Suggested Secondary Reading
The following readling lists have been compiled to offer current students on the Tripos with the suggested secondary reading for the Part I course:
Paper 1: England before the Norman Conquest
- M. Lapidge, J. Blair, S. Keynes & D. Scragg (edd.),The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, (Blackwell, 1999)
- F. M. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford University Press, 1943; 3rd ed. 1971)
- P. H. Sawyer, From Roman Britain to Norman England, 2nd ed. (London, 1998)
- A. Williams, Kingship and Government in Pre-Conquest England, c. 500–1066 (Basingstoke, 1999)
- P. Hunter Blair, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge University Press, 1956; 2nd ed., 1977; re-issued with updated bibliography, 1995; revised edition with introduction by S. Keynes (Folio Society, 1997)
- H. R. Loyn, Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest, 2nd ed. (Longman, 1991)
- J. Campbell, P. Wormald and E. John, The Anglo-Saxons, ed. J. Campbell (Penguin, 1982)
- D. Hill, An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England (Blackwell, 1981)
Paper 2: Scandinavian history in the Viking Age
- P.S. Andersen, Vikings of the west: the expansion of Norway in the early middle ages (Oslo 1971)
- C. Batey et al., Cultural atlas of the Viking world (New York 1994)
- M. Blackburn and D.M. Metcalf, (edd.), Viking-age coinage in the northern lands, BAR International Series 122 (Oxford 1981)
- S. Brink, ‘Political and social structures in early Scandinavia: a settlement-historical pre-study of the central place’, Tor 28 (1996), 235-81
- J.L. Byock, Medieval Iceland: society, sagas and power (Berkeley 1988; repr. Enfield Lock 1993)
- B.E. Crawford, Scandinavian Scotland, Studies in the early history of Britain: Scotland in the early middle ages 2 (Leicester 1987)
- P.G. Foote and D.M. Wilson, The Viking achievement: the society and culture of early medieval Scandinavia, 2nd edn (London 1980)
- S. Franklin and J. Shepard, The emergence of Rus 750-1200 (London 1996)
- J. Graham-Campbell et al., The Viking world, 2nd edn (London 1989)
- J. Jóhannesson, A history of the old Icelandic commonwealth: Íslendinga saga, transl. H. Bessason, University of Manitoba Icelandic studies 2 (Winnipeg 1974)
- G. Jones, The Norse Atlantic saga, being the Norse voyages of discovery and settlement to Iceland, Greenland, and North America, 2nd edn (Oxford 1986)
- R. Mazo Karras, Slavery and society in medieval Scandinavia, Yale Historical Publications 135 (New Haven 1988)
- E. Roesdahl, Viking age Denmark, transl. S. Margeson and K. Williams (London 1982)
- E. Roesdahl, The Vikings, transl. S.M. Margeson and K. Williams (London 1991)
- P. Sawyer, Kings and Vikings: Scandinavia and Europe AD 700-1100 (London 1982)
- P. Sawyer, (ed.), The Oxford illustrated history of the Vikings (Oxford 1997)
Paper 5: Old English language and literature
Bibliographical
- S. B. Greenfield and F. C. Robinson, A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972 (Toronto, 1980)
Collections of Essays and Other Individual Studies
- P. S. Baker, ed., Beowulf: Basic Readings (New York, 1995); reprinted as The Beowulf Reader (New York, 2000)
- J. M. Bately, The Literary Prose of King Alfred’s Reign: Translation or Transformation? (London, 1980)
- J. B. Bessinger and S. J. Kahrl, eds., Essential Articles for the Study of Old English Poetry (Hamden, 1968)
- P. Clemoes, Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 12 (Cambridge, 1995)
- R. D. Fulk, ed., Interpretations of Beowulf: A Critical Anthology (Indiana, 1991)
- M. McC. Gatch, ‘Beginnings Continued: a Decade of Studies of Old English Prose’ Anglo-Saxon England 5 (1976), 225-243
- M. McC. Gatch, Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England: Ælfric and Wulfstan (Toronto, 1977)
- M. Godden and M. Lapidge, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature (Cambridge, 1991)
- S. B. Greenfield and D. G. Calder, A New Critical History of Old English Literature (New York, 1986)
- K. O’Brien O’Keeffe, Reading Old English Texts (Cambridge, 1997)
- C. Pasternack, The Textuality of Old English Poetry, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 13 (Cambridge, 1995)
- D. G. Scragg, ed., The Battle of Maldon AD 991 (Oxford, 1991)
- T. A. Shippey, Old English Verse (London, 1972)
- K. Sisam, Studies in the History of Old English Literature (Oxford, 1953)
- E. G. Stanley, ed., Continuations and Beginnings: Studies in Old English Literature (London, 1966)
- P. E. Szarmach and B. F. Huppé, eds., The Old English Homily and its Backgrounds (Albany, 1978)
- P. E. Szarmach, ed., Studies in Earlier Old English Prose (New York, 1986)
- C. Williamson, A Feast of Creatures: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book (London, 1983)
- C. L. Wrenn, A Study of Old English Literature (London, 1967)
Paper 7: Medieval Welsh language and literature
General
- A Guide to Welsh Literature, ed. A. O. H. Jarman and G. R. Hughes, 2 vols (Christopher Davies, Swansea, 1976–9) E151 JAR.
- The Arthur of the Welsh, ed. R. Bromwich and others (Cardiff, 1991).
- Ifor Williams, The Beginnings of Welsh Poetry.
- B. F. Roberts, Studies on Middle Welsh Literature (Lampeter, 1992).
- K. Jackson, The International Popular Tale and Early Welsh Tradition (Cardiff, 1961).
