A number of resources are referred to by abbreviation throughout this book:
LALME = McIntosh, Angus, M. L. Samuels, and Michael Benskin, eds., with the assistance of Margaret Laing and Keith Williamson. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. 4 vols. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1986.
Manual = Severs, J. Burke, Albert E. Hartung, and Peter G. Beidler, eds. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050–1500. 11 vols. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967–2005.
MED = Kurath, Hans, and Sherman M. Kuhn, eds. Middle English Dictionary. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1954–2000.
NCE = The New Catholic Encyclopedia. Ed. Berard L. Marthaler et al. Second ed. 15 vols. Detroit, MI: Thomson/Gale, 2003.
NIMEV = Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards. A New Index of Middle English Verse. London: British Library, 2005.
ODNB = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed., Jan. 2008.
OED = The Oxford English Dictionary. Second ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
RSTC = Pollard, A. W., and G. R. Redgrave. A Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475–1640. Second ed. Rev. W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, and Katharine F. Pantzer. 3 vols. London: Bibliographical Society, 1976–91.
Whiting = Whiting, Bartlett Jere, with the collaboration of Helen Wescott Whiting. Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases from English Writings Mainly before 1500. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968.
The Anglo-Norman Text of “Le Lai du cor.” Ed. C. T. Erickson. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1973.
Arber, Edward, ed. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554–1640. 2 vols. New York: Peter Smith, 1950.
Baldwin, F. E. Sumptuary Legislation and Personal Regulation in England. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1926.
The Bannatyne Manuscript: National Library of Scotland, Advocates' MS.1.1.6. Introduced by Denton Fox and W. A. Ringler. London: Scolar Press in association with the National Library of Scotland, 1980.
Bawcutt, Priscilla. “Scottish Manuscript Miscellanies from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century.” English Manuscript Studies 1100–1700 12 (2005), 46–73.
Birrel, Jean R. “The Medieval English Forest.” Journal of Forest History 24 (1980), 78–85.
Blanchfield, Lynne S. “The Romances in MS Ashmole 61: An Idiosyncratic Scribe.” In Romance in Medieval England. Ed. Maldwyn Mills, Jennifer Fellows, and Carol Meale. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991. Pp. 65–87.
———. “Rate Revisited: The Compilation of Narrative Works in MS Ashmole 61.” In Romance Reading on the Book. Ed. J. Fellows et al. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1996. Pp. 208–20.
Bloch, R. Howard. Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Boffey, Julia. Manuscripts of English Courtly Love Lyrics in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1985.
Boffey, Julia, and Carol Meale. “Selecting the Text: Rawlinson C.86 and Some Other Books for London Readers.” In Regionalism in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts: Essays Celebrating the Publication of “A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English.” Ed. Felicity Riddy. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991. Pp. 143–69.
Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards. A New Index of Middle English Verse. London: British Library, 2005.
Bolte, Johannes, and Georg Polívka. Anmerkungen zu der Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm. Second ed. 1914. Rpt. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1963.
Brewer, Derek. “The International Medieval Popular Comic Tale in England.” In The Popular Literature of Medieval England. Ed. Thomas J. Heffernan. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. Pp. 131–47.
———. “The Comedy of Corpses in Medieval Comic Tales.” In Risus Mediaevalis: Laughter in Medieval Literature and Art. Ed. Herman Braet, Guido Latré, and Werner Verbeke. Louvain: Louvain University Press, 2003. Pp. 11–29.
———, ed. Medieval Comic Tales. Second ed. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996.
Brown, Carleton. English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century. Oxford: Clarendon, 1932.
Busby, Keith. “Conspicuous by Its Absence: The English Fabliau.” Dutch Quarterly Review 12 (1982), 30–41.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls: Edward III. Vol. 10. London: Anthony Brothers, 1909.
Cartwright, Jane. “Virginity and Chastity Tests in Medieval Welsh Prose.” In Medieval Virginities. Ed. Ruth Evans, Sarah Salih, and Anke Bernau. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. 56–79.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer. Third ed. Gen. ed. Larry D. Benson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Cooke, Thomas, with Peter Whiteford and Nancy Mohr McKinley. “Middle English Comic Tales.” In A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050–1500. Ed. J. Burke Severs, Albert E. Hartung, and Peter G. Beidler. 11 vols. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967–2005. 9:3138–3328, 3472–3592.
