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John Lydgate, The Temple of Glas: Bibliography

Alan of Lille. Anticlaudianus, or The Good and Perfect Man. Trans. James J. Sheridan. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1973.

The Assembly of Ladies. See The Floure and the Leafe.

Augustine. Concerning the City of God against the Pagans. Trans. Henry Bettenson. New York: Penguin, 1972.

The Bannatyne Manuscript: National Library of Scotland, Advocates' MS. 1.1.6. Intro. Denton Fox and Wil­liam A. Ringler. London: Scolar Press in association with the National Library of Scotland, 1980.

Barthes, Roland. The Pleasure of the Text. Trans. Richard Miller. New York: Hill and Wang, 1975.

Bianco, Susan. “A Black Monk in the Rose Garden: Lydgate and the Dit Amoureux Tradition.” Chaucer Review 34 (1999), 60–68.

———. “New Perspectives on Lydgate’s Courtly Verse.” In Cooney, pp. 95–115.

Boase, Roger. The Origin and Meaning of Courtly Love: A Critical Study of European Scholarship. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1977.

Bodleian Library MS Fairfax 16. Intro. John Norton-Smith. London: Scolar Press, 1979.

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.

Boffey, Julia. “English Dream Poems of the Fifteenth Century and Their French Connections.” In Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture: Selected Papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. Ed. Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994. Pp. 113–21.

———. “‘Forto compleyne she had gret desire’: The Grievances Expressed in Two Fifteenth-Century Dream-Visions.” In Cooney, pp. 116–28.

———. Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions. See Lydgate, The Temple of Glas.

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards. A New Index of Middle English Verse. London: The British Library, 2005.

Brewer, D. S. “The Ideal of Feminine Beauty in Medieval Literature, Especially ‘Harley Lyrics,’ Chaucer, and Some Elizabethans.” Modern Language Review 50 (1955), 257–69.

Bronfman, Judith. Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale: The Griselda Story Received, Rewritten, Illustrated. Garland Studies in Medieval Literature. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994.

Brown, Peter, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Oxford: Ox­ford University Press, 1999.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer. Gen. ed. Larry D. Benson. Third ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987.

Connolly, Margaret. John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.

Cooney, Helen, ed. Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001.

Couormont, André. “Studies on Lydgate’s Syntax in The Temple of Glas.” Bibliothèque de la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Paris 28 (1912), 1–144.

Crockett, Bryan. “Venus Unveiled: Lydgate’s Temple of Glas and the Religion of Love.” In New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems. Ed. David Chamberlain. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993. Pp. 67–93.

Culler, Jonathan. The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univer­sity Press, 1981.

Davidoff, Judith M. Beginning Well: Framing Fictions in Late Middle English Poetry. London: Associated University Presses, 1988.

Davis, Norman, ed. Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971–72.

de Jong, Mayke. In Samuel’s Image: Child Oblation in the Early Medieval West. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.

Duby, Georges. Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages. Trans. Jane Dunnett. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Duffell, Martin J. “Lydgate’s Metrical Inventiveness and His Debt to Chaucer.” Parergon n.s. 18.1 (2000), 227–49.

Dunbar, William. The Complete Works. Ed. John Conlee. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publica­tions, 2004.

Ebin, Lois A. John Lydgate. Boston: Twayne, 1985.

———. Illuminator, Makar, Vates: Visions of Poetry in the Fifteenth Century. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.

Edwards, A. S. G. “Lydgate Manuscripts: Some Directions for Future Research.” In Manuscripts and Readers in Fifteenth-Century England: Essays from the 1981 Conference at the University of York. Ed. Derek Pearsall. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1983. Pp. 15–26.

———. “Lydgate Scholarship: Progress and Prospects.” In Fifteenth-Century Studies. Ed. R. F. Yeager. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1984. Pp. 29–47.

Eisner, Sigmund. The Tristan Legend: A Study in Sources. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1969.

Fallows, D. “Words and Music in Two English Songs of the Mid-Fifteenth Century.” Early Music 5 (1977), 38-43.

The Floure and the Leafe, The Assembly of Ladies, The Isle of Ladies. Ed. Derek Pearsall. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1990.

Fulgentius. Fulgentius the Mythographer. Trans. Leslie George Whitbread. Columbus: Ohio State Uni­versity Press, 1971.

