wtm reading list middle ages

[melissaL]

I am ordering books for next year( school year starts here in Australia in January).if you follow WTM and are/ have used the year 10 reading list middle ages, which books did you pick? I am trying to steer away from to many church heavy books. thank you for your help

[Starr]

[Michelle in AL]

Not on the list, but my favorite for the time period is The Once and Future King by T.H. White. It was written in the 1940's but is about King Arthur.

I also enjoyed Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Armitage, couldn't get though the Tolkein version.

Utopia was good too (I think that's on the list).

Beowulf by Heaney-excellent.

[Jane in NC]

Ecclesiastical History of the British People (Venerable Bede—Wallace-Hadrill translation); Islam: a Very Short Introduction (Ruthven) ; Beowulf (Heaney); Mabinogion; The Once and Future King (White); The Inferno (Dante); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkien); Canterbury Tales (Chaucer); The Prince (Machiavelli); Richard II (Shakespeare); Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare)

Teaching Company Lectures: Selected lectures (medieval) from Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, Professor Thomas F.X. Noble

Inferno was the clear winner on this list.

There was a terrific thread on Gawain previously. I'll try to find it for you later.

[melissaL]

thank you all very much. I find it so helpful finding out what other people had success with .

[Catherine]

On our list:
Consolation of Philosophy
Beowulf
Once and Future King
Sir Gawain (Tolkein translation)
Canterbury Tales-selections
Inferno
Hamlet-saw production, will also read
Principia Mathematica-selections
The Prince
A Man for All Seasons-book, then movie

So far, he has loved both Consolation of Philosophy and Beowulf. We may not get through it all. May also add more Rennaissance math\science stuff as that is his interest.

[anissarobert]

This is the reading list for the great books discussion class I'm leading this year. We have 2 seniors, 1 junior and 3 sophomores in the class. It was hard to decide what to do. The Aeneid is on the list because we didn't get to it last year.

Aeneid by Virgil (any edition)
Confessions by St. Augustine (Chadwick-trans.)
City of God by St. Augustine (selections) (Dods-trans.)
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Heaney-trans.)
The Divine Comedy by Dante (all parts if possible) (Pinsky-trans.)
Everyman (any edition)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Boroff-trans.)
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (Coghill-trans.)
The Prince by Machiavelli (Mansfield-trans.)
Utopia by More (Adams-trans.)
Faustus by Marlowe (any edition)
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare (coupled with some writings of Plutarch)
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Other plays by Shakespeare as time permits

[Jane in NC]

As promised, link to fabulous thread on Gawain.

Jane