Middle Ages Texts in Translation

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Beowulf ca. 800 

Beowulf

Notes on Reading Beowulf

Beowulf at University of Virginia

Song of Roland ca. middle 11th century

Notes on Reading The Song of Roland

The Song of Roland,  c. 11th Century, full texts, trans. John O'Hagan.  In rhyming couplets! A different translation: The Song of Roland, c. 11th Century, full texts, trans. Charles Scott Moncrief.

Anselm 1033-1109

Monologium, On the Being of God [full text at Medieval Sourcebook]

Chretien de Troyes:

Lancelot or, The Knight of the Cart, Translation: W.W. Comfort [HTML]

El Cid 12th C

Notes on Reading El Cid

The Lay of the Cid (Translation: R.Selden Rose& L. Bacon)]

Thomas Aquinas 1225–74

Summa Theologica:  Treatise on Law

Virtue   Medieval Ethics

HTML at CCEL HTML at New Advent Meaning of Virtue in Thomas Aquinas

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

ILTweb Digital Dante Project Columbia University  Dartmouth Dante Project via Harvard

Petrarch 1304-1374

Petrarch's "If Love Does Not Exist" sonnet from Chaucer site Tale of Griselda A TALE OF WIFELY OBEDIENCE AND FAITH

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love    U of Virginia The Decameron,   Full text of English translation [at Medieval Sourcebook] The Decameron, in Italian and English [At Brown]

 

Geofrey Chaucer 1340-1400

Canterbury Tales Harvard The Canterbury Tales [Modernized version] The entire Canterbury Tales is no longer available on line at Virginia Tech via HTML. Try Harvard instead.

Langland 1360's 

Piers Plowman (The "A text").

Geste of Robin Hood 15th Cent

Geste of Robin Hood

Gest of Robin Hood THE GEOFFREY CHAUCER PAGE

The Green Knight  15th Cent

is a fifteenth-century adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a translation of that sophisticated work into the idiom of the popular romance:

The Green Knight  THE GEOFFREY CHAUCER PAGE