My Books -- Medieval Britain and Europe
Art & Architecture & Music
Byzantine Illumination.
English Romanesque Illumination.
Henderson, George. Early Medieval.
Boase. T.S.R. English Art 1100-1216.
Bertrand, S. The Bayeux Tapestry.
Nettl, Bruno. Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents.
Rorimer, James. The Cloisters.
Seay, Albert. Music in the Medieval World
Souchal, Genevieve. Masterpieces of Tapestry from the 14th to the 16th century.
The Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry.
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves.
Kaufmann. The Medieval Fortress: castles, forts, and walled cities of the middle ages
The Rohan Master: a Book of hours.
The Book of Kells.
Macaulay, David. Castle.
Dufournet, Jean. Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.
Wilson, Elizabeth. Bibles and Bestiaries A Guide to Illuminated Manuscripts.
Brown, R. Castles: A history and guide.
Sims, Lesley. The Usborne book of Castles.
Macaulay, David. Cathedral: the story of its construction.
Miller, Malcolm. Chartres Cathedral.
Henderson, George. Gothic.
Male, Emile. The Gothic Image.
Les douze capitales d'Armenie
Jantzen, Hans. High Gothic.
Panofsky, Erwin. Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism.
Musee national du moyen age Thermes de Cluny guide.
Toy, Sidney. Castles: their construction and history.
Young, Bonnie. A Walk Through the Cloisters.
Literature & Texts
Geoffrey of Monmouth: The History of the Kings of Britain. Wright, Neil, trans.
Geoffrey of Monmouth. The History of the Kings of Britain.
Kennedy, Charles. An Anthology of Old English Poetry.
Jones, Gwyn, trans. The Mabinogian.
Diamond, Robert. Old English: Grammar and Reader.
various translators. The Sagas of the Icelanders
Speirs, John. Medieval English Poetry: the non-Chaucerian tradition.
Pseudo-Callisthenes. The Romance of Alexander the Great. Wolohojian, Albert.
Luria, Maxwell. Middle English Lyrics.
Magnusson, Magnus, trans. Njal's Saga.
Magnusson, Magnus, trans. The Vinland Sagas: the Norse Discovery of America.
Kennedy, Charles. Early English Christian Poetry.
Cassidy & Ringler. Bright's Old English Grammar & Reader.
Schnur, Harry, trans. Apuleius: The Golden Ass
Dolan, John P., trans. The Essential Erasmus.
Verniero, Joan. Read-Aloud Celtic Myths and Legends.
Harrison, Robert. Gallic Salt: glimpses of the hilarious bawdy world of Old French
fabliaux.
Saint Thomas Aquinas. Philosophical Texts. Gilby, Thomas, trans.
Boethius.Green, Richard, trans. The Consolation of Philosophy.
Brians, ed. Bawdy Tales from the Courts of Medieval France.
Pegis, Anton, ed. Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas.
Jane, L.C. Trans. The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond, Monk of St. Edmundsbury: a picture of
monastic and social life in the XIIth century.
Davis, R.T., ed. Medieval English Lyrics. a critical anthology.
Gardner, John, trans. The Alliterative Morte Arthure, The Owl and the Nightingale, and Five
Other Middle English Poems.
Marie de France. The Lais of Marie de France. Hanning, Robert, trans
Gardner, John, trans. The Complete Works of the Gawain-Poet.
Stone, Brian, trans. Medieval English Verse.
Sisam, Celia. The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse.
Gibbs, A.C., ed. Middle English Romances.
Luquiens, Frederick, trans. The Song of Roland
Salter & Pearsall, ed. Piers Plowman.
Goodridge. J.F., trans. Langland: Piers the Plowman.
Bergin, Thomas. Boccaccio.
Benjamin, Anna, trans. Saint Augustine: On Free Choice of the Will.
Pine-Coffin, R.S., trans. Saint Augustine: Confessions.
Aldington, Richard. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio.
Lewis, C.S. The Discarded Image.
Goodridge, J.F. Langland: Piers the Ploughman.
Stevick, Robert. Five Middle English Narratives.
Lang, Andrew, ed. The Green Fairy Book.
Dunn, Charles. The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun.
Jacobs, Joseph, ed. More English Fairy Tales
Loomis, Roger, trans. Medieval Romances.
Ackerman, Robert. Backgrounds to Medieval English Literature
Horowitz, Anthony. Myths and Legends: a legendary collection from around the world.
Merwin, W.S., trans. Sir Gawain & the Green Knight.
Borroff, Marie, trans. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Ross, James, ed. The Portable Medieval Reader.
Block, K.S. Ludus Coventriae or The Plaie Called Corpus Christi.
Buchanan, James, trans. Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy.
Marozzi, Justin. Tamerlane: sword of Islam, conqueror of the world.
History
Stenton, Doris Mary. English Society in the Early Middle Ages.
Lacey, Robert. The Year 1000: What Life was Like at the Turn of the First
Millennium.
Brooke, Christopher. From Alfred to Henry III: 871-1272.
Daugherty, James. The Magna Charta.
Kelly, Amy. Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings.
McKisack, May. The Fourteenth Century: 1307-1399
Holmes, George. The Oxford History of Medieval Europe.
Turner, Sam. Making a Christian Landscape: the countryside in early medieval Cornwall,
Devon, and Wessex.
O'Brien, Harriet. Queen Emma and the Vikings.
Le Goff, Jacques. Medieval Civilization. 400-1500
Barraclough, Geoffrey. The Crucible of Europe: the 9th and 10th centuries in European history
Dawson, Christopher. Medieval Essays.
White, Lynn Jr. Medieval Technology and Social Change.
Given-Wilson, Chris. Chronicles: the Writing of History in Medieval England.
Erickson, Carolly. The Medieval Vision: essays in history and perception.
Haskins, Charles. The Renaissance of the 12th Century.
Hardison, O.B., Jr. Christian Rite & Christian Drama in the Middle Ages.
Fairweather, Eugene. A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham.
Pirenne, Henri. Medieval Cities: their origins and the revival of trade.
Costain, Thomas. The Conquering Family.
Huizinga, J. The Waning of the Middle Ages.
Bennett. H.S. Life on the English Manor
Cantor, Norman. Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages.
Stuard, Susan. Women in Medieval Society.
Painter, Sidney. French Chivalry.
Stephenson, Carl. Medieaeval Feudalism
Bartlett, Robert. The Hanged Man: a story of miracle, memory, and colonialism in the Middle
Ages.
McEvedy, Colin. The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History.
Bryant, Sir Arthur. The Age of Chivalry: Atlantic Saga
Bloch, Marc. Feudal Society.
McIntyre, Anthony. Medieval Tuscany and Umbria.
Gitlitz, David. The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago.
Baldwin, Marshall. The Mediaeval Church.
Ganshof, F.L. Feudalism.
Costain, Thomas. The Last Plantagenets
Power, Eileen. Medieval People.
Norwich, John. A Short History of Byzantium.
Murrin, Michael. The Marvelous Real. Tableau. Spring-Summer 2007. Marco Polo
Marks, Claud. Pilgrims, Heretics, and Lovers: a medieval journey.
Costain, Thomas. The Magnificent Century
Power, Eileen. Medieval Women.
Myers, A.R. England in the Late Middle Ages
Coulton, G.G. The Medieval Scene.
Platt, Colin. Medieval England: a social history and archaeology from the conquest to 1600.
Wickham, Chris. The Inheritance of Rome