context. Medieval Studies at Minnesota 4. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992.
Harriss, G[erald] L[eslie], ed. Henry V: The Practice of Kingship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Hutchinson, Harold. Henry V: A Biography. New York: Day, 1967.
Jacob, E[rnest] F[raser]. The Fifteenth Century, 1399-1485. Oxford History of England 6. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961.
James, Montague Rhodes. On the Abbey of S. Edmund at Bury. Cambridge Antiquarian Society Publications, Octavo Publications 28. Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1895.
Keen, M[aurice] H[ugh]. England in the Later Middle Ages: A Political History. London: Methuen, 1973.
Keen, M[aurice] H[ugh]. English Society in the Later Middle Ages, 1348-1500. The Penguin Social History of Britain. London: Allen Lane / Penguin Books, 1990.
Mathew, Gervase. The Court of Richard II. London: John Murray, 1968.
McFarlane, K. B. England in the Fifteenth Century: Collected Essays. History Series 5. London: Hambledon Press, 1981.
McKenna, John W. "Henry VI of England and the Dual Monarchy: Aspects of Royal Political Propaganda, 1422-32." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 28 (1965): 145-162.
McKisak, May. The Fourteenth Century, 1307-1399. Oxford History of England 5. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959.
Myers, A. R. England in the Late Middle Ages. 8th ed. Pelican History of England 4. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971.
Ormrod, W. M. The Reign of Edward III. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
Perroy, Edouard. The Hundred Years War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962.
Rackham, Oliver. Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape: The Complete History of Britains's Trees, Woods, and Hedgerows. London: Dent, 1993.
Razi, Zvi. Life, Marriage, and Death in a Medieval Parish: Economy, Society, and Demography in Halesowen, 1270-1400. Past and Present. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Rigby, S. H. English Society in the Later Middle Ages: Class, Status and Gender. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
Riley-Smith, Jonathan. The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading. London: Athlone Press, 1993.
Rodes, R. E. Ecclesiastical Administration in Medieval England. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977.
Roskell, J. S. "Thomas Chaucer of Ewelme." In Parliaments and Politics in Late Medieval England. London: Hambledon, 1983. Pp. 151-192.
Ross, Charles, ed. Patronage, Pedigree, and Power in Later Medieval England. Ed. Charles Ross. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1979.
Seward, Desmond. Henry V as Warlord. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1987.
Seward, Desmond. The Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453. New York: Atheneum, 1978.
Storey, R. I. The End of the House of Lancaster. New York: Stein and Day, 1967.
Taylor, John, and Wendy Childs, eds. Politics and Crisis in Fourteenth-Century England. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1990.
Vickers, K[enneth] H[otham]. Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A Biography. London: Archibald Constable and Co., 1907.
Waugh, Scott L. England in the Reign of Edward III. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Williams, Daniel, ed. England in the Fifteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1986 Harlaxton Symposium. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1987.
Historical Background: The Abbey of Bury St. Edmund's
Abou-El-Haj, Barbara. "Bury St Edmunds Abbey Between 1070 and 1124: A History of Property, Privilege, and Monastic Art Production." Art History 6.1 (March 1983): 1-29.
Arnold, E. Thomas, ed. Memorials of St. Edmund's Abbey. Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi Scriptores ("Rolls Series") 96. 3 vols. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, for HMSO, 1890-1896.
Butler, Lionel [Harry], and Chris Given-Wilson. Medieval Monasteries of Great Britain. London: Michael Joseph, 1979.
Cox, J. C. "The Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds." In The Victoria History of the County of Suffolk. Ed. William Page. 2 vols. London: Archibald Constable and Co., 1907-1911. 2: 56-72, and Plate 1 (facing p. 72).
Douglas, D. C., ed. Feudal Documents from the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds. Records of the Social and Economic History of England and Wales 8. London: Oxford University Press, 1932.
Dugdale, William (Sir). Monasticon Anglicanum; a History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries, and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches . . . in England and Wales; Also of Such Scotch, Irish, and French Monasteries As Were in Any Manner Connected with Religious Houses in England; . . . A New Edition, Enriched with a Large Accession of Materials Now First Printed . . . the History of Each Religious Foundation in English Being Prefixed to Its Respective Series of Latin Charters. By John Caley . . . Henry Ellis, . . . and Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. 6 vols. in 8. London: Longman, 1817-1830. [Spec coll BX 2592.D86 folio. See 3: 98-176 on Bury St. Edmunds.]
Galbraith, V. H. "The East Anglian See and the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds." English Historical Review 40 (1925): 222-228.
Gottfried, R. S. Bury St. Edmunds and the Urban Crisis, 1290-1539. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.
