Middle English Reading Group

All are welcome to come along, at whatever reading level you are; no familiarity with Middle English is required.

To be added to the mailing list for notices please email Andrew Stephenson: andrewws@unimelb.edu.au.

Resources

Online Middle English Dictionary

Middle English Basic Pronunciation and Grammar

An Introduction to Middle English - California State University site

J. A. Burrow and Thorlac Turville-Petre, A Book of Middle English, Blackwell 1992, 2nd ed. 1996.

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be on Monday 12 June, 11:00-12:00 via Zoom.  Email andrewws@unimelb.edu.au for connection details.

We’re reading ‘Troilus and Criseyde’ by Chaucer, continuing Book V from line 141.  If you need an online version several are available, including:

• Project Gutenberg
• Poetry in Translation - Modern English version
• DjVu Editions

Previous Texts

The Middle English Reading Group started in 2002. Since then we have read:

• Psalm 23
• Ywain and Gawain
• Bevis of Hampton
• William Caxton's 'Golden Legend'
• The Man of Law's Tale
• The Shepherds’ Play (N-Town Cycle)
• Sir Thopas
• The Awntyrs off Arthur
• Confessio Amantis
• Hoccleve’s Letter of Cupid
• Patience
• The Owl and the Nightingale
• Polychronicon
• The Brut of England
• King Horn
• Alliterative Morte Arthure
• Piers Plowman
• The Parlement of the Thre Ages
• Wynnere and Wastoure
• The Book of the Duchess
• Sir Launfal
• Havelok the Dane
• Pearl
• The Summoner’s Tale
• The Friar’s Tale
• The Second Shepherds’ Play (Towneley Cycle)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Sir Orfeo
• The Reeve’s Tale