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General:

Abrams, M.H. and Stephen Greenblatt. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Vol. 1. New York: Norton, 2000.
Allen, Rosamund, ed. Eastward Bound: Travel and Travellers, 1050-1550. Manchester, UK: Manchester U Press, 2004.
Arano, Luisa. The Medieval Health Handbook: Tacuinum Sanitatis. New York: George Braziller, 1976.
Baldwin, John. The Scholastic Culture of the Middle Ages, 1000-1300. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1971.
Bumke, Joachim. Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages. Trans. Thomas Dunlap. Berkeley, CA: U California, 1991.
Capellanus, Andreas. The Art of Courtly Love. Trans. John Jay Parry. New York: Columbia U Press, 1990.
Cooper, Helen. Pastoral: Medieval into Renaissance. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1977.
Huizinga, J. The Waning of the Middle Ages. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1924.
McGee, Timothy, et al. Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Indianapolis: Indiana U Press, 1996.
Seay, Albert. Music in the Medieval World. 2nd ed. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1975.

Arabic / Middle Eastern:

Andrews, Walter et al, eds. Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology. Austin, TX: U of Texas Press, 1997.
Arberry, A.J., trans. Mystical Poems of Rumi: First Selection, Poems 1-200. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1968.
Ibn Shaddad, Baha' al-Din. The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin, or al-Nawadir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Mahasin al-Yusufiyya. Trans. D.S. Richards. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002.
Meisami, Julie. Medieval Persian Court Poetry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U Press, 1987.
Saberi, Reza, trans. Poems of Hafez. New York: University Press of America, 1995.

Early Modern English:

Baldi, Sergio. Sir Thomas Wyatt. Trans. F.T. Prince. London: Longmans, Green, & Co. 1961.
Chambers, Edmund. English Pastorals. London: Blackie & Son, 1906.
Davis, Walter, ed. The Works of Thomas Campion: Complete Songs, Masques, and Treatises with a Selection of the Latin Verse. London: Faber and Faber, 1969.
Donne, John. Complete English Poems. Ed. C.A. Patrides. London: J.M. Dent, 1994.
Evans, Maurice. Elizabethan Sonnets. London: J.M. Dent, 1977.
Fowler, Alastair. Conceitful Thought: The Interpretation of English Renaissance Poems. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh U, 1975.
Fitzmaurice, James, et al. Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England. Ann Arbor, MI: U Michigan Press, 1997.
Gardner, Helen, ed. The Metaphysical Poets. London: Penguin, 1972.
Heale, Elizabeth. Wyatt, Surrey and Early Tudor Poetry. London: Longman, 1998.
Herman, Peter, ed. Sir Philip Sidney's An Apology for Poetry and Astrophil and Stella: Texts and Contexts. Glen Allen, VA: College Publishing, 2001.
Maclean, Hugh, ed. Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets. New York: Norton, 1974.
Maclean, Hugh and Anne Lake Prescott, ed. Edmund Spenser's Poetry. New York: Norton, 1993.
Marlowe, Christopher. The Complete Poems. Ed. Mark Thornton Burnett. London: J.M. Dent, 2000.
Peterson, Douglas. The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne: A History of the Plain and Elegant Styles. 2nd ed. East Lansing, MI: Colleagues, 1990.
Rivers, Isabel. Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 1992
Seng, Peter, ed. Tudor Songs and Ballads: From MS Cotton Vespasian A-25. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Press, 1978.
Sessions, William. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Boston: Twayne, 1986.
Southall, Raymond. The Courtly Maker: An Essay on the Poetry of Wyatt and His Contemporaries. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1964.
Spiller, Michael. The Development of the Sonnet: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 1992.
Tottell, Richard, ed. Songs and Sonettes Written By the Right Honorable Lord Henry Hawarde Late Earle of Surrey, and Other. London: Richard Tottell. 1565.
Waller, Gary. English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century. London: Longman, 1986.

Italian:

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Eclogues. Trans. Janet Levarie Smarr. New York: Garland, 1987.
Dante. The Latin Works of Dante Aligheri. Trans. A.G. Ferrers Howell et al. New York: Greenwood Press, 1969.
Goldin, Frederick, ed. German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages: Original Texts, with Translations and Introductions. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1973.
Jones, Frederic. The Structure of Petrarch's Canzoniere: A Chronological, Psychological, and Stylistic Analysis. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 1995.
Petrarca, Francesco. Petrarch's Love Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics. Trans. and ed. Robert Durling. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U, 1976.
Petrarca, Francesco. Rerum Familiarium Libri I-VIII. Trans. Aldo Bernardo. Albany, NY: State U of New York Press, 1975.
Roche, Thomas P. Jr. Petrarch and the English Sonnet Sequences. New York: AMS Press, 1989.
Sturm-Maddox, Sara. Petrarch's Laurels. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State U, 1992.
Sturm-Maddox, Sara. Petrarch's Metamorphoses: Text and Subtext in the Rime Sparse. Columbia, MO: U of Missouri, 1985.
Wilkins, Ernest Hatch. Life of Petrarch. Chicago: U of Chicago, 1961.
Wilkins, Ernest Hatch. Studies in the Life and Works of Petrarch. Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1955.
Witt, Ronald. In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003.

