Christ Church, Canterbury
Church, Cult, and Codices

MDVL 6000
Summer 2005

Suggested Research Topics

Alphege (Aelfheah), Saint
    Budny and Graham, “Les Cycles des saints Dunstan et Alphège”
    Shaw, trans., Osbern’s Life of Alfege
    Wharton, Anglia Sacra (vol. 2, pp. 122-47)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
    The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
    Dumville and Keynes, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anselm, Saint
    Eadmer, The Life of St Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury
    Southern, Saint Anselm: A Portrait in a Landscape
Becket Leaves
    Backhouse and de Hamel, The Becket Leaves
    Birkett, The Becket Leaves
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica
    Jones, A Concordance to the Historia ecclesiastica of Bede
    Colgrave and Mynors, ed. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History
    Wallace-Hadrill, Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Caedmon Manuscript
    Muir, ed., A Digital Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library ...
    Karkov, Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England
Crypt Capitals
    Kahn, Canterbury Cathedral and Its Romanesque Sculpture
    Gameson, “The Romanesque Crypt Capitals”
Dunstan, Saint
    Ramsay et al., ed. St Dunstan: His Life, Times and Cult
    Budny and Graham, “Les Cycles des saints Dunstan et Alphège”
    William of Malmesbury, Saints’ Lives
Eadwine Psalter
    Gibson, et al., ed. The Eadwine Psalter
    Noel, “The Utrecht Psalter in England”
Erasmus, Peregrinatio religionis ergo
    Erasmus, Opera omnia (v. 1)
    Thompson, trans. The Colloquies of Erasmus
Garnier de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie saint Thomas le martyr de Cantorbire
    Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, La Vie de saint Thomas
    Shirley, trans. Garnier’s Becket
    Peters, “An Ecclesiastical Epic”
Genealogy Windows
    Caviness, “Canterbury Cathedral Clerestory”
    Caviness, The Windows of Christ Church Cathedral Canterbury
Harley Psalter
    Noel, The Harley Psalter
Liturgy for the Feast of St. Thomas Becket (December 29)
    Slocum, Liturgies in Honour of Thomas Becket
    Gregorian Chant from Canterbury Cathedral
Liturgy for the Feast of the Translation of St. Thomas Becket (July 7)
    Reames, “Reconstructing and Interpreting”
    Slocum, Liturgies in Honour of Thomas Becket
Monuments in the Cathedral, Medieval
    Wilson, “The Medieval Monuments”
Nave, Architecture of
    Woodman, The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral
Nave Excavations of 1993
    Blockley, Canterbury Cathedral Nave
“Reel” Becket
    Becket (1964), dir. Peter Glenville
    Harty, The Reel Middle Ages
Theodore, Saint
    Lapidge, ed. Archbishop Theodore
Thómas Saga Erkibiskups
    Magnússon, ed. and trans. Thómas Saga Erkibiskups
    Antonsson, “Two Twelfth-Century Martyrs”
    Staunton, trans. The Lives of Thomas Becket
Walter of Châtillon, Vita S. Thome
    Wollin, ed. Saints’ Lives by Walter of Châtillon
Waterworks of the Twelfth Century
    Gibson, et al., ed. The Eadwine Psalter
William of Malmesbury, Gesta pontificum Anglorum
    William of Malmesbury, De gestis pontificum Anglorum
    William of Malmesbury, The Deeds of the Bishops of England
York Gospels
    Alexander et al. The York Gospels

Bibliography:

Alexander, Jonathan, et al. The York Gospels. Ed. Nicolas Barker. London: Roxburghe Club, 1986. [RRC: BX5107 .Y5 Y67 1986]

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. <http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/asintro2.html>

Antonsson, Haki. “Two Twelfth-Century Martyrs: St Thomas of Canterbury and St Magnús of Orkney.” In Sages, Saints and Settlements, ed. Gareth Williams and Paul Bibire, pp. 41-64. The Northern World: North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 AD, Peoples Economies and Cultures 11. Leiden: Brill, 2004. [Waldo Library, Stacks: PT7181 .S25 2004]