James, Montague Rhodes. "Bury St. Edmunds Manuscripts." English Historical Review 41 (1926): 251-260. [A list of extant MSS known to have been part of the library of the Abbey of St. Edmund; an updating of lists in his essay on the Bury Library in On the Abbey of S. Edmund at Bury.]
James, Montague Rhodes. On the Abbey of S. Edmund at Bury. Cambridge Antiquarian Society Publications, Octavo Publications 28. Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1895. [Two essays: 1. "Bibliotheca Buriensis" (pp. 1-114), "On the Abbey Church of S. Edmund at Bury" (pp. 115-212).]
Jocelin of Brakelond. Chonicle of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds. Trans. Diana Greenway and Jane Sayers. The World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Lobel, M[ary] D[oreen]. The Borough of Bury St. Edmund's: A Study in the Government and Development of a Monastic Town. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935.
Matten, J. M. The Cult of St. Edmund. Thurston: Drecroft, 1984.
Seymour, John. The Companion Guide to East Anglia. London: Collins, 1970.
Sharpe, R., J. P. Carley, R. M. Thomson, and A. G. Watson, eds. English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues. The Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 4. London: British Library, in association with the British Academy, 1996. [Includes catalogues from the library at Bury St. Edmunds (catalogues B12-B16).]
Thomson, Rodney M., ed. The Archives of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds. Suffolk Records Society 21. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, for the Suffolk Records Society, 1980.
Thomson, Rodney M. "The Library of Bury St Edmunds in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries." Speculum 47 (1972): 617-645.
Whittingham, A. B. "Bury St. Edmunds Abbey: The Plan, Design and Development of the Church and Monastic Buildings." Archaeological Journal 108 (1951): 168-187 and Plates XIX-XX.
Yates, Richard. History and Antiquities of the Abbey of St. Edmund's Bury, . . . with Views of the Most Considerable Monasterial Remains. Illus. William Yates. 2nd ed. London: J. B. Nichols and Son, 1843.
Aers, David. Community, Gender and Individual Identity: English Writing 1360-1430. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1989.
Atwan, Robert, and Laurance Wieder. Chapters into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible. 2 vols. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. [Rutherford PR 1191 C467 1993. Versifications of passages from the Bible, arranged according to Biblical order.]
Bennett, H[enry] S[tanley]. Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century. Oxford History of English Literature 2.1. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947.
Bennett, Michael J. "The Court of Richard II and the Promotion of Literature." In Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context. Ed. Barbara Hanawalt. Medieval Studies at Minnesota 4. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. Pp. 3-20.
Bernardo, Aldo S., and Saul Levin, eds. The Classics in the Middle Ages: Papers of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 69. Binghamton, NY: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York, 1990.
Boffey, Julia. "Middle English Lyrics: Texts and Interpretations." In Medieval Literature: Texts and Interpretations. Ed. Tim William Machan. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 79. Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (Centre for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton), 1991. Pp. 121-138.
Bonner, Francis W. "The Genesis of the Chaucer Apocrypha." Studies in Philology 48 (1951): 461-481.
Bowers, John M. "The House of Chaucer & Son: The Business of Lancastrian Canon-Formation." Medieval Perspectives 6 (1991): 135-143.
Bowers, John M. "Mankind and the Political Interests of Bury St. Edmunds." Æstel 2 (1994): 77-103.
Bumke, Joachim. Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages. Trans. Thomas Dunlap. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991.
Burrow, J. A. Ricardian Poetry: Chaucer, Gower, Langland and the Gawain Poet. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971.
Busby, Keith, and Erik Kooper, eds. Courtly Literature: Culture and Context; Selected Papers from the 5th Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, Dalfsen, The Netherlands, 9-16 August 1986. Utrechtse Publikaties voor Algemene Literatuurwetenschap / Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Linguistics 25. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1990.
Calin, William. The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England. University of Toronto Romance Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.
Chamberlain, David, ed. New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993.
Chambers, E[dmund] K[erchever]. English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages. 2nd ed. Oxford History of English Literature 2.2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947.
Chance, Jane. Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D. 422-1177. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994.
Coleman, Janet. English Literature in History, 1350-1400: Medieval Readers and Writers. English Literature in History 1. London: Hutchinson, 1981.
Conley, John. "'Aureate': A Stylistic Term." Notes and Queries ns 13 [211] (1966): 369-371.
Cooper, Helen. "Generic Variations on the Theme of Poetic and Civil Authority." In Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature; The J. A.W. Bennett Memorial Lectures, Seventh Series, Perugia, 1990. Ed. Piero Boitani and Anna Torti. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991. Pp. 83-103.
