Dante, De vulgari eloquentia (On vernacular eloquence): photocopy.

Augustine, Confessions. Trans. Pine-Coffin. Penguin.

The Song of Roland. Trans. Burgess. Penguin.

Letters of Abelard and Eloise. Trans. Radice. Penguin.

Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances. Trans. Kibler & Carroll. Penguin.

Marie de France, Lais, trans. Burgess & Busby. Penguin.

Dante, Inferno, trans. R. Pinsky. Noonday.

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose. U Press of New England.

Sir Gawain & the Green Knight. Trans. M. Boroff. Norton.

James M. Dean, The World Grown Old in Later Medieval Literature.

Robert Sturges, Medieval Interpretation: Models of Reading in Literary Narrative, 1100-1500.

Handouts as needed, including lists of terms