Recommended Readings

Fiction and Criticism

Non Fiction

1.  The Riverside Chaucer (Anthology)

2.  The Metamorphose (Ovid)

3.  English Sixteenth Century Verse 

  (Richard S. Sylvester)

 

4.  Medieval Romances (Sherman Lewis,

     Laura Loomis)

 

5.  Middle English Debate Poetry (John W.

     Conlee)

 

6.  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

     (Translated by James Winny)

 

7.  Gargantua and Pantagruel (Francois

     Rabelais)

 

8.  The Arthurian Tradition (John

     Matthews)

 

9.  Chaucer: Sources and Backgrounds

     (Robert P. Miller)

10. The Riverside Shakespeare (Anthology)

11. Arthurian Romance (Chretien De

      Troyes)

12.  Bulfinch's Mythology 

13.   The Fairy Queen (Spencer) 

14.  Le Morte D' Arthur (Sir Thomas

       Malory)

15.  Utopia (Sir Thomas Moore)

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. The Flowering of the Middle Ages (Joan

     Evans)

2. The Age of Chivalry (Nigel Saul)

3.  Masters of Italian Art: Botticelli

     (Alexandra  Gromling)

 

4.  Northern Renaissance Art (James

     Snyder)

 

5.  Chronicles of the Age of Chivalry

     (Elizabeth Hallam)

 

6.  Michelangelo (Lamarche)

 

7.  The Christian Oracles (The Bible)

 

8. The Consolation of Philosophy

    (Boethius)

 

9.  The Confessions of St. Augustine

 

10.  The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli)

 

11.  Essays (Michel De Montaine)

 

12.  Medieval People (Eileen Power)

 

13.  Secrets of the Middle Ages (James

       Harpur and Elizabeth Hallam

 

14.  Plato's Republic (Plato)

 

15.  Art of the Italian Renaissance (Rolf

       Toman)

 

16.  A Defense of Poetry (Sir Phillip

       Sidney)

 

17.  The History of the Kings of Britian

       (Geoffrey of Monmouth)

 

 

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