Copeland, Rita, ed. Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Cowen, Janet. "Women as Exempla in Fifteenth-Century Verse of the Chaucerian Tradition." In Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry. Ed. Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen. King's College London Medieval Studies 5. London: King's College London, Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1991. Pp. 51-65.
Curtius, E. R. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. Trans. W. R. Trask. New York: Pantheon Books, 1953.
Davidoff, Judith M. Beginning Well: Framing Fictions in Late Middle English Poetry. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1988. ["Explores the symbolic effects of narrative patterns in Middle Englilsh verse, in relation to medieval assumptions about narrative structures."]
Dean, James M., and Christian K. Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992.
Delany, Sheila. Medieval Literary Politics: Shapes of Ideology. Cultural Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990.
Doob, Penelope Reed. The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Ebin, Lois A. Illuminator, Makar, Vates: Visions of Poetry in the Fifteenth Century. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
Ebin, Lois A., ed. Vernacular Poetics in the Middle Ages. Studies in Medieval Culture 16. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1984.
Edwards, A. S. G., ed. and intro. "Tradition and Innovation in Fifteenth-Century Poetry." A Special Issue of Modern Language Quarterly 53.1 (March 1992).
Edwards, Robert R. Ratio and Invention: A Study in Medieval Lyric and Narrative. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1989.
Eliason, Norman E. "Chaucer's Fifteenth-Century Successors." Medieval and Renaissance Studies 5 (1969): 103-121.
Emmerson, Richard K., and Bernard McGinn. The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.
Emmerson, Richard K., and Ronald B. Herzman. The Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
Evans, Rudy, and Lesley Johnson, eds. Feminist Readings in Middle English Poetry: The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect. London: Routledge, 1995.
Farrell, Thomas B. Norms of Rhetorical Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Fisher, John H. The Importance of Chaucer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.
Fletcher, Bradford Y., and A. Leslie Harris. "On the Concept 'Popular' in Middle English Poetry." English Studies 73 (1992): 292-299.
Fox, Denton. "Chaucer's Influence on Fifteenth-Century Poetry." In Companion to Chaucer Studies. Ed. Beryl Rowland. New York: Oxford University Press,1968. Pp. 385-402. [This essay was not included in the second edition.]
Gibson, Gail McMurray. The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Gilbert, Allan H. "Notes on the Influence of the Secretum Secretorum." Speculum 3 (1928): 84-98.
Gray, Douglas, ed. English Medieval Religious Lyrics. 2nd ed. Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1992.
Green, Richard Firth. "John Ball's Letters: Literary History and Historical Literature." In Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context. Ed. Barbara Hanawalt. Medieval Studies at Minnesota 4. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. Pp. 176-200.
Green, Richard Firth. Poets and Princepleasers: Literature and the English Court in the Late Middle Ages. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.
Guerin, M. Victoria. The Fall of Kings and Princes: Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy. Reading Medieval Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
Harwood, Britton J., and Gillian R. Overing, eds. Class and Gender in Early English Literature: Intersections. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1994.
Heffernan, Thomas J. "The Virgin as an Aid to Salvation in Some Fifteenth-Century English and Latin Verses." Medium Ævum 52 (1983): 229-238.
Hopkins, Andrea. The Sinful Knights: A Study of Middle English Penitential Romance. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
Kessel-Brown, Deirdre. "The Emotional Landscape of the Forest in the Mediaeval Love Lament." Medium Ævum 59 (1990): 228-247.
Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge. English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century, with an Appendix of Chronicles and Historical Pieces Hitherto for the Most Part Unprinted. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913.
Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge. English History in Contemporary Poetry. No. 2. London: G. Bell and Sons, for the Historical Association, 1913.
Knight, Stephen. "The Social Function of the Middle English Romances." In Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology, and History. Ed. David Aers. New York: St. Martin's, 1986. Pp. 99-122.
Lerer, Seth. Chaucer and his Readers: Imagining the Author in Late Medieval England. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Lewis, C. S. The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition. London: Oxford University Press, 1936.
Machan, Tim William, ed. Medieval Literature: Texts and Interpretations. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 79. Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SUNY, 1991.
Mendenhall, John Cooper. Aureate Terms: A Study in the Literary Diction of the Fifteenth Century. Lancaster, PA: Wickersham Printing Company, 1919.
Middleton, Anne. "The Idea of Public Poetry in the Reign of Richard II." Speculum 53 (1978): 94-114.
Morse, Ruth. Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages: Rhetoric, Representation, and Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Myles, Robert. Chaucerian Realism. Chaucer Studies 20. Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 1994.
Olson, Paul A. The Canterbury Tales and the Good Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Owst, Gerald R. Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England: A Neglected Chapter in the History of English Letters and of the English People. 2nd ed. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1961.
