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Filed under: Literature, Medieval

The Complete Works of John Gower (4 volumes, in French, English, and Latin; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1899-1902), by John Gower, ed. by G. C. Macaulay
Legends and Satires From Mediaeval Literature, ed. by Martha Hale Shackford (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
Vassar Mediaeval Studies, by Members of the Faculty of Vassar College (New Haven et al.: Yale University Press, 1923), ed. by Christabel Forsyth Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Literature, Medieval -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries

A Dictionary of Medieval Romance And Romance Writers (London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1913), by Lewis Spence (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Literature, Medieval -- Book reviews -- Periodicals

The Medieval Review (1993-) (partial serial archives)

Filed under: Literature, Medieval -- Classical influences

Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Ann W. Astell (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

Filed under: Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism

Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Karen L. Fresco and Anne D. Hedeman (PDF at Ohio State)
How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Karl Steel (PDF at Ohio State)
Willing to Know God: Dreamers and Visionaries in the Later Middle Ages (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Jessica Barr (PDF at Ohio State)
The Honeysuckle and the Hazel Tree: Medieval Stories of Men and Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), ed. by Patricia Terry (HTML at UC Press)
Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England (Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, c2013), ed. by Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway (PDF files at Project MUSE)
The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1985), by Jesse M. Gellrich (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
The Medieval Saga (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Carol J. Clover (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Michael Bryson and Arpi Movsesian (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature (London: Macmillan, 1931), by W. P. Ker (Gutenberg text)
The Idea of the Labyrinth From Classical Antiquity Through the Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1990), by Penelope Reed Doob (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
Angevin Britain and Scandinavia (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature v6; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921), by Henry Goddard Leach (page images at HathiTrust)
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature v2; London and Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1897), by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text and page images)
Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Aldo D. Scaglione (HTML at UC Press)
La Mujer en Los Libros de Caballerías (in Spanish; 1917), by Eduardo de Laiglesia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
From Ritual to Romance, by Jessie L. Weston
- HTML at sacred-texts.com
- Gutenberg text
Kleinere Schriften (3 volumes, in German; Weimar: E. Felber, 1898-1900), by Reinhold Köhler, ed. by Johannes Bolte

Filed under: Literature, Medieval -- Periodicals

Le Moyen Âge (in French) (partial serial archives)
Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes (in French) (partial serial archives)

Filed under: Literature, Medieval -- Religious aspects -- Christianity

St. Patrick's Purgatory: An Essay on the Legends of Purgatory, Hell, and Paradise, Current During the Middle Ages (London: John Russell Smith, 1844), by Thomas Wright (multiple formats at Google)

Filed under: Literature, Medieval -- Roman influences

Vergil in the Middle Ages (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895), by Domenico Comparetti, trans. by E. F. M. Benecke, contrib. by Robinson Ellis (page images at Google)

Filed under: Literature, Medieval -- Stories, plots, etc.

Legends of the Middle Ages, Narrated With Special Reference to Literature and Art (1896), by H. A. Guerber (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Literature, Medieval -- Translations into English

Song and Legend from the Middle Ages, ed. by William D. MacClintock and Porter Lander MacClintock (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

Filed under: Literature

Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Literature -- Aesthetics

Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)

Filed under: Literature -- Anecdotes

Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

Filed under: Literature -- Bibliography

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Literature -- Collections

Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
- page images at HathiTrust
- without volume 50 ("Editor's Introduction..."): HTML at Bartleby
The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
Oriental Literature (4 volumes in The Worlds Great Classics, revised editions; New York and London: Colonial Press, c1899-1900), ed. by Richard J. H. Gottheil and Epiphanius Wilson

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