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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) Medieval Studies BOOKS FOR COURSES 2010 Here is a great selection of Penguin Group (USA)’s of Medieval Studies titles. Click on the 13-digit ISBN to get more information on each title. Examination and personal copy forms are available at the back of the catalog. For personal service, adoption assistance, and complimentary exam copies, sign up for our College Faculty Info Service at http://www.penguin.com/facinfo 2 • TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover design by Jaya Miceli. Table of Contents EARLY MEDIEVAL ENGLAND/ ANGLO-SAXON ERA (A.D. 400-1066) .................................. 3 ENGLAND IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES (A.D. 1066-1300) ....... 3 THE AGE OF ARTHUR .................................................. 4 ENGLAND IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES (A.D. 1300-1499) ........ 5 GEOFFrey CHAUCER................................................... 6 IRELAND, SCOTLAND, & WALES ......................................... 6 THE VIKING AGE/SCANDINAVIA ........................................ 7 FRANCE ......................................................................... 9 SPAIN .......................................................................... 10 GERMANY .................................................................... 10 EASTERN EUROPE & RUSSIA ........................................... 10 ITALY ........................................................................... 11 DANTE ALIGHIERI .................................................... 12 EARLY CHRISTIANITY & THE CRUSADES ........................... 12 BYZANTINE & EARLY OTTOMAN EMPIRES (TURKEY) .......... 14 THE MIDDLE EAST ......................................................... 15 Medieval INDIA ..................................................... 16 THE FAR EAST ............................................................... 16 ANTHOLOGIES & REFERENCE .......................................... 16 COLLEGE FACULTY INFORMATION SERVICE ....................... 18 SCHOOL & PERSONAL COPIES ORDER FORM ..................... 20 EXAMINATION COPY ORDER FORM .................................. 21 For related titles, please see our Classics, Literature, and History catalogs, available for download at us.penguingroup.com/subjectcatalogs MEDIEVAL STUDIES 2010 • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) EARLY MEDIEVAL ENGLAND/ANGLO-SAXON ERA • ENGLAND IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES • 3 EARLY MEDIEVAL Various Jean Anouilh ThE EARLIEST ENGLISh POEmS Becket ENGLAND/ Third Revised Edition Translated by Lucienne Hill ANGLO-SAXON ERA Translated with an Foreword by Andre Aciman (A.D. 400-1066) Introduction by Michael Alexander This play draws from historical events in the Includes Widsith, Deor, Brunanburh and Mal- Norman conquest of England to create a pro- don, and passages from Beowulf; some of the found portrait of a man’s soul. famous ‘riddles’ from The Exeter Book; all the Riverhead • 144 pp. • 978-1-57322-508-3 • $12.00 ‘elegies’, including The Ruin, The Wanderer, Anonymous The Seafarer, The Wife’s Complaint and The A BEOWULF Bede Husband’s Message; and the great Christian ECCLESIASTICAL hISTORY Translated with an poem The Dream of the Rood. Introduction by Burton Raffel OF ThE ENGLISh PEOPLE Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-044594-7 • $15.00 Translated by Leo Sherley-Price New Afterword by Roberta Frank Edited with an Introduction by D. H. Farmer Against a background of feuding and feasting, David Howarth Also includes Bede’s Letter to Egbert and The Beowulf first kills the monster Grendel and 1066: ThE Year of ThE Conquest Death of Bede. her mother, and later defends his people Penguin • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-005850-5 • $14.00 Penguin Classics • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-044565-7 • $15.00 against a dragon in a battle that leaves them both mortally wounded. Harriet Harvey Wood Signet Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-451-53096-7 • $4.95 Bede, Brendan, and Eddius Stephanus • Free Teacher’s Guide available at A ThE Battle OF hASTINGS ThE AGE OF BEdE us.penguingroup.com/tguides The Fall of Anglo-Saxon England Edited with an Introduction by D. H. Farmer Argues that rather than bringing culture and Translated by J. F. Webb and D. H. Farmer Old English Edition enlightenment to England on October 14, Includes The Voyage of St. Brendan, Bede’s Life Edited with an Introduction, 1066, the Normans’ illegal attack destroyed a of Cuthbert and Lives of the Abbots of Wear- Glossary, and Notes by Michael Alexander highly developed civilization. Penguin Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-043377-7 • $14.00 mouth and Jarrow, and Stephanus’s Life of Overlook • 240 pp. • 978-1-59020-276-0 • $26.95 Wilfrid. A Verse Translation Penguin Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-044727-9 • $14.00 Translated with an Introduction by Michael Alexander Joachim Bumke Includes an introduction and notes, bibliog- ENGLAND IN THE Courtly Culture raphy, a map, an index of proper names, and HIGH MIDDLE AGES Literature and genealogical tables. (A.D. 1066-1300) Society in the High Middle Ages Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-044931-0 • $11.00 Translated by Thomas Dunlap A Prose Translation “Examines medieval courtly culture entirely Translated by David Wright anew, bringing to bear upon the presently available material the most modern scholar- Penguin Classics • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-044070-6 • $10.00 Anonymous ALFREd ThE Great ship. The scholarship in this work is not only superior, it is superb.”