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UNDERGRADUATE READING LIST FOR CLASSICS CONCENTRATORS

(updated 3/9/99)

 General Examinaton | Greek and Latin Authors

Classical Archaeology | Greek and Roman History | Medieval Latin

Undergraduate Reading List
for Medieval Latin Concentrators

Late Latin and Medieval Latin Texts (to be read in the original):


Proba (fl. 385-387), Cento (ed. Schenkl, pp. 568-609: 694 hexameters)

Ausonius (ca. 310-395), Cento nuptialis (131 hexameters, together with short prose passages)

Augustine, Confessions, selections from Books 1-3 (ed. James Campbell and Martin McGuire, pp. 65-114, prose)

Prose vitae of Virgil in Vitae Vergilianae Antiquae, ed. Georgius Brugnoli and Fabius Stok: Vita Bernensis, Vita Gudiana II, Vita Noricensis I, and Vita Vossiana

Carolingian Renaissance, ed. Peter Godman:

    Alcuin (pp. 118-123, nos. 7-8, 51 hexameters and 17 elegiac distichs), (pp. 138-141, nos. 11-12, 8 distichs and 37 acrostich hexameters)

    Theodulf (pp. 168-171, no. 18, 32 distichs)

    Anonymous Planctus on death of Charlemagne (pp. 206-211, no. 26, rhythmical poetry)

    Gottschalk Orbais, "Ut quid iubes" (pp. 228-233, no. 33, rhythmical poetry)

    Notker the Stammer, Planctus of Rachel (pp. 320-323, no. 58)

    Anonymous "Clangam filii" (pp. 322-325, no. 59, sequence)

Waltharius (date much-disputed, from early Carolingian to mid Ottonian) (in toto: 1456 hexameters)

Hrotsvit (ca. 935-after 968), Dulcitius and Pafnutius (in toto: these plays, modeled on Terence, run from pp. 164-176 and pp. 218-244, respectively, in Teubner edition by Walter Berschin)

Embrico of Mainz (ca. 1010-1077), Poem on Muhammad (lines 939-1148)

Ecbasis cuiusdam captivi per tropologiam (ca. 1043-1046) (in toto: 1229 hexameters)

Ruodlieb (ca. 1050), ed. B. K. Vollmann, Fragment 1 (hexameters 1-140), fragment 5 (hexameters 450-621), fragment 7 (hexameters 1-129)

Cambridge Songs 6, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 20, 23-24, 27, 30A, 35, 40, 42, 48, ed. Ziolkowski (assorted meters)

Historians of the First Crusade (1095-1099: ed. Sidwell, pp. 218-229: prose)

Loire Valley poets in Karl Langosch, Lyrische Anthologie des lateinischen Mittelalters:

    Baudri of Bourgeuil (946-1130), selections 1-2 (pp. 192-198, 33 and 22 elegiac couplets, respectively) and 9-10 (pp. 228-231, 13 couplets and 41 hexameters, respectively)

    Marbod of Rennes (ca. 1035-1123), 1, chapter 1 and 3 (68 and 90 lines, pp. 234-236 and 248-252, respectively), and 2 a-k (pp. 260-268)

    Hildebert of Lavardin (1056-1133/4), all three selections (pp. 272-283, 90, 38, and 36 lines in elegiac couplets)

Peter the Venerable, Summa on doctrines of Islam (ed. Kritzeck, pp. 204-211: prose)

Peter Abelard (1079-1142), Historia calamitatum (prose)

    Letters (against Abbot Bernard; Letter 10 to Bernard of Clairvaux, Letter 13 to an Ignoramus in the Field of Dialectic, ed. Edmé Smits, prose)

    Planctus on Sampson, David, and Dinah (sequences)

    Preface to the Hymns for the Paraclete (prose)

    Preface to the Sic et Non (prose)

Nivard of Ghent, Ysengrimus (V.445-704 and VII.1-204, finished in 1148)

Hugh Primas (ca. 1093-1160) (all twenty-three poems, as found in the edition by Fleur Adcock)

Archpoet (fl. 1159-1165) (all ten poems, as found in the edition by Fleur Adcock: quantitative and rhythmic)

William of Blois, Alda (169-202, 305-356, 433-514, 551-566, in elegiac distichs)

Babio (243 elegiac distichs)

John of Alta Silva (Haute Seille), Dolopathos (ed. Hilka, pp. 14-25 and 88-108, prose)

Alan of Lille, Anticlaudianus (ed. Bossuat, book1.1-80, 2.476-513, 3.106-136, 4.95-243 [hexameters])



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