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The French Balades: Bibliography

Alain of Lille. The Plaint of Nature. Trans. James J. Sheridan. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1980.

Alghieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy. Ed. Charles S. Singleton. 6 vols. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970–77.

Allen, Hope Emily. “The Authorship of the Prick of Conscience.” In Studies in English and Comparative Literature. Boston: Ginn, 1910. Pp. 115–70.

———. “The Speculum Vitae: Addendum.” PMLA 32 (1917), 133–62.

———. Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole and Materials for His Biography. New York: D. C. Heath, 1927.

Allison, K. J., ed. A History of the County of York, East Riding. Vol. 1. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.

Andreas Capellanus. The Art of Courtly Love. Trans. John Jay Parry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959.

Aquinas, Thomas. S. Thomae Aquinatis opera omnia. Ed. Roberto Busa. 7 vols. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Fromman-Holzboog, 1980.

Audiau, Jean. Les Troubadours et l’Angleterre: contribution à l’étude des poètes anglais de l’amour au moyen-âge (XIIIe et XIVe siècles). Paris: Vrin, 1927.

Barber, Malcolm. The Cathars: Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages. Harlow: Longman, 2000.

Baugh, Albert C., and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. London: Routledge, 2002.

Benoît de Sainte-More. Le Roman de Troie. Ed. Léopold Constans. 6 vols. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1904–12.

The Bestiary: A Book of Beasts. Trans. T. H. White. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1954.

Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy. Trans. Richard Green. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1962.

Boffey, Julia. “‘Cy ensuent trios chaunceons’: Groups and Sequences of Middle English Lyrics.” In Medieval Texts in Context. Ed. Graham D. Caie and Denis Renevey. London: Routledge, 2008. Pp. 85–95.

Braddy, Haldeen. Chaucer and the French Poet, Graunson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1947.

Burrows, T. N. “The Geography of Monastic Property in Medieval England: A Case Study of Nostell and Bridlington Priories (Yorkshire).” Yorkshire Archaeolgical Journal 57 (1985), 79–86.

Burton, Janet. The Monastic Order in Yorkshire, 1069–1215. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Butterfield, Ardis. Poetry and Music in Medieval France: From Jean Renart to Guillaume de Machaut. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer. Third edition. Ed. Larry D. Benson. Boston: Houghton Miff­lin, 1987.

Coleman, Joyce. “Lay Readers and Hard Latin: How Gower May Have Intended the Confessio Amantis to Be Read.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 24 (2002), 209–35.

Colvin, H. M. The White Canons in England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951.

Dan Michel. Ayenbite of Inwyt, or Remorse of Conscience. Ed. Richard Morris and Pamela Gradon. 2 vols. EETS o.s. 23 and 278. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965–79.

De planctu Naturae. See Alain of Lille, The Plaint of Nature.

Deschamps, Eustache. Oeuvres Complètes de Eustache Deschamps. Ed. le Marquis de Queux de Saint-Hilaire and Gaston Raynaud. 11 vols. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1878–1903.

———. L’Art de Dictier. Ed. and trans. Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi. East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1994.

Dickinson, J. C. The Origins of the Austin Canons and Their Introduction into England. London: S.P.C.K., 1950.

Echard, Siân. “Designs for Reading: Some Manuscripts of Gower’s Confessio Amantis.” Trivium 31 (1999), 59–72.

Echard, Siân, and Claire Fanger. The Latin Verses in the Confessio Amantis: An Annotated Translation. East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1991.

Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem. Ed. W. Walther Boer. Meisenheim: Anton Hain, 1973.

Evans, Joan, and Mary S. Sergeantson, eds. English Mediaeval Lapidaries. EETS o.s. 190. London: Oxford University Press, 1933.

The Exeter Book Riddles. Ed. and trans. Kevin Crossley-Holland. Cambridge: Brewer, 1989.

Fisher, John H. John Gower: Moral Philosopher and Friend of Chaucer. New York: New York University Press, 1964.

———. The Emergence of Standard English. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Gower, John. The Complete Works of John Gower. Ed. G. C. Macaulay. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1899–1902.

———. The Major Latin Works of John Gower: The Voice of One Crying and the Tripartite Chronicle. Trans. Eric W. Stockton. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1962.

———. Mirour de l’Omme (The Mirror of Mankind). Trans. William Burton Wilson. East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1992.

———. Confessio Amantis. Ed. Russell A. Peck, with Latin translations by Andrew Galloway. 3 vols. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000–06.

———. The Minor Latin Works. Ed. and trans. R. F. Yeager, with In Praise of Peace, ed. Michael Livingston. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2005.

Gratian. The Treatise on Laws (Decretum DD. 1–20). Trans. Augustine Thompson, with The Ordinary Gloss, trans. James Gordley. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1993.

Greimas, A. J. Dictionnaire de l’ancien français jusqu’au milieu du XIVe siècle. Paris: Larousse, 1968.

Guido delle Colonne. Historia destructionis Troiae. Trans. Mary Elizabeth Meek. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun. Le Roman de la Rose. Ed. Félix Lecoy. 3 vols. Paris: Librairie Honoré, 1970–74.

Hanna, Ralph. London Literature, 1300–1380. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Hill, John. An History of Animals. London: Thomas Osborne, 1752.

Holmes, Edmond. The Holy Heretics: The Story of the Albigensian Crusade. London: Watts, 1948.