---. Preaching in Medieval England: An Introduction to Sermon Manuscripts of the Period c. 1350-1450. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. 1926; rpt. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965.
Palmer, R. Barton, ed. Chaucer's French Contemporaries. Georgia State Literary Studies 10. New York: AMS, 1992.
Patch, Howard. The Goddess Fortuna in Medieval Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927.
Patterson, Lee. Chaucer and the Subject of History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; London: Routledge, 1991.
---, ed. Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530. New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Politics 8. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
---. Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
Pinti, Daniel J., ed. Writing after Chaucer: Essential Readings in Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century. Basic Readings in Chaucer and his Times 1; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 2040. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998.
Scanlon, Larry. Narrative, Authority, and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 20. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Scattergood, V[incent] J[ohn]. Politics and Poetry in the Fifteenth Century, 1399-1485. Blandford History Series. London: Blandford Press, 1971.
Spearing, A[nthony] C. The Medieval Poet as Voyeur: Looking and Listening in Medieval Love-Narratives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Spearing, A[nthony] C. Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Spearing, A[nthony] C. "The Poetic Subject from Chaucer to Spenser." In Subjects on the World's Stage: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Ed. David G. Allen and Robert A. White. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1995. Pp. 13-37.
Spiegel, Gabrielle M. The Past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography. Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Stemmler, Theo. "'My Fair Lady': Parody in Fifteenth-Century English Lyrics." In Medieval Studies Conference Aachen 1983: Language and Literature. Ed. Wolf-Dietrich Bald and Horst Weinstock. Frankfort: Peter Lang, 1984. Pp. 205-213.
Strohm, Paul. "Chaucer's Audience." Literature and History 3 [no. 5] (1977): 26-41.
Strohm, Paul. "Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Writers as Readers of Chaucer." In Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century: The J. A. W. Bennett Memorial Lectures, Perugia, 1986. Ed. Piero Boitani and Anna Torti. Tübinger Beiträge zur Anglistik 11. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1988. Pp. 90-104.
Torti, Anna. The Glass of Form: Mirroring Structures from Chaucer to Skelton. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1991.
Wasserman, Julian N., and Lois Roney, eds. Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1989.
Wenzel, Siegfried. "The Pilgrimage of Life as a Late Medieval Genre." Mediaeval Studies 35 (1973): 370-388.
Whitman, Jon. Allegory: The Dynamics of an Ancient and Medieval Technique. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Woolf, Rosemary. The English Religious Lyric in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.
Wright, Thomas, ed. Political Poems and Songs Relating to English History, Composed during the Period from the Accession of Edward III to that of Richard III. 2 vols. Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi Scriptores ("Rolls Series") 13. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, for HMSO, 1859 and 1861.
Literary Background: Medieval Literary Theory
Allen, Judson Boyce. The Friar as Critic: Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971.
Allen, Judson Boyce. "Herman the German's Averroistic Aristotle and Medieval Poetic Theory." Mosaic 9.3 (1975-1976): 67-82.
Atkins, J. W. H. English Literary Criticism: Medieval. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1943.
Augustine (Saint). On Christian Doctrine. Trans. D. W. Robertson, Jr. The Library of Liberal Arts. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958.
Boitani, Piero, and Anna Torti, eds. Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature: J. A. W. Bennett Memorial Lectures, Seventh Series, Perugia, Italy, 1990. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991. Collins, Patrick J. "Typology, Criticism and Medieval Drama: Some Observations on Method." Comparative Drama 10 (1976): 298-313.
Copeland, Rita. Rhetoric, Hermeneutics and Translation in the Middle Ages: Academic Traditions and Vernacular Texts. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Dante Alighieri. "The Four Levels of Interpretation [from The Banquet (Il Convivio)]." In Literary Criticism of Dante Alighieri. Trans. Robert S. Haller. Regents Critics Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1973. Pp. 112-114.
Dante Alighieri. "The Letter to Can Grande." In Literary Criticism of Dante Alighieri. Trans. Robert S. Haller. Regents Critics Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1973. Pp. 95-111.
Eco, Umberto, and Costantino Marmo, eds. On the Medieval Theory of Signs. Trans. Shona Kelly. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1989.
Gallacher, Patrick J., and Helen Damico, eds. Hermeneutics and Medieval Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
Hugo of St. Victor. Didascalicon. Ed. Charles Henry Buttimer. The Catholic University of America Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Latin 10. Washington, DC: The Catholic University Press, 1939.
McGerr, Rosemarie P. "Medieval Concepts of Literary Closure: Theory and Practice." Exemplaria 1 (1989): 149-179.
Miner, Earl. Literary Uses of Typology from the Late Middle Ages to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.
