Medieval Celtic Literature: A Select Bibliography

134 Pages·1974·4.612 MB·English

by  Rachel Bromwich

MEDIEVAL CELTIC LITERATURE
A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
TORONTO MEDIEVAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES 5
General editor: John Leyerle
Published in Association with
the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
by University of Toronto Press
RACHEL BROMWICH
Medieval
Celtic Literature
A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
©University of Toronto Press 1974
Toronto and Buffalo
Printed in Canada
Cloth ISBN 0-8020-2170-0
Paper ISBN 0-8020-6252-0
LC 74-82287
CN ISSN 0082-5050
Editor's Preface
The study of the Middle Ages has been developed chiefly within university
departments such as English or History. This pattern is increasingly being
supplemented by an interdisciplinary approach in which the plan of work is
shaped to fit the subject studied. The difference of approach is between
Chaucer the English poet and Chaucer the civil servant of London attached
to the court of Richard II, a man interested in the Ptolemaic universe and
widely read in Latin, French, and Italian. Interdisciplinary programs tend to
lead readers into areas relatively unfamiliar to them where critical biblio-
graphies prepared with careful selectivity by an expert are essential. The
Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto takes such an inter-
disciplinary approach to the Middle Ages, and the need for selective biblio-
graphies has become apparent in our work. The Centre has undertaken to
meet this need by sponsoring the Toronto Medieval Bibliographies.
In his valuable guide, Serial Bibliographies for Medieval Studies * Richard H.
Rouse describes 283 bibliographies; the number is surprisingly large and
indicates the considerable effort now being made to provide inclusive lists of
items relevant to medieval studies. The total amount in print is already vast;
for one unfamiliar with a subject, significant work is difficult to locate and
the problem grows worse with each year's output. The reader may well say,
like the throng m Piers Plowman seeking the way to Treuthe, 'This were a
wikked way but who-so hadde a gyde' (B.vi.1). The Toronto Medieval Biblio-
graphies are meant to be such guides; each title is prepared by an expert and
gives directions to important work in the subject.
*Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 3, University of
California, Los Angeles (Berkeley and Los Angeles 1969)
vi/ Editor's Preface
Each volume gives a list of works selected with three specific aims. One is
to aid students who are relatively new to the area of study, for example
Medieval Celtic Literature. Another is to guide more advanced readers in a
subject where they have had little formal training, for example Medieval
Rhetoric or Latin Literature; and the third is to assist new libraries in forming
a basic collection in the subject presented. Individual compilers are given
scope to organize a presentation that they judge will best suit their subject
and also to make brief critical comments as they think fit. Clarity and useful-
ness of a volume are preferred over any demand for exact uniformity from
one volume to another.
Capetown, July 1974
JL
Contents
Editor's Preface v
Author's Preface x
Abbreviations xv
I
Introductory Material 3
BIBLIOGRAPHIES 3
COLLECTIONS AND SERIES OF TEXTS 5
General 5
Irish 5
Welsh 9
DIPLOMATIC EDITIONS AND FACSIMILES 10
Irish 10
Welsh 12
CATALOGUES OF MANUSCRIPTS AND AIDS TO MANUSCRIPT STUDY 14
Irish 14
Welsh 15
II
Study of Language 18
GRAMMARS AND READERS 18
Irish 18
Welsh 19
Cornish and Breton 20
STUDIES OF MORPHOLOGY, SYNTAX, AND VOCABULARY 20
Irish 21
Welsh 22
DICTIONARIES AND GLOSSARIES 23
Irish 23
Welsh 24
HISTORY OF LANGUAGE 25
Irish and Gaelic 25
Welsh, Breton, and Cornish 27
METRICS AND STUDIES OF POETIC TECHNIQUE 28
Irish 28
Welsh 29
III
Literary History and Criticism 32
GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE 32
IRISH AND GAELIC 34
Literary histories 34
Collected essays and studies of particular aspects of the tradition 35
Poetry 39
Ulster Cycle 42
Fionn Cycle 43
Other tales 43
WELSH 45
Literary histories 45
Collected essays and studies of particular aspects of the tradition 47
The hengerdd or earliest poetry 48
Court poetry circa 1080 to 1282: poetry of the Gogynfeirdd 51
Poetry after the loss of independence, 1282 to circa 1450 54
TheMabinogi and the romances 55
Prose other than romances 58
CELTIC MYTHOLOGY 60
CELTIC ORIGINS OF THE ARTHURIAN LEGEND 62