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Siege of Jerusalem: Bibliography

Alliterative Morte Arthure. In King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure. Ed. Larry D. Benson, rev. Edward E. Foster. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1994. [See also Morte Arthure.]

Aquinas, Thomas. Catena aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels, Collected out of the Works of the Fathers by S. Thomas Aquinas. Trans. Mark Pattison, J. D. Dalgrins, and T. D. Ryder. Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1841-45.

Aston, Margaret. "The Impeachment of Bishop Despenser." Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 38 (1965), 127-48.

Augustine, bishop of Hippo. The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustin. In Schaff, A Select Library, vol. 1.

---. St. Augustin's City of God and Christian Doctrine. In Schaff, A Select Library, vol. 2.

---. St. Augustin: Homilies on the Gospel of John; Homilies on the First Epistle of John; Soliloguies. In Schaff, A Select Library, vol. 7.

---. Saint Augustin: Expositions on the Book of Psalms. In Schaff, A Select Library, vol. 8.

The Avowyng of Arthur. In Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales. Ed. Thomas Hahn. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995.

Barnie, John. War in Medieval Society: Social Values and the Hundred Years' War, 1337-99. London: Wiedenfield and Nicolson, 1974.

Bell, David N. A Cloud of Witnesses: An Introductory History of the Development of Christian Doctrine. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Institute Publications, 1989.

---. Many Mansions: An Introduction to the Development and Diversity of Medieval Theology. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Institute Publications, 1996.

Benson, C. David. "A Chaucerian Allusion and the Date of the Alliterative 'Destruction of Troy.'" Notes and Queries 219 (1974), 207.

Benson, Larry D. "The 'Rede Wynde' in 'The Siege of Jerusalem.'" Notes and Queries 205 (1960), 363-64.

Bernard, of Clairvaux. The Works of Bernard of Clairvaux. Vol. 7: Treatises III. Trans. Conrad Greenia. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1977.

Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy. In Boethius. Ed. and trans. H. F. Stewart, E. K. Rand, and S. J. Tester. Loeb Classical Library 74. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973.

Brandon, S. G. F. The Fall of Jerusalem and the Christian Church: A Study of the Effects of the Jewish Overthrow of A. D. 70 on Christianity. London: S. P. C. K., 1951.

Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. Second edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Brewer, Derek. "The Arming of the Warrior in European Literature and Chaucer." In Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives. Ed. Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979. Pp. 221-43.

Bronner, Ethan. "Portent in a Pasture? Appearance of Rare Heifer in Israel Spurs Hopes, Fears." Boston Globe. Sunday, April 6, 1997. Pp. A1, A22.

Brown, Carleton, and Rossell Hope Robbins, eds. The Index of Middle English Verse. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943.

Carter, Henry Holland. A Dictionary of Middle English Musical Terms. Indiana University Humanities Series 45. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1961.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. W. W. Skeat. Second edition. Oxford: University Press, 1899.

---. The Riverside Chaucer. Third edition. Gen. ed. Larry D. Benson. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

The Chester Mystery Cycle. Ed. R. M. Lumiansky and David Mills. 2 vols. EETS s.s. 3, 9. London: Oxford University Press, 1974-86.

Chism, Christine. "The Siege of Jerusalem: Liquidating Assets." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 28 (1998), 309-40.

---. Alliterative Revivals. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. [See chapter 5: "Profiting from Precursors in The Siege of Jerusalem."]

Cleanness. In The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Ed. Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron. Rev. ed. Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1996.

Conzelmann, Hans. History of Primitive Christianity. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1973.

Cursor mundi: A Northumbrian Poem of the XIVth Century in Four Versions. Ed. Richard Morris, et al. EETS 57, 59, 62, 66, 68, 99, 101. London: Oxford University Press, 1961-66.

Cutler, John L., and Rossell Hope Robbins, eds. Supplement to the Index of Middle English Verse. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965.

Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy. Trans., with commentary, Charles S. Singleton. 2nd ed. 3 vols. Bollingen Series 80. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Davis, Paul K. Besieged: An Encyclopedia of Great Sieges from Ancient Times to the Present. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2001.

Day, Mabel. "Strophic Division in Middle English Alliterative Verse." Englische Studien 66 (1931), 245-48.

Dean, James M., ed. Medieval English Political Writings. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996.

Delany, Sheila. Review of Bonnie Millar, The Siege of Jerusalem in its Physical, Literary and Historical Contexts. Speculum 76 (2001), 1081-82.

Destruction of Troy. See The "Gest hystoriale."

Duggan, Hoyt N. "Strophic Patterns in Middle English Alliterative Poetry." Modern Philology 74 (1977), 223-47.

---. "The Shape of the B-Verse in Middle English Alliterative Poetry." Speculum 61 (1986), 564-92. [Argues for a strict ME form of the b-verse.]

---. "The Authenticity of the Z-text of Piers Plowman: Further Notes on Metrical Evidence." Medium Ævum 56 (1987), 25-45.

---. "Final -e and the Rhythmic Structure of the B-Verse in Middle English Alliterative Poetry." Modern Philology 86 (1988), 119-45.

Eusebius, of Caeserea. Ecclesiastical History. Ed. and trans. Kirsopp Lake. Loeb Classical Library 153. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964.

Everett, Dorothy. "The Alliterative Revival." In Essays on Middle English Literature. Ed. Patricia Kean. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955. Pp. 46-96.

Finlayson, John. "Morte Arthure: The Date and a Source for the Contemporary References." Speculum 42 (1967), 624-38.

Florence de Rome. Ed. A. Wallensköld. 2 vols. SATF 98-99. Paris, 1907.

Furneaux, Rupert. The Roman Siege of Jerusalem. New York: D. McKay Co., 1972.

The "Gest hystoriale" of the Destruction of Troy: An Alliterative Romance Translated from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria Troiana" Edited from the Unique Manuscript in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow. Ed. George A. Panton and David Donaldson. EETS o.s. 39, 56. London: N. Trübner, 1869-74.

Gospel of Nicodemus. In The Middle-English Harrowing of Hell and Gospel of Nicodemus. Ed. William Henry Hulme. EETS e.s. 100. London: Oxford University Press, 1907.

Gower, John. Confessio Amantis. Ed. Russell A. Peck, with Latin translations by Andrew Galloway. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000-04.

Gransden, Antonia. Historical Writing in England II: C.1307 to the Early Sixteenth Century. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.

Growth, Peter. "Pontius Pilate." In A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature. Gen. ed. David Lyle Jeffrey. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1992. Pp. 622-24.

Guddat-Figge, Gisela. Catalogue of the Manuscripts Containing Middle English Romances. Munich: W. Fink, 1976.

Hall, Thomas N. "Medieval Traditions about the Site of Judgment." Essays in Medieval Studies 10 (1993), 79-97.

Hamel, Mary. "The Siege of Jerusalem as a Crusading Poem." In Journeys toward God: Pilgrimage and Crusade. Ed. Barbara N. Sargent-Baur. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992. Pp. 177-94.

Hanna, Ralph, III. "Contextualising The Siege of Jerusalem." Yearbook of Langland Studies 6 (1992), 109-21.

---. Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. [See chapter 5: "On Stemmatics."]

---, and David Lawton. See Siege of Jerusalem.

Hebron, Malcolm. The Medieval Siege: Theme and Image in Middle English Romance. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. [See chapter 5: "The Siege of Jerusalem."]

Higden, Ranulf. Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden monachi Cestrensis; Together with the English Translations of John Trevisa and of an Unknown Writer of the Fifteenth Century. Ed. Joseph Rawson Lumby. Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores (Rolls Series) 41. 9 vols. London: Longman & Co., 1865-86.