Cowan, Ian Borthwick. Medieval Religious Houses, Scotland. London: Longman, 1976.
Craigie, W. A., et al., eds. A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth. 12 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press; and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1937–2004.
Curtius, Ernst Robert. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. Trans. Willard R. Trask. New York: Pantheon Books, 1953.
de Beaulieu, Marie-Anne Polo. La Scala coeli de Jean de Gobi. Paris: Édition du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1991.
Dobson, E. J. English Pronunciation 1500–1700. Second ed. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.
Douglas, Gavin. The Palis of Honoure. Ed. David Parkinson. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.
Downing, Janay Y. “A Critical Edition of Cambridge University MS Ff. 5. 48.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 1969.
Dunbar, William. William Dunbar: The Complete Works. Ed. John Conlee. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2004.
Farmer, David Hugh. The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. Oxford: Clarendon, 1978.
Ferguson, George. Signs and Symbols in Christian Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954.
French, Walter Hoyt, and Charles Brockway Hale, eds. Middle English Metrical Romances. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930. Rpt. in two vols., New York: Russell and Russell, 1964.
Froissart, Jean. Chronicles. Trans. Geoffrey Brereton. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
Furrow, Melissa M. Ten Fifteenth-Century Comic Poems. New York: Garland, 1985.
———. “Comic Tales.” In Medieval England: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Paul E. Szarmach, M. Teresa Tavormina, and Joel T. Rosenthal. New York: Garland, 1998. Pp. 203–04.
———. “The Middle English Fabliaux and Modern Myth.” ELH 56 (1989), 1–18.
Gaunt, Simon. “Genitals, Gender, and Mobility: The Fabliaux.” In Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. 234–85.
Ginsberg, Warren, ed. Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.
Goldstein, R. James. “The Freiris of Berwik and the Fabliau Tradition.” In The European Sun: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature, 1993. Ed. Graham Caie, Roderick J. Lyall, Sally Mapstone, and Kenneth Simpson. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2001. Pp. 267–75.
Goodall, Peter. “An Outline History of the English Fabliau after Chaucer.” AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 57 (1982), 5–23.
Görlach, Manfred. The Textual Tradition of the South English Legendary. Leeds: University of Leeds, 1974.
Griffiths, J. J. “A Re-examination of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson C. 86.” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 219 (1982), 381–88.
Hart, W. M. “The Fabliau and Popular Literature.” PMLA 23 (1908), 329–74.
Hines, John. The Fabliau in English. London: Longman, 1993.
Hoccleve, Thomas. The Regiment of Princes. Ed. Charles R. Blyth. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1999.
Jack, R. D. S. “The Freiris of Berwik and Chaucerian Fabliau.” Studies in Scottish Literature 17 (1982), 145–52.
Jordan, Richard. Handbook of Middle English Grammar. Trans. and rev. Eugene Joseph Crook. The Hague: Mouton, 1974.
Kellogg, Alfred L., and Robert C. Cox. "Chaucer’s May 3 and Its Contexts.” In Chaucer, Langland, Arthur: Essays in Middle English Literature. Ed. Alfred L. Kellogg. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1972. Pp. 155–98.
Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages. London: Routledge, 2000.
Kieckhefer, Richard. Magic in the Middle Ages. Second ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Knowles, Dom David. The Religious Orders in England. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955–56.
Koble, Nathalie, ed. “Le Lai du cor” et “Le Manteau mal taillé,” Les dessous de la Table Ronde. Paris: Éditions rue d’Ulm, 2005.
Kooper, Erik, ed. Sentimental and Humorous Romances. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2006.
Lachaud, Frédérique. “Dress and Social Status in England before the Sumptuary Laws.” In Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England. Ed. Peter Coss and Maurice Keen. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003. Pp. 105–24.
Lee, Brian S. “Seen and Sometimes Heard: Piteous and Pert Children in Medieval English Literature.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 23 (1998), 40–48.
Lewis, C. S. English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954.