Gower, John. The English Works of John Gower. Ed. G. C. Macaulay. 2 vols. EETS e.s. 81–82. London: Paul Trench, Trübner, and Co., 1900–01; rpt. London: Oxford University Press, 1957.

———. Confessio Amantis. Ed. Russell A. Peck. 3 vols. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000–06. [Vol. 1: Prologue, Books 1 and 8; vol. 2: Books 2–4; vol. 3: Books 5–7.]

Grabes, Herbert. The Mutable Glass: Mirror-Imagery in Titles and Texts of the Middle Ages and English Renaissance. Trans. Gordon Collier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Griffiths, R. A. The Reign of King Henry VI. Second ed. Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1998.

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun. The Romance of the Rose. Trans. Charles Dahlberg. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1986.

———. The Romance of the Rose. Trans. Harry W. Robbins. Ed. Charles W. Dunn. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1962.

Hardman, Phillipa. “Lydgate’s Uneasy Syntax.” In Scanlon and Simpson, pp. 12-35.

Iser, Wolfgang. The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

James I. The Kingis Quair. In The Kingis Quair and Other Prison Poems. Ed. Linne R. Mooney and Mary-Jo Arn. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval institute Publications, 2005. Pp. 17–112.

Jones, Michael. “Catherine (1401–1437).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford Uni­versity Press, 2004.

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

Kruger, Steven F. Dreaming in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Lawton, David. “Dullness and the Fifteenth Century.” ELH 54.4 (Winter 1987), 761–99.

Lerer, Seth. Chaucer and His Readers: Imagining the Author in Late-Medieval England. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.

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

Livy. Livy. Trans. B. O. Foster. 14 vols. Vol. 1: History of Rome, Books I and II. Loeb Classical Library. Cam­bridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1919.

Lydgate, John. A Complaynt of a Loveres Lyfe. In John Lydgate: Poems. Ed. John Norton-Smith. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966. Pp. 47–66 and 160–76.

———. The Fall of Princes. Ed. Henry Bergen. 4 vols. Washington, DC: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1923–27.

———. The Minor Poems of John Lydgate. Ed. Henry Noble MacCracken. 2 vols. EETS e.s. 107, o.s. 192. London: Oxford University Press, 1911–34. Rpt. 1961–62.

———. Reson and Sensuallyte. Ed. Ernst Sieper. 2 vols. EETS e.s. 84 and 89. Bungay: Richard Clay & Sons, 1901–03; rpt. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.

———. The Serpent of Division. Ed. Henry Noble MacCracken. London: Oxford University Press, 1911.

———. The Siege of Thebes. Ed. Robert R. Edwards. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2001.

———. The Temple of Glas. In Lydgate’s Temple of Glas. Ed. J. Schick. EETS e.s. 60. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1891. [Based on MS Tanner 346.]

———. The Temple of Glas. In John Lydgate: Poems. Ed. John Norton-Smith. Clarendon Medieval and Tudor Series. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966. Pp. 67–112, 176–91. [Based on MS Tanner 346.]

———. The Temple of Glas. In Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology. Ed. Julia Boffey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 15–89. [Based on MS Additional 16165.]

———. Troy Book. In Lydgate’s Troy Book, A. D. 1412–20. Ed. Henry Bergen. 4 vols. EETS e.s. 97, 103, 106, and 126. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1906–35. Rpt. as 2 vols. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Co., 1973.

Lynch, K. L. The High Medieval Dream Vision. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988.

MacCracken, Henry Noble. “Additional Light on the Temple of Glas.” PMLA 23 (1908), 128–40.

Macrobius. Commentary on the Dream of Scipio. Trans. William Harris Stahl. New York: Columbia Uni­versity Press, 1952.

Manuscript Bodley 638: A Facsimile. Intro. Pamela Robinson. Facsimile Series of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer 2. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1982.

Manuscript Pepys 2006: A Facsimile. Intro. A. S. G. Edwards. Facsimile Series of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer 6. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1985.

Manuscript Tanner 346: A Facsimile. Intro. Pamela Robinson. Facsimile Series of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer 1. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1980.

Manzalaoui, Mahmoud A. “Lydgate and English Prosody.” In Cairo Studies in English. Ed. M. Wahba. Cairo: Costa Tsoumas, 1960. Pp. 87–104.