Becket (1964) dir. Peter Glenville [Videotape, DVD, and 16mm Film Collection, 3305 Sangren Hall: V1037]

Backhouse, Janet. The Becket Leaves. London: British Library, 1988. [Waldo Library, Stacks: DA209 .T4 B23x 1988]

Birkett, C. J. The Becket Leaves. 2000. <http://www.angelfire.com/pa4/becketleaves/>

Blockley, Kevin, et al. Canterbury Cathedral Nave: Archaeology, History and Architecture. The Archaeology of Canterbury, New Series 1. Canterbury: Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral and Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1997. [Waldo Library, Stacks: DA690 .C3 A73 n.s. v. 1; also RRC: DA 690 .C3]

Budny, Mildred and Timothy Graham. “Les Cycles des saints Dunstan et Alphège dans les vitraux romans de la cathédrale de Canterbury.” Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 38 (1995), 55-78. [Waldo Library, Stacks: CB3 .C3]

Caviness, Madeline H. “Canterbury Cathedral Clerestory: The Glazing Programme in Relation to the Campaigns of Construction.” In Medieval Art and Architecture at Canterbury before 1220, pp. 46-55. The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 5. Leeds: W. S. Maney, 1982. [Waldo Library, Stacks and RRC: N6771 .C35 M43 1982]

Caviness, Madeline Harrison. The Windows of Christ Church Cathedral Canterbury. Corpus vitrearum medii aevi, Great Britain 2. London: British Academy, 1981. [Waldo Library, Reference: NK5308 .C6 G73x v. 2; also RRC: NK5308 .C6]

Colgrave, Bertram and R. A. B. Mynors, ed. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. [Waldo Library, Stacks: BR746 .B5 1969; also RRC: BR746 .B43 1969]

Dumville, David and Simon Keynes, ed. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1983- [ongoing edition] [Waldo Library, Stacks: DA150 .A6 1983b]

Eadmer. The Life of St Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury. Ed. and trans. R. W. Southern. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. [Waldo Library, Stacks: BX4700 .A58 E2 1972]

Erasmus, Desiderius. Opera omnia. 10 vols. in 11. Leiden: Vander Aa, 1703-06, repr. London: Gregg Press, 1962. [Waldo Library, Oversize: PA8500 1703]

Gameson, Richard. “The Romanesque Crypt Capitals of Canterbury Cathedral.” Archaeologia cantiana 110 (1992), 17-48. [photocopy available from Dr. Teviotdale]

Gibson, Margaret, et al., ed. The Eadwine Psalter: Text, Image, and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Canterbury. College Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. [Waldo Library, Stacks and RRC: ND3357 .C3 E24 1992]

Gregorian Chant from Canterbury Cathedral [Audio CD available from Dr. Teviotdale]

Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence. La Vie de saint Thomas de Canterbury. Ed. and trans. Jacques T. E. Thomas. 2 vols. Leuven: Peeters, 2002. [Waldo Library, Stacks: PQ1477 .G45 A199 2002]

Harty, Kevin J. The Reel Middle Ages: American, Western and Eastern European and Asian Films about Medieval History. Jefferson: McFarland & Company: 1999. [Waldo Library, Stacks: PN1995.9 .M52 H37 1999]

Jones, Putnam Fennell. A Concordance to the Historia ecclesiastica of Bede. Cambridge: Medieval Academy of America, 1929. [Waldo Library, Stacks and RBR and RRC: BR746 .B6 J6]

Kahn, Deborah. Canterbury Cathedral and Its Romanesque Sculpture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. [Waldo Library, Stacks and RRC: NB481 .C35 K34 1991]

Karkov, Catherine E. Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. [not available locally]

Lapidge, Michael, ed. Archbishop Theodore: Commemorative Studies on His Life and Influence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [Waldo Library, Stacks: BR754 .T44 A73 1995]

Magnússon, Eiríkr, ed. and trans. Thómas Saga Erkibiskups: A Life of Archbishop Thomas Becket, in Icelandic. Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores 65. London: Longman, 1875-83. [Waldo Library, Stacks: DA25 .B5 no. 65]

