Major List

Dream Vision and Courtly Love Romance

Classical

Virgil, Aenead (selections)

Ovid Metamorphosis (selections)
Arms amatoria

English Tradition

Chretien de Troyes, Erec and Enide (1170) [Penguin 1991]

Chretien de Troyes, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (c. 1171-81) [Penguin 1991]
Chretien de Troyes, Yvain (1171-81) [Penguin 1991]
Marie de France, The Lais of Marie de France (c. 1170) [trans. Hanning and Ferrante 1978]

Anonymous The Floure and the Leafe

Anonymous The Assemblie of Ladies
Anonymous The Isle of Ladies
Anonymous Sir Orfeo

Pearl Poet Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

French Tradition
Guillaume de Lloris, Roman de la Rose
Jean de Meun

Chretien de Troyes, Erec and Enide (1170) [Penguin 1991]

Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (c. 1171-81) [Penguin 1991]
Yvain (1171-81) [Penguin 1991]

Marie de France The Lais of Marie de France (c. 1170) [trans. Hanning and Ferrante 1978]

Machaut La fontaine amoureuse

Le voir dit

Froissart Le Paradys d’Amour,

L’Espinette amoureuse,
La Prison amoureuse, and
Le Joli Buisson de Jonece

Heldris de Cornuälle Silence*

Christine de Pizan City of Ladies (selections)

Treatises

Andreas Capellanus, De amore

Ovide Moralise

Langland, William Piers Plowman (C text)

Pearl poet Cleanness
Pearl poet Patience
Pearl poet Pearl
Gower, John Confessio Amantis (selections)
Romance of the Rose
Chaucer
Troilus
Knights Tale
Book of the Duchess

Ovid Metamorphosis (selections)

Arms amatoria
Ovide Moralise
Machaut

Pearl

CHAUCER The Canterbury Tales

Troilus and Criseyde
Boece
A Treatise on the Astrolabe
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls
Legend of Good Women
GOWER Confessio Amantis (esp. Pr., 1, 5, 7)

1. Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae (c. 524)

2. Alain de Lille, De Planctu Naturae (c. 1160)

3. Jean de Meun and Guillaume de Lorris, Roman de la Rose (c. 1225, c. 1270)

4. Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova (1295)

5. Anonymous, Wynnere and Wastoure (c. 1360)

6. Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love (c. 1388)

7. Anonymous, Pearl (c. 1390)

8. William Langland, Piers Plowman - C-text (c. 1390)

9. John Gower, Confessio Amantis (c. 1390)

10.Thomas Hoccleve, The Series (c. 1422)

Mysticism/Theology
11. Hugh of St. Victor Didascalicon de studio legendi 
12. Richard of St. Victor Of the Four Degrees of Violent Love
13. Bernard of Clairveaux, Steps of Humility
1. De diligendo Dei 
2. Sermones super Cantica Canticorum (Sermons on the Song of Songs)
14. Richard Rolle, Melos Amoris
1. Form of Living
2. Incendium Amoris
3. Contra Amatores Mundi (Against the Lovers of the World)
4. Ego Dormio

Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love - long text (c. 1393)

Augustine Confessions, De Trinitate

Boethius Consolation of Philosophy

Richard Rolle The Form of Living

(English) Commentary on the Psalter
Cloud-author The Cloud of Unknowing
The Book of Privy Counseling
Deonise Hid Divinity
A Pistle of Prayer
A Pistle of Discrecioun of Stirings
A Tretis of Discrecyon of Sprites

Walter Hilton The Scale of Perfection 1 & 2

Julian of Norwich Shewings of Julian of Norwich

Revelation of Divine Love

Secondary Texts:

Marcia Colish, The Mirror of Language

Lawton, David Voice in Later Medieval English Literature
Cervone, Maria, Poetics of the Incarnation Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love

1. Erich Auerbach, Figura (1938)

2. Henri de Lubac, Medieval Exegesis: The Four Senses of Scripture (1959)