—Franz Bauml, Uni- Various Asser’s Life of King Alfred versity of California, Los Angeles. A ThE FIRST POEmS IN ENGLISh and Other Contemporary Sources Overlook • 770 pp. • 978-1-58567-051-2 • $24.95 Translated and Edited with an Translated by Simon Keynes Introduction and Notes by Michael Alexander and Michael Lapidge A remarkable collection of the best Old Eng- Along with the title text, this edition includes James Campbell, editor lish poetry that includes both the original text extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; and ThE ANGLO-SAXONS and a verse translation. Alfred’s own writings, laws, and will. “Lucid Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-014395-9 • $28.00 Penguin Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-043378-4 • $15.00 introduction...truly monumental explanatory notes and commentary.”—D. W. Rollanson, University of Durham. Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-044409-4 • $16.00 N denotes new or forthcoming title MEDIEVAL STUDIES 2010 • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 4 • KING ARTHUR The Age Of Arthur Anonymous Adam Ardrey Howard Pyle ThE dEATh OF KING ARThUR A FINdING mERLIN ThE Story of Translated with an The Truth Behind the Legend KING ARThUR ANd hIS KNIGhts Introduction by James Cable of the Great Arthurian mage Afterword by John F. Plummer Le Morte le Roi Artu (falsely ascribed to a “[An] important addition to Arthurian Signet Classics • 416 pp. • 978-0-451-53024-0 • $5.95 Welsh man named Walter Map) forms the last scholarship.”—Kirkus Reviews. part of the Prose Lancelot. Overlook • 384 pp. • 978-1-59020-098-8 • $24.95 John Steinbeck Penguin Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-044255-7 • $15.00 A ThE Acts OF KING ARThUR Sir Thomas Malory ANd hIS NOBLE KNIGhts ThE qUEST OF ThE hOLY GRAIL A LE mORTE d’ARThUR Deluxe Edition Translated by P. M. Matarasso King Arthur and the Foreword by Christopher Paolini Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-044220-5 • $15.00 Legends of the Round Table Edited by Chase Horton Modern English Rendition “Steinbeck embellishes Malory’s spare lan- Retold by Keith Baines guage with a richness of detail that transforms A SIR GAWAIN ANd ThE GREEN KNIGhT Introduction by Robert Graves Translated with a Preface by Burton Raffel the vision.”—John Gardner. New Afterwod by Christopher Cannon Penguin Classics • 416 pp. • 978-0-14-310545-9 • $16.00 New Introduction by Brenda Webster Signet Classics • 576 pp. • 978-0-451-53149-0 • $7.95 Afterword by Neil D. Isaacs Alfred Lord Tennyson Signet Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-451-53119-3 • $6.95 Edited by Janet Cowen IdYLLS OF ThE KING Translated with an This is Caxton’s version of Malory’s treatment Edited by J. M. Gray of the famous medieval legend. Introduction by Bernard O’Donoghue CONTENTS: Idylls of the King: Dedication; The Penguin Classics “O’Donoghue has translated the 14th-century Coming of Arthur; Gareth and Lynette; The Marriage Vol. 1: 528 pp. • 978-0-14-043043-1 • $15.00 Middle English romance with an ear for poetry, Vol. 2: 560 pp. • 978-0-14-043044-8 • $15.00 of Geraint; Geraint and Enid, Balin and Balan; Mer- an eye for detail, and a poet’s understanding of lin and Vivien; Lancelot and Elaine; The Holy Grail; the ways in which the fantastic and the danger- Pelleas and Ettarre; The Last Tournament; Guinev- Chrétien de Troyes ous, the familiar and the imagined, weave their ere; The Passing of Arthur; To the Queen. ARThURIAN ROmANCES way through this extraordinary narrative.... Penguin Classics • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-042253-5 • $15.00 Translated with an The best translation now available.”—John C. Introduction by William W. Kibler Hirsh, Georgetown University. 150th Anniversary Edition Erec and Enide Translated Penguin Classics • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-042453-9 • $10.00 Introduction by Glenn Everett by Carleton W. Carroll Signet Classics • 384 pp. • 978-0-451-52875-9 • $5.95 Translated with an Includes an introduction to the sources and Introduction by Brian Stone contents of the romances and a biographical Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-044092-8 • $10.00 sketch of the author and prose translations of Cligés, Erec and Enide, The Knight of the Cart, Now you can E-mAIL your desk copy request to Edited by J. A. Burrow The Knight with the Lion, and The Story of the Penguin Group (USA)’s Academic marketing Penguin Classics