Hornstein, Lillian Herlands. "Miscellaneous Romances." In A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050-1500. Ed. J. Burke Severs and Albert E. Hartung. 10 vols. to date. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967-.

Hulbert, J. R. "The Text of The Siege of Jerusalem." Studies in Philology 28 (1930), 602-12.

Jacobs, Nicholas. "Alliterative Storms: A Topos in Middle English." Speculum 47 (1972), 695-719.

Jacobus de Voragine. Legenda aurea. Ed. Johan Georg Theodor Grässe. Dresden: Impensis Librariae Arnoldianae, 1846.

---. The Golden Legend. Trans. Granger Ryan and Helmut Ripperger. New York: Arno Press, 1969.

---. Legenda aurea: Edizione critica. Ed. Giovanni Paolo Maggioni. 2 vols. Rev. ed. Millennio Medievale 6, Testi 3. Florence: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1998.

Josephus, Flavius. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Trans. William Whiston. Baltimore: Armstrong and Plaskitt, 1830.

Kaluza, Max. "Strophische Gliederung in der mittelenglischen rein alliterirenden Dichtung." Englische Studien 16 (1892), 169-80.

Keen, Maurice H. The Laws of War in the Late Middle Ages. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965.

Keiser, George R. "Edward III and the Alliterative Morte Arthure." Speculum 48 (1973), 37-51.

King Edward and the Shepherd. In Middle English Metrical Romances. Eds. Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930.

Knighton, Henry. Knighton's Chronicle, 1337-1396. Ed. and trans. Geoffrey Howard Martin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Kölbing, Eugen, and Mabel Day. See Siege of Jerusalem.

Langland, William. Piers Plowman: The A Version, Will's Visions of Piers Plowman and Do-Well. Ed. George Kane. London: Athlone Press, 1960.

Large, David Clay. Between Two Fires: Europe's Path in the 1930s. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1990.

Lawton, David. "Titus Goes Hunting and Hawking: The Poetics of Recreation and Revenge in The Siege of Jerusalem." In Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry. Ed. O. S. Pickering. Woodbridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 1997.

---. "Sacrilege and Theatricality: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33 (2003), 281-309.

Lindberg, Carter. The European Reformations. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

Livingston, Michael. "The Seven: Hebrews, Hellenists, and Heptines." Journal of Higher Criticism 6 (1999), 32-63.

Maidstone, Richard. Richard Maidstone's Penitential Psalms: Ed. from Bodl. MS Rawlinson A 389. Ed. Valerie Edden. Middle English Texts 22. Heidelberg: C. Winter Universitäts-verlag, 1990.

---. Concordia (The Reconciliation of Richard II with London). Ed. David R. Carlson, with verse translation by A. G. Rigg. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2003.

Mandeville, John. The Defective Version of Mandeville's Travels. Ed. M. C. Seymour. EETS o.s. 319. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Matthews, William. The Tragedy of Arthur: A Study of the Alliterative "Morte Arthure." Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.

McIntosh, Angus, M. L. Samuels, and Michael Benskin, eds., with the assistance of Margaret Laing and Keith Williamson. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. 4 vols. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1986.

Mézières, Philippe de. Letter to King Richard II: A Plea made in 1395 for Peace between England and France. Ed. and trans. G. W. Coopland. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1975.

Middle English Dictionary. Gen. eds. Hans Kurath and Sherman M. Kuhn. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1952-2003.

The Middle English Prose Translation of Roger d'Argenteuil's Bible en françois: Edited from Cleveland Public Library, MS Wq091.92-C.468. Ed. Phyllis Moe. Middle English Texts 6. Heidelberg: Winter, 1977.

Millar, Bonnie. "The Role of Prophecy in the Siege of Jerusalem and Its Analogues." Yearbook of Langland Studies 13 (1999), 153-78.

---. The Siege of Jerusalem in Its Physical, Literary and Historical Contexts. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000.