Muir, Bernard J., ed. A Digital Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Junius 11. Bodleian Digital Texts 1. CD-ROM. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2004. [RRC: PR1601 .M85 2004]

Noel, William. The Harley Psalter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [Waldo Library, Stacks: ND3357 .H37 N6 1995]

Noel, William. “The Utrecht Psalter in England: Continuity and Experiment.” In The Utrecht Psalter in Medieval Art: Picturing the Psalms of David, ed. Kurt van der Horst et al., pp. 120-65. Tuurkdijk: HES, 1996. [Waldo Library, Rare Book Room and RRC: Oversize BX2033.U87 1996]

Peters, Timothy. “An Ecclesiastical Epic: Garnier de Pont-Sainte-Maxence’s Vie de saint Thomas le martyr.” Mediaevistik 7 (1996 for 1994), 181-202. [not available locally]

Ramsay, Nigel, et al., ed. St Dunstan: His Life, Times and Cult. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1992. [Waldo Library, Stacks: BR754 .D85 S83 1992]

Reames, Sherry L. “Reconstructing and Interpreting a Thirteenth-Century Office for the Translation of Thomas Becket.” Speculum 80 (2005), 118-70. [Waldo Library, Stacks: PN661 .S6]

Shaw, Frances. Osbern’s Life of Alfege. London: St. Paul’s, 1999. [photocopy available from Dr. Teviotdale]

Shirley, Janet, trans. Garnier’s Becket: Translated from the 12th-Century Vie saint Thomas le martyr de Cantobire of Garnier of Pont-Sainte-Maxence. London: Phillimore, 1975. [Waldo Library, Stacks: PQ1477 .G45 A27]

Slocum, Kay Brainard. Liturgies in Honour of Thomas Becket. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. [Waldo Library, Stacks: DA209 .T4 S56x 2004]

Southern, R. W. Saint Anselm: A Portrait in a Landscape. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. [Waldo Library, Stacks: BX4700 .A58 S59 1990]

Staunton, Michael, trans. The Lives of Thomas Becket. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001. [Waldo Library, Reserve: DA209 .T4 L58 2001]

Thompson, Craig R., trans.The Colloquies of Erasmus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965. [Waldo Library, Stacks: PA8508 .E5 T52]

Wallace-Hadrill, J. M. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People: A Historical Commentary. Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. [Waldo Library, Stacks and RRC: BR746 .B6 W35 1988]

Wharton, Henry. Anglia Sacra. 2 vols. London: Richard Chiswel, 1691. [Waldo Library, Rare Book Room, ICS: BR746 .W5]

William of Malmesbury. The Deeds of the Bishops of England. Trans. David Preest. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002. [Waldo Library, Stacks: BR747 .W54x 2002]

William of Malmesbury. De gestis pontificum Anglorum libri quinque. Ed. N. E. S. A. Hamilton. Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores 52. London: Longman, 1870, repr. Wiesbaden: Kraus Reprint, 1964. [Waldo Library, Stacks: DA25 .B5 no. 52 1964; also the original edition: Waldo Library, Stacks and RRC: DA25 .B5 no. 52]

William of Malmesbury. Saints’ Lives: Lives of SS. Wulfstan, Dunstan, Patrick, Benignus and Indract. Ed. M. Winterbottom and R. M. Thomson. Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. [Waldo Library, Stacks: BX4700 .W9 S254x 2002]

Wilson, Christopher. “The Medieval Monuments.” In A History of Canterbury Cathedral, ed. P. Collinson, N. Ramsay, and M. Sparks, pp. 451-510. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. [Waldo Library, Reserve: BX5195 .C3 H57 1995; also RRC: BX5195 .C3 H57 1995 (for the corrected reprint edition of 2002)]

Wollin, Carsten, ed. Saints’ Lives by Walter of Châtillon: Brendan, Alexis, Thomas Becket. Toronto Medieval Latin Texts 27. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2002. [Waldo Library, Stacks: BX4659 .G7 W34x 2002]

Woodman, Francis. The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. [Waldo Library, Permanent Reserve: NA5471 .C2 W63 1981]