Minnis, A. J., and A. B. Scott, eds., with David Wallace. Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism c.1100-c.1375: The Commentary Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. ["The majority of the texts are here translated for the first time; most of the translations have been prepared specially for this edition. The selections are fully annotated and provided with introductions which form a linked series of essays towards the history of medieval literary theory and criticism."]
Paxson, James J. "A Theory of Biblical Typology in the Middle Ages." Exemplaria 3 (1991): 359-383.
Tout, Thomas Frederick. "Literature and Learning in the English Civil Service in the Fourteenth Century." Speculum 4 (1929): 365-389.
Vance, Eugene. Mervelous Signals: Poetics and Sign Theory in the Middle Ages. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
Chadwyck-Healey. "The English Poetry Full-text Database." CD-ROM (5 disks, with printed Bibliography and User's Manual). Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1992.
Chadwyck-Healey. "English Verse Drama: A Full Text Database." CD-ROM (2 disks, with printed Bibliography and User's Manual). Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1995.
Lydgate, John. A Critical Edition of John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady. Ed. Joseph A. Lauritis, Ralph A Klinefelter, and Vernon F. Gallagher. Duquesne Studies, Philological Series 2. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University, 1961.
Lydgate, John. The Dance of Death, Edited from MSS. Ellesmere 26/A.13 and B.M. Lansdowne 699, Collated with the Other Extant MSS. Ed. Florence Warren; Intro. and Notes by Beatrice White. Early English Text Society OS 181. London: Oxford University Press, for the Early English Text Society, 1931.
Lydgate, John. The Life of Saint Alban and Saint Amphibal. Ed. J. E. van der Westhuizen. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974.
Lydgate, John. Lydgate's Fall of Princes. Ed. Henry Bergen. Early English Text Society ES 121, 122, 123, and 124. 4 vols. London: Oxford University Press, for the Early English Text Society, 1924-1927.
Lydgate, John. Lydgate's Minor Poems: The Two Nightingale Poems (A.D. 1446), Edited from the MSS. with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. Ed. Otto Glauning. Early English Text Society ES 80. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., for the Early English Text Society, 1900.
Lydgate, John. Lydgate's Reson and Sensuallyte: Edited from the Fairfax MS. 16 (Bodleian) and the Additional MS. 29,729 (Brit. Mus.). Ed. Ernst Sieper. 2 vols. Early English Text Society ES 84, 89. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., for the Early English Text Society, 1901-1903.
Lydgate, John. Lydgate's Siege of Thebes: Edited from All the Known Manuscripts and the Two Oldest Editions. Ed. Axel Erdmann. Vol. 2 ed. Axel Erdmann and Eilert Ekwall. 2 vols. Early English Text Society ES 108 and 125. Vol. 1: London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., and Oxford University Press, for the Early English Text Society, 1911. Vol. 2: London: Oxford University Press, for the Early English Text Society, 1930 (for 1920).
Lydgate, John. Lydgate's Temple of Glas. Ed. J[osef] Schick. Early English Text Society ES 60. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., for the Early English Text Society, 1891.
Lydgate, John. Lydgate's Troy Book, A. D. 1412-20. Ed. Henry Bergen. Early English Text Society ES 97, 103, 106, and 126. 4 vols. Vol. 1: London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., 1906. Vol. 2: London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., and Oxford University Press, for the Early English Text Society, 1908. Vol. 3: London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., for the Early English Text Society, 1910. Vol. 4: London: Oxford University Press, for the Early English Text Society, 1935.
Lydgate, John. The Minor Poems of John Lydgate, Edited from all Available MSS., with an Attempt to Establish the Lydgate Canon. Ed. Henry Noble MacCracken. 2 vols. Early English Text Society ES 107, OS 192. London: Oxford University Press, for the Early English Text Society, 1911 (for 1910), 1934 (for 1933).
Lydgate, John. The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man Englisht by John Lydgate, A. D. 1426, from the French of Guillaume de Deguileville, A. D. 1330, 1335. Ed. Frederick James Furnivall with Intro., notes, glossary, and indices by Katharine B. Locock. Early English Text Society ES 77, 83, 92. 3 vols. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., for the Early English Text Society, 1899-1904.
Lydgate, John. Poems. Ed. John Norton-Smith. Clarendon Medieval and Tudor Series. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.
Lydgate, John. "Prologue to The Siege of Thebes." In The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions; John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes (BL Arundel 119); The Ploughman's Tale (Christ Church Oxford MS 152); The Cook's Tale (Bodley MS 686); Spurious Links (BL Lansdowne 851 and BL Royal 18.C.ii); The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn (Northumberland MS 455). Ed. John M. Bowers. Middle English Texts. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, for TEAMS, 1992. Pp. 11-22.