- A. O. H. Jarman, 'The heroic ideal in early Welsh poetry', in Beiträge zur Indogermanistik und Keltologie, ed. W. Meid (Innsbruck, 1967), pp. 193–211.
- Early Welsh Poetry. Studies in the Book of Aneirin, ed. B. F. Roberts (1988) [particularly the essays by Dumville and Koch].
- Ifor Williams, Lectures on Early Welsh Poetry (Dublin, 1944).
- 'Introduction' to Culhwch and Olwen. An Edition and Study of the Oldest Arthurian Tale, ed. R. Bromwich and D. S. Evans (Cardiff, 1992), pp. ix–lxxxiii.
- Ifor Williams (ed.), The Poems of Taliesin, edition translated by J. E. C. Williams (1968), Introduction.
- J. Rowland, Early Welsh Saga Poetry (1990).
- J. E. C. Williams, The Poets of the Welsh Princes (UWP, 1978). 734:25.b.95.1.
- McKenna, The Medieval Welsh Religious Lyric (1991) [see above, Primary Works].
- Rachel Bromwich, Aspects of the Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym (1986).
- A. O. H. Jarman, The Cynfeirdd. Early Welsh Poets and Poetry (Cardiff, 1981). E151 JAR.
Paper 8: Medieval Irish language and literature
- Edel Bhreathnach, Tara: a select bibliography (Dublin, 1995), 1-42
- John Carey, ‘The location of the Otherworld in Irish tradition’, Éigse 19 (1982-3), pp. 36-43
- James Carney, Studies in Irish Literature and History (Dublin, 1955)
- James Carney (ed.), Early Irish Poetry (Cork, 1965)
- Máire Herbert, ‘The world, the text and the critic of Early Irish heroic narrative’, Text and Context III (Autumn, 1988), pp. 1-8
- Máire Herbert, ‘Goddess and king: the sacred marriage in early Ireland’, in Louise Fradenburg (ed.) Women and Sovereignty (Edinburgh, 1992), pp. 264-75
- Fergus Kelly, A Guide to Early Irish Law (Dublin, 1988)
- Proinsias Mac Cana, Literature in Irish (Dublin, 1980)
- Proinsias Mac Cana, The Learned Tales of Medieval Ireland (Dublin, 1980)
- J.P. Mallory (ed.), Aspects of the Táin (Belfast, 1992)
- Kim McCone, Pagan Past and Christian Present in Early Irish Literature (Maynooth, 1990)
- J.F. Nagy, Conversing with Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland (Dublin, 1997)
- Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, The Heroic Biography of Cormac Mac Airt (Dublin, 1977)
- Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, ‘Pagan survivals: the evidence of Early Irish narrative’, in Proinséas Ní Chatháin and Michael Richter (eds), Irland und Europa, Die Kirche im Frühmittelalter: Ireland and Europe, The Early Church (Stuttgart, 1984), pp. 291-307
- Donncha Ó Corráin, Ireland before the Normans (Dublin and London, 1972), especially pp. 28-79
- Donnchadh Ó Corráin, ‘Historical need and literary narrative’, in D. Ellis Evans et al. (eds), Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Celtic Studies, Oxford 1983 (Oxford, 1986), pp. 141-58
- Donnchadh Ó Corráin, ‘Early Irish hermit poetry?’, in Liam Breatnach et al. (eds), Sages, Saints and Storytellers: Celtic Studies in Honour of Professor James Carney (Maynooth, 1989), pp. 251-67
- Philip O’Leary, ‘The honour of women in early Irish literature’, Ériu, 38 (1987), pp. 27-44
- Philip O’Leary, ‘Honour-bound – the social context of early Irish heroic geis’, Celtica, 20 (1988), pp. 85-107
- Thomas F. O’Rahilly, Early Irish History and Mythology (Dublin, 1946)
- Pádraig Ó Riain, ‘Early Irish Literature’ in Glanville Price (ed.), The Celtic Connection (Gerrard’s Cross, 1992), pp. 65-80
- Rudolf Thurneysen, Die irische Helden- und Königsage (Halle, 1921)
- J.C.E. Williams and P.K. Ford, The Irish Literary Tradition (Cardiff, 1992)
Paper 9: Insular Latin language and literature
- Aldhelm: The Prose Works, trans. M. Lapidge and M. Herren ((Cambridge, 1979) and Aldhelm: The Poetic Works, trans. M. Lapidge and J. Rosier (Cambridge, 1985), introductions.
- W.F. Bolton, Anglo-Latin Literature I (Princeton, 1967)
- G.H. Brown, Bede the Venerable (Boston, MA, 1987)
- C.W. Jones, Saints’ Lives and Chronicles in Early England (Ithaca, NY, 1947)
- Columbanus. Studies on the Latin Writings, ed. M. Lapidge (Woodbridge, 1997)
- Gildas: New Approaches, ed. D.N. Dumville and M. Lapidge (Woodbridge, 1984)
- M. Lapidge, ‘The Hermeneutic Style in Tenth-century Anglo-Latin Literature’, Anglo-Saxon England 4 (1975), 67-111
- M. Lapidge, ‘The School of Theodore and Hadrian’, Anglo-Saxon England 15 (1986), pp. 45-72
- M. Lapidge, ‘The Saintly Life in Anglo-Saxon England’, in The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature, ed. M. Godden and M. Lapidge (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 243-63
- Saint Patrick, A.D. 493-1993, ed. D.N. Dumville (Woodbridge, 1993)
- P. Sims-Williams, Religion and Literature in Western England, 600-800 (Cambridge, 1990)