Lindahl, Carl. “Jacks: The Name, the Tales, the American Traditions.” In Jack in Two Worlds. Ed. William Bernard McCarthy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. xiii–xxxiv.
Luick, Karl. Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache. 1914–40. Rpt. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1964.
Lupack, Alan, ed. “The Tale of Ralph the Colier.” In Three Middle English Charlemagne Romances. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1990. Pp. 161–204.
Lydgate, John. Lydgate’s Fall of Princes. Ed. Henry Bergen. 4 vols. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1923–27.
Lyndsay, David. “The Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane Lordis Papyngo.” In Sir David Lyndsay: Selected Poems. Ed. Janet Hadley Williams. Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2000. Pp. 58–97.
MacDonald, Alasdair A. “The Cultural Repertory of Middle Scots Lyric Verse.” In Cultural Repertoires: Structure, Function, and Dynamics. Ed. Gillis J. Dorleijn and Herman L. J. Vanstiphout. Louvain: Peeters, 2003. Pp. 59–86.
Malory, Thomas. The Works of Sir Thomas Malory. Ed. Eugène Vinaver. 3 vols. Rev. P. J. C. Field. Third ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
Matheson, Lister M. “Appendix: The Dialects and Language of Selected Robin Hood Poems.” In Robin Hood: The Early Poems, 1465–1560: Texts, Contexts, and Ideology. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. Pp. 189–210.
McCracken, Peggy. Romance of Adultery: Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
McIntosh, Angus, M. L. Samuels, and Michael Benskin, eds., with the assistance of Margaret Laing and Keith Williamson. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. 4 vols. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1986.
Morgan, Gwendolyn A. Medieval Balladry and the Courtly Tradition: Literature of Revolt and Assimilation. New York: Peter Lang, 1993.
Mossé, Fernand. A Handbook of Middle English. Trans. James A. Walker. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968.
Muscatine, Charles. The Old French Fabliaux. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
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Ohlgren, Thomas H. “‘lewed peple loven tales olde’: Robin Hood and the Monk and the Manuscript Context of Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.5.48.” In Robin Hood: The Early Poems, 1465–1560: Texts, Contexts, and Ideology. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. Pp. 28–67.
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Pollard, A. W., and G. R. Redgrave. A Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475–1640. Second ed., ed. Rev. W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, and Katharine F. Pantzer. 3 vols. London: Bibliographical Society, 1976–91.
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Robbins, Rossell Hope. “The English Fabliau: Before and after Chaucer.” Moderna Språk 64 (1970), 231–44.
Robertson, D. W., Jr. “Chaucerian Tragedy.” ELH 19 (1952), 1–37.
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Ross, Charles. Edward IV. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
Salisbury, Eve. The Trials and Joys of Marriage. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2002.
Schenck, Mary Jane Stearns. The Fabliaux: Tales of Wit and Deception. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1987.
Severs, J. Burke, Albert E. Hartung, and Peter G. Beidler, eds. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050–1500. 11 vols. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967–2005.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. G. R. Hibbard. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.
Shuffelton, George, ed. Codex Ashmole 61: A Compilation of Popular Middle English Verse. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2008.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Ed. J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon. Second ed. Rev. by Norman Davis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
Smith, Thomas. Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library 1696. Ed. C. G. C. Tite. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1984.
Snell, Rachel. “The Undercover King.” In Medieval Insular Romance: Translation and Innovation. Ed. Judith Weiss, Jennifer Fellows, and Morgan Dickson. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000. Pp. 133–54.
Speake, Jennifer, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Walsh, Elizabeth. “The King in Disguise.” Folklore 86 (1975), 3–24.
Whatley, E. Gordon. “The Life of St. Julian the Hospitaller in the Scottish Legendary (c. 1400): Introduction.” In Saints' Lives in Middle English Collections. Ed. E. Gordon Whatley, with Anne B. Thompson and Robert K. Upchurch. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2004. Pp. 307–15.
Whiting, Bartlett Jere, with the collaboration of Helen Wescott Whiting. Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases from English Writings Mainly before 1500. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968.