Mercer Dictionary of the Bible. Gen. ed. Watson E. Mills. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1990.

Moe, Phyllis. "The French Source of the Alliterative Siege of Jerusalem." Medium Ævum 39 (1970), 147-54.

Morey, James. Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Morte Arthure: A Critical Edition. Ed. Mary Hamel. Garland Medieval Texts 9. New York: Garland Publishing, 1984. [Discusses the dating of the Siege and its relationship to the Alliterative Morte Arthure, pp. 46-58. See also Alliterative Morte Arthure.]

Mum and the Sothsegger. In Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger. Ed. James M. Dean. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000.

Neilson, George. "Huchown of the Awle Ryale," the Alliterative Poet. Glasgow: James MacLehose & Sons, 1902.

Nicholson, Roger. "Haunted Itineraries: Reading the Siege of Jerusalem." Exemplaria 14 (2002), 447-84.

Oakden, J. P., with Elizabeth R. Innes. Alliterative Poetry in Middle English: A Survey of the Traditions. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1935. [See pp. 44-46 and 85-111.]

Oxford Classical Dictionary. Third edition. Ed. Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Oxford English Dictionary. Second edition. Ed. J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.

Palmer, J. J. N. England, France and Christendom, 1377-99. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972.

Parlement of the Thre Ages. In Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages. Ed. Warren Ginsburg. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.

Patience. See Cleanness.

Pearsall, Derek. Old English and Middle English Poetry. London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1977.

Peck, Russell A. "Willfulness and Wonders: Boethian Tragedy in the Alliterative Morte Arthure." In The Alliterative Tradition in the Fourteenth Century. Ed. Bernard S. Levy and Paul E. Szarmach. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1981. Pp. 153-82.

---. "Social Conscience and the Poets." In Social Unrest in the Late Middle Ages. Ed. Francis X. Newman. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 39. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1986. Pp. 113-48.

Perroy, Édouard. L'Angleterre et le Grand Schisme d'Occident: Étude sur la Politique Religieuse de l'Angleterre sous Richard II (1378-99). Paris: J. Monnier, 1933.

Pollard, Alfred W., and G. R. Redgrave. A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640. Second ed., rev. and enlarged. 3 vols. London: Bibliographical Society, 1976-91.

Pratt, John H. Chaucer and War. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000.

Price, Merrall Llewelyn. "Imperial Violence and the Monstrous Mother: Cannibalism at the Siege of Jerusalem." In Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts. Ed. Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. Pp. 272-98.

Price, Patricia. "Integrating Time and Space: The Literary Geography of Patience, Cleanness, The Siege of Jerusalem, and St. Erkenwald." Medieval Perspectives 11 (1996), 234-50.

Rhoads, David M. Israel in Revolution, 6-74 C. E.: A Political History Based on the Writings of Josephus. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976.

Saul, Nigel. Richard II. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.

Scattergood, V. J. "Chaucer and the French War: Sir Thopas and Melibee." In Court and Poet: Selected Proceedings of the International Courtly Literature Society [Liverpool 1980]. Ed. Glyn S. Burgess. Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1981. Pp. 287-96.

Schaff, Philip, et al., ed. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church. 14 vols. New York: Christian Literature, 1886-90; rpt. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1991-97.

Schermann, Theodorus. Prophetarum Vitae Fabulosae: Indices Apostolorum Discipulorumque. Leipzig: Teubneri, 1907.

The Siege of Jerusalem. Ed. Eugen Kölbing and Mabel Day. EETS o.s. 188. London: Oxford University Press, 1932. [Based on copy L.]

---. Ed. Thorlac Turville-Petre. In Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages: An Anthology. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1989. Pp. 158-69. [Based on copy D, but limited to lines 521-724.]

---. Ed. Ralph Hanna and David Lawton. EETS o.s. 320. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. [Based on copy L.]

