
history through english literature
a compilation of the English literature mentioned in the Fredymology podcast episodes
Items in this hypelist
1– Monsters and Magic; Old English Literature and Anglo-Saxon Heroes

Beowulf
Anonymous · 2008

Grendel
John Gardner · 1989
2– Pilgrims, Poets and Prophets; The Middle English Mind

The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066
Marc Morris · 2022

Old and Middle English c.890-c.1400 An Anthology
Elaine Treharne · 2004

The History of the Kings of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth · 2019

The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900
Arthur Quiller-Couch · 2021

Piers the Ploughman
William Langland · 1966

Troilus and Criseyde
Geoffrey Chaucer · 1971

The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 2003

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Anonymous · 2006

Revelations of Divine Love
Julian of Norwich · 1999

A Mixed Life
Margery Kempe, Anthony Bale · 2021

Little Gidding
Thomas Stearns Eliot · 1942

Confessio Amantis
John Gower · 1969

Lancaster and York The Wars of the Roses
Alison Weir · 1998

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
S.T. Coleridge, Gustave Dor · 1970

Le Morte d'Arthur King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Thomas Malory · 2015

A Short History of English Literature
Benjamin Ifor Evans, Ifor Evans, Bernard Bergonzi · 1976

The Mabinogion
Sioned Davies · 2008

The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles Their Nature and Legacy
Ronald Hutton · 1993
3– Courts, Crowns and Church: Literature of the Tudors

The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory · 2002

The Pastime Of Pleasure
Stephen Hawes · 1517

John Skelton Selected Poems
John Skelton · 2020

Utopia
Thomas More · 2003

Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
Christopher Marlowe · 1998

A Man for All Seasons
Robert Bolt · 1990

The Children of Henry VIII
Alison Weir · 2003

Henry VIII King and Court
Alison Weir · 2002

Boleyn Traitor
Philippa Gregory · 2025

Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel · 2009