William of Pagula. The Mirror of King Edward III. Trans. Cary J. Nederman. In Medieval Political Theory: A Reader: The Quest for the Body Politic, 1100–1400. Ed. Cary J. Nederman and Kate Langdon Forhan. London: Routledge, 1993. Pp. 200–06.
Williams, Gordon. A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature. London: Athlone, 1994.
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Wright, Glenn. “Churl’s Courtesy: Rauf Coilȝear and Its English Analogues.” Neophilologus 85 (2001), 647–62.
———. “The Fabliau Ethos in the French and English Octavian Romances.” Modern Philology 102 (2005), 478–500.
ATU = Uther, Hans-Jörg. The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson. 3 vols. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2004.
DOST = Craigie, William A., et al., eds. A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth. 12 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press; and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1937–2004.LALME = McIntosh, Angus, M. L. Samuels, and Michael Benskin, eds., with the assistance of Margaret Laing and Keith Williamson. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. 4 vols. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1986.
Manual = Severs, J. Burke, Albert E. Hartung, and Peter G. Beidler, eds. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050–1500. 11 vols. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967–2005.
MED = Kurath, Hans, and Sherman M. Kuhn, eds. Middle English Dictionary. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1954–2000.
NCE = The New Catholic Encyclopedia. Ed. Berard L. Marthaler et al. Second ed. 15 vols. Detroit, MI: Thomson/Gale, 2003.
NIMEV = Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards. A New Index of Middle English Verse. London: British Library, 2005.
ODNB = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed., Jan. 2008.
OED = The Oxford English Dictionary. Second ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
RSTC = Pollard, A. W., and G. R. Redgrave. A Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475–1640. Second ed. Rev. W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, and Katharine F. Pantzer. 3 vols. London: Bibliographical Society, 1976–91.
Whiting = Whiting, Bartlett Jere, with the collaboration of Helen Wescott Whiting. Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases from English Writings Mainly before 1500. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968.
The Anglo-Norman Text of “Le Lai du cor.” Ed. C. T. Erickson. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1973.
Arber, Edward, ed. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554–1640. 2 vols. New York: Peter Smith, 1950.
Baldwin, F. E. Sumptuary Legislation and Personal Regulation in England. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1926.
The Bannatyne Manuscript: National Library of Scotland, Advocates' MS.1.1.6. Introduced by Denton Fox and W. A. Ringler. London: Scolar Press in association with the National Library of Scotland, 1980.
Bawcutt, Priscilla. “Scottish Manuscript Miscellanies from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century.” English Manuscript Studies 1100–1700 12 (2005), 46–73.
Birrel, Jean R. “The Medieval English Forest.” Journal of Forest History 24 (1980), 78–85.
Blanchfield, Lynne S. “The Romances in MS Ashmole 61: An Idiosyncratic Scribe.” In Romance in Medieval England. Ed. Maldwyn Mills, Jennifer Fellows, and Carol Meale. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991. Pp. 65–87.
———. “Rate Revisited: The Compilation of Narrative Works in MS Ashmole 61.” In Romance Reading on the Book. Ed. J. Fellows et al. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1996. Pp. 208–20.
Bloch, R. Howard. Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Boffey, Julia. Manuscripts of English Courtly Love Lyrics in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1985.
Boffey, Julia, and Carol Meale. “Selecting the Text: Rawlinson C.86 and Some Other Books for London Readers.” In Regionalism in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts: Essays Celebrating the Publication of “A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English.” Ed. Felicity Riddy. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991. Pp. 143–69.
Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards. A New Index of Middle English Verse. London: British Library, 2005.
Bolte, Johannes, and Georg Polívka. Anmerkungen zu der Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm. Second ed. 1914. Rpt. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1963.
Brewer, Derek. “The International Medieval Popular Comic Tale in England.” In The Popular Literature of Medieval England. Ed. Thomas J. Heffernan. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. Pp. 131–47.
———. “The Comedy of Corpses in Medieval Comic Tales.” In Risus Mediaevalis: Laughter in Medieval Literature and Art. Ed. Herman Braet, Guido Latré, and Werner Verbeke. Louvain: Louvain University Press, 2003. Pp. 11–29.
———, ed. Medieval Comic Tales. Second ed. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996.