Lydgate, John. A Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate. Ed. James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps]. Percy Society, Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages 2. London: C. Richards, for the Percy Society, 1840.
Lydgate, John. Selections from Lydgate's Troy Book. Ed. Robert R. Edwards. Middle English Texts. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, for TEAMS, 1997.
Lydgate, John. The Serpent of Division, by John Lydgate, the Monk of Bury, Edited, with Introduction, Notes, and a Glossary by Henry Noble MacCracken, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English Literature at Yale University, U.S.A., with Three Full-Page Reproductions from Contemporary MS. Illuminations Accompanying the Text. Ed. Henry Noble MacCracken. New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1911.
Lydgate, John. Table Manners for Children: "Stans Puer ad Mensam" by John Lydgate. Salisbury: Perdix Press, 1989.
Lydgate, John, and Benedict Burgh. Lydgate and Burgh's Secrees of Old Philisoffres: A Version of the "Secreta Secretorum," edited from the Sloane MS. 2464, with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. Ed. Robert Steele. Early English Text Society ES 66. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., for the Early English Text Society, 1894.
John Lydgate: Criticism (Monographs)
Courmont, André. Studies in Lydgate's Syntax in "The Temple of Glas." Université de Paris, Bibliothèque de la faculté des lettres 28. Paris: F. Alcan, 1912.
Ebin, Lois A. John Lydgate. Twayne's English Authors Series 407. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985.
Gattinger, E[dmund]. Die Lyrik Lydgates. Wiener Beiträge zur englischen Philologie 4. Vienna and Leipzig: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1896.
Hagen, Susan K[athleen]. Allegorical Remembrance: A Study of "The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man" as a Medieval Treatise on Seeing and Remembering. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1990.
Hingst, Richard. Die Sprache John Lydgates aus seinen Reimen. Diss. Greifswald, 1908.
Pearsall, Derek. John Lydgate. Medieval Authors: Poets of the Later Middle Ages. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1970.
Renoir, Alain. The Poetry of John Lydgate. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967.
Schirmer, Walter F[ranz]. John Lydgate: A Study in the Culture of the XVth Century. Trans. Ann E. Keep. London: Methuen, 1961. [Translation of John Lydgate: Ein Kulturbild aus dem 15. Jarhundert. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1952.]
John Lydgate: Criticism (Articles and Chapters)
Allen, Rosamund S. "The Siege of Thebes: Lydgate's Canterbury Tale." In Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry. Ed. Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen. King's College London Medieval Studies 5. London: King's College London, Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1991. Pp. 122-142.
Ambrisco, Alan S., and Paul Strohm. "Succession and Sovereignty in Lydgate's Prologue to The Troy Book." Chaucer Review 30 (1995-1996): 40-57.
Ayers, Robert W. "Medieval History, Moral Purpose, and the Structure of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes." PMLA 73 (1958): 463-474.
Bennett, H[enry] S[tanley]. "The Author and His Public in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries." Essays and Studies 23 (1938): 7-24.
Benson, C[arl] David. "The Ancient World in John Lydgate's Troy Book." American Benedictine Review 24 (1973): 299-312.
Benson, C[arl] David. "Critic and Poet: What Lydgate and Henryson did to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde." Modern Language Quarterly 53 (1992):23-40.
Blake, N[orman] F. "John Lydgate and William Caxton." Leeds Studies in English ns 16 (1985): 272-289.
Blake, N[orman] F[rancis]. "Reflections on William Caxton's 'Reynard the Fox.'" In Le Roman de Renard; On the Beast Epic. Ed. Adrian van den Hoven. A special issue of Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies / Revue Canadienne d'Etudes Néerlandaises 4.1 (May 1983): pp. 69-76. [On Lydgate's influence.]
Blake, N[orman] F[rancis]. "William Caxton Again in the Light of Recent Scholarship." Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 12 (1982): 162-182. [On Lydgate's influence.]
Boffey, Julia. "Lydgate's Lyrics and Women Readers." In Women, the Book, and the Worldly. Ed. Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor. Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference 1993, Vol. 2. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer / Boydell and Brewer, 1995. Pp. 139-149.
Boffey, Julia. "Short Texts in Manuscript Anthologies: The Minor Poems of John Lydgate in Two Fifteenth-Century Collections." In The Whole Book: Cultural Perspectives on the Medieval Miscellany. Ed. Stephen G. Nichols and Siegfried Wenzel. Recentiores: Later Latin Texts and Contexts. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. 69-82.
Bowers, John M. "The Tale of Beryn and The Siege of Thebes: Alternative Ideas of the Canterbury Tales." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 7 (1985): 23-50.