Martianus Capella. Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts. Vol. 2: The Marriage of Philology and Mercury. Trans. William Harris Stahl and Richard Johnson, with E. L. Burge. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.

Miskimin, Alice. “Patterns in The Kingis Quair and the Temple of Glas.” Papers on Language and Liter­ature 13 (1977), 339–61.

Moore, Samuel. “Patrons of Letters in Norfolk and Suffolk c. 1450.” PMLA 27 (1912), 188–207.

Norton-Smith, J. “Lydgate’s Changes in the Temple of Glas.” Medium Aevum 27 (1958), 166–72.

Ovid. The Art of Love and Other Poems. Trans. J. M. Mozley; rev. G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979.

———. Fasti. Trans. James George Frazer; rev. G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.

———. Heroides and Amores. Trans. Grant Showerman; rev. G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library. Cam­bridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977.

———. Metamorphoses. Trans. Frank Justus Miller; rev. G. P. Goold. 2 vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Pearsall, Derek. John Lydgate. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970.

———. John Lydgate (1371–1449): A Bio-Bibliography. Victoria: University of Victoria, 1997.

———. “Lydgate as Innovator.” Modern Language Quarterly 53 (1992), 5–22.

The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of Cambridge University Library MS GG. 4.27. Vol. 3. Intro. M. B. Parkes and Richard Beadle. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1980.

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 by W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, and Katharine F. Pantzer. 3 vols. London: Bibliographical Society, 1976–91.

Reimer, Stephen R. “The Canon of John Lydgate: A Progress Report.” A paper presented to The International Congress on the Fifteenth Century, Kaprun bei Salzburg, July, 1995. http://www.ualberta.ca/~sreimer/proj/kaprun.htm

Renoir, Alain. “Attitudes toward Women in Lydgate’s Poetry.” English Studies 42 (1961), 1–14.

———. “The Binding Knot: Three Uses of One Image in Lydgate’s Poetry.” Neophilologus 41 (1957), 202–04.

———. The Poetry of John Lydgate. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.

Renoir, Alain, and C. David Benson. “John Lydgate.” In Severs, Hartung, and Biedler, vol. 6. 1980. Pp. 1809–1920 and 2071–2175.

Robbins, Rossell Hope. Secular Lyrics of the XIV and XV Centuries. Second ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.

Robinson, Ian. Chaucer’s Prosody: A Study of the Middle English Verse Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971.

Russell, J. Stephen. The English Dream Vision: Anatomy of a Form. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1988.

Scanlon, Larry. “Lydgate’s Poetics: Laureation and Domesticity in the Temple of Glass.” In Scanlon and Simpson, pp. 61-97.

Scanlon, Larry, and James Simpson, eds. John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.

Schirmer, Walter F. John Lydgate: A Study in the Culture of the XVth Century. Trans. Ann E. Keep. London: Methuen, 1961.

Seaton, Ethel. Sir Richard Roos, c. 1410–1482, Lancastrian Poet. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961.

Severs, J. Burke, Albert E. Hartung, and Peter G. Biedler, gen. eds. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050–1500. 11 vols. to date. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967–. [Severs is gen. ed. for vols. 1–2; Hartung is gen. ed. for vols. 3–10; Biedler is gen. ed. for vols. 11–.]

Simpson, James. The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 2, 1350–1547: Reform and Cultural Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Spearing, A. C. Medieval Dream-Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

———. Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

———. The Medieval Poet as Voyeur: Looking and Listening in Medieval Love-Narratives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Strickland, Agnes. Lives of the Queens of England. Vol. 3. London: Henry Colburn, 1840.

Symons, Dana M., ed. Chaucerian Dream Visions and Complaints. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2004.

Tinkle, Theresa. Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996.

Torti, Anna. The Glass of Form: Mirroring Structures from Chaucer to Skelton. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991.

Twycross, Meg. The Medieval Anadyomene: A Study in Chaucer’s Mythography. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1972.

Virgil. Vergil. Trans. H. Rushton Fairclough; rev. G. P. Goold. 2 vols. Vol. 1: Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid I–VI; Vol. 2: Aeneid VII–XII. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

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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.

Wilson, Janet. “Poet and Patron in Early Fifteenth-Century England: John Lydgate’s Temple of Glas.” Parergon 11 (1975), 25–32.

Windeatt, B. A., ed. and trans. Chaucer’s Dream Poetry: Sources and Analogues. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1982.