Brown, Carleton. English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century. Oxford: Clarendon, 1932.
Busby, Keith. “Conspicuous by Its Absence: The English Fabliau.” Dutch Quarterly Review 12 (1982), 30–41.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls: Edward III. Vol. 10. London: Anthony Brothers, 1909.
Cartwright, Jane. “Virginity and Chastity Tests in Medieval Welsh Prose.” In Medieval Virginities. Ed. Ruth Evans, Sarah Salih, and Anke Bernau. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. 56–79.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer. Third ed. Gen. ed. Larry D. Benson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Cooke, Thomas, with Peter Whiteford and Nancy Mohr McKinley. “Middle English Comic Tales.” In A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050–1500. Ed. J. Burke Severs, Albert E. Hartung, and Peter G. Beidler. 11 vols. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967–2005. 9:3138–3328, 3472–3592.
Cowan, Ian Borthwick. Medieval Religious Houses, Scotland. London: Longman, 1976.
Craigie, W. A., et al., eds. A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth. 12 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press; and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1937–2004.
Curtius, Ernst Robert. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. Trans. Willard R. Trask. New York: Pantheon Books, 1953.
de Beaulieu, Marie-Anne Polo. La Scala coeli de Jean de Gobi. Paris: Édition du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1991.
Dobson, E. J. English Pronunciation 1500–1700. Second ed. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.
Douglas, Gavin. The Palis of Honoure. Ed. David Parkinson. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.
Downing, Janay Y. “A Critical Edition of Cambridge University MS Ff. 5. 48.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 1969.
Dunbar, William. William Dunbar: The Complete Works. Ed. John Conlee. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2004.
Farmer, David Hugh. The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. Oxford: Clarendon, 1978.
Ferguson, George. Signs and Symbols in Christian Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954.
French, Walter Hoyt, and Charles Brockway Hale, eds. Middle English Metrical Romances. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930. Rpt. in two vols., New York: Russell and Russell, 1964.
Froissart, Jean. Chronicles. Trans. Geoffrey Brereton. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
Furrow, Melissa M. Ten Fifteenth-Century Comic Poems. New York: Garland, 1985.
———. “Comic Tales.” In Medieval England: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Paul E. Szarmach, M. Teresa Tavormina, and Joel T. Rosenthal. New York: Garland, 1998. Pp. 203–04.
———. “The Middle English Fabliaux and Modern Myth.” ELH 56 (1989), 1–18.
Gaunt, Simon. “Genitals, Gender, and Mobility: The Fabliaux.” In Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. 234–85.
Ginsberg, Warren, ed. Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.
Goldstein, R. James. “The Freiris of Berwik and the Fabliau Tradition.” In The European Sun: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature, 1993. Ed. Graham Caie, Roderick J. Lyall, Sally Mapstone, and Kenneth Simpson. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2001. Pp. 267–75.
Goodall, Peter. “An Outline History of the English Fabliau after Chaucer.” AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 57 (1982), 5–23.
Görlach, Manfred. The Textual Tradition of the South English Legendary. Leeds: University of Leeds, 1974.
Griffiths, J. J. “A Re-examination of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson C. 86.” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 219 (1982), 381–88.
Hart, W. M. “The Fabliau and Popular Literature.” PMLA 23 (1908), 329–74.
Hines, John. The Fabliau in English. London: Longman, 1993.
Hoccleve, Thomas. The Regiment of Princes. Ed. Charles R. Blyth. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1999.
Jack, R. D. S. “The Freiris of Berwik and Chaucerian Fabliau.” Studies in Scottish Literature 17 (1982), 145–52.
Jordan, Richard. Handbook of Middle English Grammar. Trans. and rev. Eugene Joseph Crook. The Hague: Mouton, 1974.
Kellogg, Alfred L., and Robert C. Cox. "Chaucer’s May 3 and Its Contexts.” In Chaucer, Langland, Arthur: Essays in Middle English Literature. Ed. Alfred L. Kellogg. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1972. Pp. 155–98.
Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages. London: Routledge, 2000.
Kieckhefer, Richard. Magic in the Middle Ages. Second ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Knowles, Dom David. The Religious Orders in England. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955–56.
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