/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13602274]

Read more Medieval literature.

[Anonymous No.13602295]

I picked up Abelard and Héloïse at a yard sale for 25¢, what am I in for?
I really enjoyed reading the Anglo-Saxon canon in the original language, spent 2 years in college doing that. But the High Middle Ages interest me more. More pornography in the text for one thing.

[Anonymous No.13602302]

>>13602274
I read something on the 100 years war last year. It was really interesting. What you got for me?

[Anonymous No.13602444]

>>13602295
>reading the Anglo-Saxon canon in the original language
nice, I'm taking some Old English courses next year for that same reason. have you run into any important Anglo-Saxon texts which weren't written in OE?
>>13602302
lots of adventure stories and some surprisingly profound theological works, off the top of my head there's "The Cloud of Unknowing," "Revelations of Divine Love," "Consolation of Philosophy," the Troyes romances, and the works of the Pearl Poet

[Anonymous No.13602450]

>>13602302
Not OP, but read Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love, and Margery Kempe's The Book of Margery Kempe.

[Anonymous No.13603628]

Where will the wheel of fortune land next?

[Anonymous No.13603669]

>>13602274
like what you homo

[Anonymous No.13603693]

>>13602274
You can't tell me what to do.

[Anonymous No.13603742]

I just finished the Nibelungenlied. I also just picked up a collection of two books, the Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey of Villehardouin and the Life of Saint Louis by John of Joinville, both 1st hand accounts of a crusade. I’ve never heard of either but they piqued my interest. Is anyone aware if they’re any good beyond historic import?

[Anonymous No.13603792]

>>13602302
what was it called?

[Anonymous No.13603911]

I've recently been fascinated by the Carmina Burana in the excellent edition by the Dumbarton Oaks, also the troubadours

[Anonymous No.13605232]

>>13603911
>Dumbarton Oaks

Speaking of Dumbarton Oaks, this book is a treasure.

[Anonymous No.13605398]

>>13602302
>>13603792
Thanks

[Anonymous No.13605429]

It’s more late medieval, but Froissart’s chronicles is a really comfy primary source of 14th century and it’s very readable and enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.13605577]

>>13602274
Just a reminder that TEAMS is the best way to enjoy medieval lit.

[Anonymous No.13605612]

>>13602274
No, it's really boring.

[Anonymous No.13606330]

>>13602274
no, faggot

[Anonymous No.13606511]

>>13602274
has he got a little face on his crotch?

[Anonymous No.13606614]

>>13603628
death. so do good acts while you can, anon.

[Anonymous No.13606625]

>>13602274
>endless bible fan-fiction
No thanks

[Anonymous No.13606789]

Is Chrétien de Troyes good ?

[Anonymous No.13606815]

>>13606789
Definitely. He's the missing link between narrative romance and vernacular novel, uses his sources freely, and manages to make something modern and classical of them by degrees (like Shakespeare). He crystallizes 12th-century french chivalry in all its weird contradictions of lust and manners and faith.

[Anonymous No.13606831]

>>13602274
Only medieval thing I've read is A Pilgrim's Progress

[Anonymous No.13606891]

>>13606831
Time to read something enjoyable from the period, then. I'd start with Marie de France.

[Anonymous No.13607031]

>>13606831
>1678
>medieval
nigga what

[Anonymous No.13607175]

>>13607031
I know, but isn't it hard to think of Bunyan as part of the Restoration period? I always forget he's a contemporary of Samuel Johnson and Dryden.

[Anonymous No.13608194]

>>13602302
No seriously what was it called

[Anonymous No.13608198]

>>13602302
Read. St. Alphonsus di Liguri.

[Anonymous No.13608371]

>>13606891
i second any and all recommendations of marie de france

[Anonymous No.13608906]

>>13606614
true

[Anonymous No.13608945]

wish i could read latin
i would just sit around and read codices all day
oh well too lazy

[Anonymous No.13609865]

>>13602274

https://www.amazon.com/Meetings-Remarkable-Manuscripts-CHRISTOPHER-HAMEL/dp/0241003040