Brownrigg, Linda. "The Taymouth Hours and the Romance of Beves of Hampton." In English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, edited by Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths, Vol. I, pp. 222-41. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989.

Focuses on the illustrations that accompany an excerpt from Bevis of Hampton which appears in the fourteenth-century manuscript known as the Taymouth Hours.

De Vries, F. C. "A Note on The Owl and the Nightingale 951, 1297." Notes and Queries n.s. 16, No. 12 (December 1969): 442-44.

Points out that although the reflexive form of the verb "to understand" is rarely found in fourteenth-century English texts, this usage appears in line 319 of the Auichinleck version of Bevis of Hampton.

Hibbard, Laura A. "Jacques de Vitry and Boeve de Haumtone." Modern Language Notes XXXIV, No. 7 (November 1919): 408-11.

Proposes that a tale related in a sermon by a French cleric is the source of the episode in the Anglo-Nornian version of Boeve de Haumtone in which Bevis escapes from his Saracen foes by a masterful display of horsemanship.

Matzke, John E. "The Legend of Saint George: ItsDevelopment into a roman d'aventure." PMLA XIX, n.s. XII, No. 3 (1904): 449-76.

Compares early English versions of Bevis of Hampton with the story of Saint George as recounted in Richard Johnson's Seven Champions of Christendom (1592). Matzke concludes that Johnson's depiction of George as both a valorous hero and a religious martyr was adapted from a version of Bevis—now lost—in which elements of the stories of Beves and George had already been fused.

——. "The Oldest Form of the Beves Legend." Modern Philology X, No. I(July 1912): 19-54 1-36.

Argues that the essential outline of Italian variants of the Bevis story stems from an independent tradition. Matzke determines that both the Italian forms on the one hand and the Anglo-Norman and continental French versions on the other originally derived from a French tale that is no longer extant.

Turnbull, William B. D. D. "Preliminary Remarks." In Sir Beves of Hamtoun: A Metrical Romance. Publication 44 of the Maitland Club, edited by William B. D. D. Turnbull, pp. xi-xix. Edinburgh: 1838.

Comments briefly on Bevis's historical prototype and the poem's French predecessors, and summarizes the plot.