Further Reading
On the Debate
Ackerman, Robert W. "The Debate of the Body and the Soul and
Parochial Christianity." Speculum 37.4 (Oct., 1962):
541- 65.
Bossy, Michel-Andre. "Medieval Debates of Body and Soul."
Comparative Literature 28.2 (1976): 144-63.
---, ed. and trans. Medieval Debate Poetry: Vernacular Works.
New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1987.
Brent, J. Justin. "From Address to Debate: Generic Considerations
in the Debate Between Soul and Body." Comitatus 32
(2001): 1-18.
Conlee, John W., ed. Middle English Debate Poetry: A Critical
Anthology. East Lansing: Colleagues Press, 1991.
Dudley, Louise. The Egyptian Elements in the Legend of the Body
and Soul. Baltimore: J. H. Furst Company, 1911.
Heningham, Eleanor Kellogg. An Early Latin Debate of the Body
and Soul. Menasha, WI: George Banta Publishing Company, 1937.
Linow, Wilhelm. þe Desputisoun Bitwen þe Bodi and
þe Soule. 1889. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1970.
Moffat, Douglas. The Old English Soul and Body. Cambridge:
D. S. Brewer, 1990.
---, ed. The Soul's Address to the Body: The Worcester Fragments.
East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1987.
Varnhagen, Hermann, ed. Un Samedi Par Nuit. Erlangen: Deichert,
1890.
Woolf, Rosemary. The English Religious Lyric in the Middle Ages.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.
Medieval Educational Practices:
Miller, Joseph M., Michael H. Prosser, and Thomas W. Benson, eds.
Readings in Medieval Rhetoric. Bloomington: Indiana UP,
1973.
Murphy, James J., ed. Medieval Eloquence: Studies in the Theory
and Practice of Medieval Rhetoric. Berkeley: U of California
P, 1978.
On the Manuscripts:
Baugh, Nita Scudder. Worcestershire Miscellany. Philadelphia:
Protat Frères, 1956.
Blake, N. F. "Vernon Manuscript: Contents and Organization."
Studies in the Vernon Manuscript, edited by Derek Pearsall.
45-60. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. 1990.
Doyle, A. I. "Introduction." The Vernon Manuscript:
A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Eng. Poet. a. 1. Cambridge:
D. S. Brewer. 1989.
---, "The Shaping of the Vernon and Simeon Manuscript."
Studies in the Vernon Manuscript, ed. Derek Pearsall. 1-14.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. 1990.
Serjeantson, Mary S. “The Index of the Vernon Manuscript,”
MLA 32 (1937): 222-61.
On Editing and Scribal Practice:
Bryan, Elizabeth J. Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal
Culture. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1999.
Hudson, Anne. "The Variable Text." Crux and Controversy
in Middle English Textual Criticism. Eds. A. J. Minnis and
Charlotte Brewer. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992.
Kristensson, Gillis. "On Middle English Dialectology."
So Meny People, Longages, and Tonges, ed. Michael Benskin
and M. L. Samuels. 3-13. Edinburgh: Michael Benskin & M. L.
Samuels. 1981.
Moorman, Charles. Editing the Middle English Manuscript.
Jackson, MI: UP of Mississippi, 1975.
Links
Middle English Compendium: A collection of Middle English works
based out of the University of Michigan, http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/m/mec/
National Library of Scotland: Provides the entire contents of the
Auchinleck on-line, http://www.nls.uk/auchinleck/
Internet Medieval Sourcebook: A collection on historical and religious
texts based out of Fordham University, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
The Labrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies: Based out of Georgetown
and provides information on a variety of topics based concerning
medieval studies, http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/index.html
University of Virginia's Etext Middle English Collection: Contains
65+ Middle English works online, http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/mideng.browse.html