General Resources on Medieval Literature and Culture

To broaden your understanding of the Middle Ages literary period and its authors, visit additional sites available on the Web by clicking on the links provided below.

Anthology of Middle English Literature

Complete Corpus of Old English is a text-file index of 3,000+ digitized texts, part of the Dictionary of Old English Project at the University of Toronto.

Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse is gateway to the online texts of the Humanities Text Initiative, U. Michigan.

DScriptorium devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts.

Early Manuscripts at Oxford contains "digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned direct from the originals"; includes ancient papyri (from Herculaneum), Celtic manuscripts, and other medieval manuscripts.

The Exile Home Page is an interesting page of critical essays and reviews relating to medieval exile literature, maintained by Liz Broadwell, University. Penn.

14th Century Outline

Internet Medieval Sourcebook includes full-text and excerpted sources; also Saints' lives.

The Labyrinth is the most renowned of the medieval metapages with extensive resources and search capability. It is maintained by Deborah Everhart & Martin Irvine at Georgetown University.

Medieval Feminist Index - Scholarship on Women, Sexuality, and Gender

Medieval Irish Poetry

Middle English Collection at the Electronic Text Center contains a extensive database electronic texts at the University of Virginia.

NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources

Old English Pages: Map of Anglo-Saxon England is an elementary map of Anglo-Saxon England, with dates of dates of conquest and colonization.

Stanford U. Library Medieval Pages contains many images, electronic texts. It is maintained by Stanford University Libraries.

U. Michigan Humanities Text Initiative: Middle English Collection. The Middle English Compendium is built to offer easy access to an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and an associated network of electronic resources, including a large collection of Middle English texts.

Arthurian Studies

Arthuriana (journal)

Oxford Arthurian Society explores the figure of King Arthur in history, literature and legend.

Beowulf

Resources for Studying Beowulf

Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales Project is maintained by Universities of Sheffield and Oxford.

Chaucer is Web resource maintained by Anniina Jokinen.

Chaucer Page is run by The Poetry Archives.

Chaucer Bibliography a good source of reading material run by Michael Hanly at Washington State University.

Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich is a comprehensive site maintained and written by Anniina Jokinen.

Margery Kempe

Margery Kempe is a extensive resource on Margery Kempe maintained by Anniina Jokinen.

William Langland

The Langland Home Page is comprehensive Website maintained by Lawrence Warner at the University of Pennsylvania.

Piers Plowman Project is a multi-level, hyper-textually linked electronic archive of the textual tradition of all three versions of the fourteenth-century allegorical dream vision Piers Plowman.

John Lydgate

The Canon of John Lydgate Page is extensive resource on Lydgate maintained by Stephen R. Reimer at the University of Alberta.

Sir Thomas Malory

Sir Thomas Malory is a comprehensive site maintained and written by Anniina Jokinen.

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