The Siege of Jerusalem in Prose. Ed. Auvo Kurvinen. Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki 34. Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, 1969.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. See Cleanness.

Sir Perceval of Galles. In Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain. Ed. Mary Flowers Braswell. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995.

Spearing, A. C. Readings in Medieval Poetry. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Stillwell, Gardiner. "Wynnere and Wastoure and the Hundred Years' War." English Literary History 8 (1941), 241-47.

---. "The Political Meaning of Chaucer's Tale of Melibee." Speculum 19 (1944), 433-44.

Sumption, Jonathan. Pilgrimage: An Image of Mediaeval Religion. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975.

Sundwall, McKay. "The Destruction of Troy, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and Lydgate's Troy Book." Review of English Studies, n.s. 26 (1975), 313-17.

Sutton, John William. "Mordred's End: A Reevaluation of Mordred's Death Scene in the Alliterative Morte Arthure." Chaucer Review 37 (2003), 280-85.

Taylor, John. The "Universal Chronicle" of Ranulf Higden. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.

Tilley, Morris Palmer. A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950.

Tipton, Charles. "The English at Nicopolis." Speculum 37 (1962), 528-40.

Titus and Vespasian, or, the Destruction of Jerusalem in Rhymed Couplets. Ed. John Alexander Herbert. Roxburghe Club 146. London: The Roxburghe Club, 1905.

The Towneley Plays: Re-edited from the Unique MS. Ed. George England. EETS e.s. 71. London: Oxford University Press, 1897; rpt. 1952.

Turville-Petre, Thorlac. The Alliterative Revival. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 1977.

Usk, Adam. The Chronicle of Adam Usk, 1377-1421. Ed. and trans. C. Given-Wilson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

Van Court, Elisa Narin. "The Siege of Jerusalem and Augustinian Historians: Writing about Jews in Fourteenth-Century England." Chaucer Review 29 (1995), 227-48.

La Vengeance de Nostre-Seigneur: The Old and Middle French Prose Versions. Ed. Alvin E. Ford. 2 vols. Studies and Texts 63, 115. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1984-1993. [The first volume discusses and edits families A and B of the French tradition; the second volume completes the study by discussing and editing families C to I.]

La Venjance Nostre Seigneur: The Oldest Version of the Twelfth-century Poem. Ed. Loyal A. T. Gryting. Contributions in Modern Philology 19. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1952.

Vindicta salvatoris. In Evangelia apocrypha. Ed. Constantine Tischendorf. Leipzig: H. Mendelssohn, 1876. [This edition includes the Latin text based on London, British Library MS Harley 495, pp. 471-86.]

The Wakefield Pageants in the Towneley Cycle. Ed. A. C. Cawley. Old and Middle English Texts 1. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1958.

Waldron, Ronald A. "Oral-Formulaic Technique and Middle English Alliterative Poetry" Speculum 32 (1957), 792-804.

The Wars of Alexander: An Alliterative Romance Translated Chiefly from the Historia Alexandri Magni de preliis; Re-edited from Ms. Ashmole 44, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and Ms. D.4.12, in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. Ed. Walter W. Skeat. EETS e.s. 47. London: N. Trübner, 1886.

---. Ed. Hoyt N. Duggan and Thorlac Turville-Petre. EETS s.s. 10. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Whiting, Bartlett Jere, with the collaboration of Helen Wescott Whiting. Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases from English Writings Mainly before 1500. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968.

Wright, Stephen K. The Vengeance of Our Lord: Medieval Dramatizations of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Studies and Texts 89. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1989.

Wynnere and Wastoure. See The Parlement of the Thre Ages.

Yeager, R. F. "Pax Poetica: On the Pacifism of Chaucer and Gower." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 9 (1987), 97-121.

The York Plays: The Plays Performed by the Crafts or Mysteries of York on the Day of Corpus Christi in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries. Ed. Lucy Toulmin Smith. New York: Russell & Russell, 1963.