Bowers, R. H. "Iconography in Lydgate's Dance of Death." Southern Folklore Quarterly 12 (1948): 111-128.
Boyd, Beverly. "The Literary Background of Lydgate's The Legend of Dan Joos." Modern Language Notes 72 (1957): 81-87.
Brown, Carleton. "Lydgate's Verses on Queen Margaret's Entry into London." Modern Language Review 7 (1912): 225-234.
Clogan, Paul M. "Lydgate and the Roman antique." Florilegium 11 (1992): 7-21.
Copeland, Rita. "Lydgate, Hawes, and the Science of Rhetoric in the Late Middle Ages." Modern Language Quarterly 53 (1992): 57-82.
Cornell, Christine. "'Purtreture' and 'Holsom Stories': John Lydgate's Accomodation of Image and Text in Three Religious Lyrics." Florilegium 10 (1988-1991): 167-178.
Crow, Brian. "Lydgate's 1445 Pageant for Margaret of Anjou." English Language Notes 18 (1981): 170-174.
Ebin, Lois [A]. "Lydgate's Views on Poetry." Annuale Mediaevale 18 (1977): 76-105.
Edwards, A. S. G. "The Influence of Lydgate's Fall of Princes c. 1440-1559: A Survey." Mediaeval Studies 39 (1977): 424-439.
Edwards, A. S. G. "John Lydgate and Medieval Antifeminism and Harley 2251." Annuale Mediaevale 13 (1972): 32-44.
Edwards, A. S. G. "Lydgate Scholarship: Progress and Prospects." In Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays. Ed. Robert F. Yeager. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1984. Pp. 29-47.
Edwards, A. S. G. "Lydgate's Attitudes to Women." English Studies 51 (1970): 436-437.
Edwards, A. S. G. "Lydgate's Use of Chaucer: Structure, Strategy, and Style." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 10 (1985): 175-182.
Fallows, David. "Words and Music in Two English Songs of the Mid-15th Century: Charles d'Orléans and John Lydgate." Early Music 2 (1977): 38-44.
Farvolden, Pamela. "'Love Can No Frenship': Erotic Triangles in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale' and Lydgate's Fabula duorum mercatorum." In Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature. Ed. Muriel Whitaker. Garland Medieval Casebooks 11; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 1876. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1995. Pp. 21-44.
Fichte, Joerg O. "'Quha wait gif all that Chauceir wrait was trew': Auctor and Auctoritas in 15th Century English Literature." Traditionswandel und Traditionsverhalten. Ed. Walter Haug and Burghart Wachinger. Fortuna Vitrea: Arbeiten zur literarischen Tradition zwischen dem 13. und 16. Jahrhundert 5. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1991. Pp. 61-76.
Finlayson, John. "Guido de Columnis' Historia destructionis Troiae, The 'Gest Hystorial' of the Destruction of Troy, and Lydgate's Troy Book: Translation and the Design of History." Anglia 113 (1995): 141-162.
Gathercole, Patricia M. "Lydgate's 'Fall of Princes' and the French Version of Boccaccio's 'De Casibus.'" In Miscellanea di Studi e Ricerche sul Quattrocento francese. Ed. Franco Simone. Università degli studi de Torino. Torino: Giappichelli, 1967. Pp. 165-178.
Gibson, Gail McMurray. "Bury St. Edmunds, Lydgate, and the N-Town Cycle." Speculum 56 (1981): 56-90.
Hammond, Eleanor Prescott. "Dance Macabre." Modern Language Notes 24 (1909): 63.
Hammond, Eleanor Prescott. "The Departing of Chaucer." Modern Philology 1 (1902-1903): 331-336.
Hammond, Eleanor Prescott. "Lydgate and the Duchess of Gloucester." Anglia 27 (1904): 381-398.
Hammond, Eleanor Prescott. "Lydgate's Mumming at Hertford." Anglia 22 (1899): 364-374.
Hammond, Eleanor Prescott. "A Reproof to Lydgate." Modern Language Notes 26 (1911): 74-76.
Hammond, Eleanor Prescott. "Two Tapestry Poems by Lydgate: The Life of St. George and the Falls of Seven Princes." Englische Studien 43 (1910): 10-26.
Hardman, Phillipa. "Lydgate's Life of Our Lady: A Text in Transition." Medium Ævum 65 (1996): 248-268.
Hardwick, C[harles], ed. "Lament of Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester, When Convicted of Sorcery." Communications made to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Octavo Series 6 (1856), published as part of Antiquarian Communications 1 (1859): 177-190.
Hascall, Dudley L. "The Prosody of John Lydgate." Language and Style 3 (1970): 122-146.
Kipling, Gordon. "The London Pageants for Margaret of Anjou: A Medieval Script Restored." Medieval English Theatre 4 (1982): 5-27.