Latin:

Jones, Peter. Learn Latin: A Lively Introduction to Reading the Language. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1997.
Traupman, John. The New College Latin & English Dictionary. New York: Bantam, 1995.
Whicher, George. The Goliard Poets: Medieval Latin Songs and Satires. New York: New Directions, 1949.
Ziolkowski, Jan. The Cambridge Songs (Carmina Cantabrigiensia). New York: Garland, 1994.

Middle English:

Benson, Larry. ed. The Riverside Chaucer. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Brown, Carleton, ed. English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century. Oxford: Clarendon, 1953.
Burrow, J.A. and Thorlac Turville-Petre. A Book of Middle English. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
Loomis, Roger Sherman. A Mirror of Chaucer's World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U, 1965.
Luria, Maxwell and Richard Hoffman, eds. Middle English Lyrics. New York: Norton, 1974.
Mosse, Fernand. A Handbook of Middle English. Trans. James A. Walker. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U Press, 1968.
Reiss, Edmund. The Art of the Middle English Lyric: Essays in Criticism. Athens, GA: U Georgia Press, 1972.
Silverstein, Theodore. English Lyrics Before 1500. Evanston, IL: Northwestern U Press, 1971.
Wilkins, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer. 2nd ed. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995.

Old English:

Mitchell, Bruce and Fred C. Robinson. A Guide to Old English: Revised with Prose and Verse Texts and Glossary. 4th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1986.

Old French / Occitan:

Aubrey, Elizabeth. The Music of the Troubadours. Bloomington, IN: Indiana U Press, 1996.
Baldwin, John. Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: The Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U Press, 2000.
Bruckner, Matilda et al, ed. Songs of the Women Troubadours. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995
Cheyette, Fredric. Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours. Ithaca, NY: Cornell U Press, 2001.
Collins, Fletcher, Jr. A Medieval Songbook: Troubadour and Trouvere. Charlottesville, VA: U Press of Virginia, 1982.
De la Halle, Adam. Le Jeu de Robin et Marion. Ed. and trans. Shira Schwam-Baird. New York: Garland, 1994.
Doss-Quinby, Eglal, et al. Songs of the Women Trouveres. New Haven, CT: Yale U Press, 2001.
Einhorn, E. Old French: A Concise Handbook. New York: Cambridge U Press, 1974.
Epstein, Marcia Jenneth. 'Prions en Chantant': Devotional Songs of the Trouveres. Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 1997.
Fiero, Gloria et al, eds. Three Medieval Views of Women: La Contenance des Fames, Le Bien des Fames, Le Blasme des Fames. New Haven, CT: Yale U Press, 1989.
Gallo, F. Alberto. Music in the Castle: Troubadours, Books, and Orators in Italian Courts of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1995.
Gaunt, Simon and Sarah Kay. The Troubadours: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1999.
Harrison, Robert. Gallic Salt: Eighteen Fabliaux Translated from the Old French. Los Angeles: U of California Press, 1974.
Levy, Raphael. Trésor de la Langue des Juifs Français au Moyen Âge. Austin: UTexas Press, 1964.
Muir, Lynette. Literature and Society in Medieval France: The Mirror and the Image 1100-1500. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.
Page, Christopher. Voices and Instruments of the Middle Ages: Instrumental Practice and Songs in France 1100-1300. Berkeley, CA: U of California Press, 1986.
Paterson, Linda. The World of the Troubadours: Medieval Occitan Society, c. 1100-c. 1300. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1993.
Ramey, Lynn. Christian, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Rosenberg, Samuel, et al. ed. Songs of the Troubadours and Trouvères: An Anthology of Poems and Melodies. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.
Shirley, Janet. The Song of the Cathar Wars: A History of the Albigensian Crusade. Aldershot, England: Scolar Press, 1996.
Smith, Nathaniel and Thomas Bergin. An Old Provencal Primer. New York: Garland, 1984.
Sweetnham, Carol and Linda M. Paterson. The Canso d'Antioca: An Occitan Epic Chronicle of the First Crusade. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2003.

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