The Holy Bible Translated from the Latin Vulgate and Diligently Compared with Other Editions in Divers Languages (Douai, A.D. 1609; Rheims, A.D. 1582) Published as Revised and Annotated by Authority. London: Burns and Oates, 1964.

Homer. The Iliad of Homer. Trans. Richmond Lattimore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.

Hyginus. Hygini Fabulae. Ed. Peter K. Marshall. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1993.

Isidore of Seville. The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. Ed. Stephen A. Barney, W. J. Lewis, J. A. Beach, and Oliver Berghof. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Itô, Masayoshi. John Gower, the Medieval Poet. Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976.

Kar, G. Thoughts on the Mediæval Lyric. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1933.

Kelly, Henry Ansgar. Love and Marriage in the Age of Chaucer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975.

Kirby, J. L. Henry IV of England. London: Constable, 1970.

Kittredge, George Lyman. The Date of Chaucer’s Troilus and Other Chaucer Matters. London: K. Paul, Trench, and Trübner, 1909.

Kuczynski, Michael P. “Gower’s Virgil.” In On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium. Ed. R. F. Yeager. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007. Pp. 161–87.

Lapidaries. See Evans and Sergeantson.

Lawless, George. Augustine of Hippo and His Monastic Rule. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.

Lewis, C. S. The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936.

Loomis, Roger Sherman, and Laura Hibbard Loomis, eds. Medieval Romances. New York: Random House, 1957.

MacCracken, Henry Noble. “Quixley’s Ballades Royal (?1402).” Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 20 (1909), 33–50.

Machan, Tim William. English in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Machaut, Guillaume de. Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut. Ed. Ernest Hoepffner. 3 vols. Paris: Firmin- Didot, 1908–21.

Matthew, H. C. G., and Brian Harrison, eds. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: from the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

McIntosh, Angus, M. L. Samuels, and Michael Bensken, eds. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. 4 vols. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1986.

The Middle English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle. Ed. Vincent DiMarco and Leslie Perelman. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1978.

Morrin, Margaret J. John Waldeby, OSA, c. 1315–c. 1372: English Augustinian Preacher and Writer, with a Critical Edition of His Tract on the “Ave Maria.” Rome: Analecta Augustiniana, 1975.

Nicholson, Peter. “The Dedications of Gower’s Confessio Amantis.” Mediaevalia 10 (1984), 159–80.

———. Love and Ethics in Gower’s Confessio Amantis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Ovid. Heroides and Amores. Ed. and trans. Grant Showerman, rev. G. P. Goold. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986.

———. Fasti. Ed. and trans. James George Frazer, rev. G. P. Goold. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.

———. Metamorphoses. Ed. and trans. F. J. Miller, rev. G. P. Goold. 2 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Peterson, Ingrid J. William of Nassington: Canon, Mystic and Poet of the Speculum Vitae. New York: Peter Lang, 1986.

Physiologus. Trans. Michael J. Curley. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979.

Pliny. Natural History. Ed. and trans. Henry Rackham. 10 vols. London: Heineman, 1938–62.

Pope, M. K. From Latin to Modern French with Especial Consideration of Anglo-Norman: Phonology and Morphology. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1952.

Raynaud, Gaston, ed. Les Cent Ballades, poème du XIVe siècle. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1905.

Richardson, Robert. Commentary on the Rule of St. Augustine by Robertus Richardinus. Ed. G. G. Coulton. Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1935.

Robert of Bridlington. The Bridlington Dialogue: An Exposition of the Rule of St. Augustine for the Life of the Clergy, Given through a Dialogue between Master and Disciple. London: Mowbray, 1960.

Roman de la Rose. See Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun.

Salter, H. E. Chapters of the Augustinian Canons. London: Canterbury and York Society, 1922.

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. Harold Jenkins. New York: Methuen, 1982.

———. The Second Part of King Henry IV. Ed. A. R. Humphreys. London: Methuen, 1966.

Short, Ian. Manual of Anglo-Norman. London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2007.

Stevens, Martin. “The Royal Stanza in Early English Literature.” PMLA 94 (1979), 62–76.

Strohm, Paul. “Some Generic Distinctions in the Canterbury Tales.” Modern Philology 68 (1971), 321–28.

Thompson, Raymond H., and Keith Busby, eds. Gawain: A Casebook. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Virgil. The Aeneid. Trans. Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Random House, 1981.

Warton, Thomas, ed. The History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. 4 vols. London: Reeves and Turner, 1870–71.

Whiting, Bartlett Jere. Chaucer’s Use of Proverbs. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1934.

Wilkins, Ernest H. Petrarch’s Later Years. Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1959.

Willard, Charity Cannon. Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Works. New York: Persea Books, 1984.

Wimsatt, James I. Chaucer and His French Contemporaries: Natural Music in the Fourteenth Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.

———, ed. Chaucer and the Poems of “Ch.” Revised Edition. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2009.

Yeager, R. F. “English, Latin, and the Text as ‘Other’: The Page as Sign in the Work of John Gower.” Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship 3 (1987), 251–67.

———. John Gower’s Poetic: The Search for a New Arion. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990.

———.“Gower’s Lancastrian Affinity: The Iberian Connection.” Viator 35 (2004), 483–515.

———.“John Gower’s Audience: The Ballades.” Chaucer Review 40 (2005), 81–105.