Kohl, Stephan. "Chaucer's Pilgrims in Fifteenth-Century Literature." Fifteenth Century Studies 7 (1983): 221-236.
Kohl, Stephan. "The Kingis Quair and Lydgate's Siege of Thebes as Imitations of Chaucer's Knight's Tale." Fifteenth Century Studies 2 (1979): 119-134.
Machan, Tim William. "Textual Authority and the Works of Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Henryson." Viator 23 (1992): 281-299.
Miller, James Ivan, Jr. "Lydgate the Hagiographer as Literary Artist." In The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Ed. Larry D. Benson. Harvard English Studies 5. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974. Pp. 279-290.
Nichols, Pierrepont H. "Lydgate's Influence on the Aureate Terms of the Scottish Chaucerians." PMLA 47 (1932): 516-522.
Norton-Smith, John. "Lydgate's Changes in the Temple of Glas." Medium Ævum 27 (1958): 166-172.
Parry, P. H. "On the Continuity of English Civic Pageantry: A Study of John Lydgate and the Tudor Pageant." Forum for Modern Language Studies 15 (1979): 222-236.
Patterson, Lee. "Making Identities in Fifteenth-Century England: Henry V and John Lydgate." In New Historical Literary Study: Essays on Reproducing Texts, Representing History. Ed. Jeffrey N. Cox and Larry J. Reynolds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. 69-107.
Pearsall, Derek. "Chaucer and Lydgate." In Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer. Ed. Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 39-53.
Pearsall, Derek. "Lydgate as Innovator." Modern Language Quarterly 53 (1992): 5-22.
Pearsall, Derek. "Signs of Life in Lydgate's 'Danse Macabre.'" In Zeit, Tod und Ewigkeit in der renaissance Literatur III. Ed. James Hogg. Analecta Cartusiana 117. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1987. Pp. 58-71.
Reimer, Stephen R. "Differentiating Chaucer and Lydgate: Some Preliminary Observations." In Computer-Based Chaucer Studies. Ed. Ian Lancashire. CCH Working Papers 3. Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993. Pp. 161-176 (abstract: 203-204).
Reimer, Stephen R. "A Fragment of John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady in Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge." English Language Notes 33.2 (Dec. 1995):1-15.
Renoir, Alain. "Attitudes Toward Women in Lydgate's Poetry." English Studies 42 (1961): 1-14.
Rowe, B. J. H. "King Henry VI's Claim to France in Picture and Poem." The Library, 4th ser. 13 (1932-1933): 77-88.
Simpson, James. "'Dysemol daies and Fatal houres': Lydgate's Destruction of Thebes and Chaucer's Knight's Tale." In The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray. Ed. Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 15-32.
Spearing, A[nthony] C. "Lydgate's Canterbury Tale: The Siege of Thebes and Fifteenth-Century Chaucerianism." In Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays. Ed. Robert F. Yeager. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1984. Pp. 333-364.
Tiner, Elza, Shirley Carnahan, and Anne Fjestad Peterson. "'Euer aftir to be rad & song': Lydgate's Texts in Performance [Parts I and II]." Early Drama, Art and Music Review 19.1 (Fall 1996): 41-52; 19.2 (Spring 1997): 85-92.
Torti, Anna. "John Lydgate's Temple of Glas: 'Atwixen Two So Hang I in Balaunce.'" In Intellectuals and Writers in Fourteenth-Century Europe. Ed. Piero Boitani and Anna Torti. Tübinger Beiträge zur Anglistik 7. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1986. Pp. 226-243.
Trapp, J. B. "Verses by Lydgate at Long Melford." Review of English Studies ns 6 (1955): 1-11.
Tripp, Raymond P., Jr. "The Loss of Suddenness in Lydgate's A Complaynt of a Loveres Lyfe." Fifteenth-Century Studies 6 (1983): 253-269.
Watson, Nicholas. "Outdoing Chaucer: Lydgate's Troy Book and Henryson's Testament of Cresseid as Competitive Imitations of Troilus and Criseyde." In Shifts and Transpositions in Medieval Narrative: A Festschrift for Dr Elspeth Kennedy. Ed. Karen Pratt. Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer / Boydell and Brewer, 1994. Pp. 89-108.
Wilson, Janet. "Poet and Patron in Early Fifteenth-Century England: John Lydgate's Temple of Glas." Parergon 11 (1975): 25-32.
Winstead, Karen A. "Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Alban: Martyrdom and Prudent Policie." Mediaevalia 17 (1994 [for 1991]): 221-241.
Withington, Robert. "Queen Margaret's Entry into London, 1445." Modern Philology 13 (1915-1916): 53-57.