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MEDIEVAL STUDIES PROGRAMS, CENTERS & ASSOCIATIONS
FONTS FOR DISPLAY OF OLD ENGLISH
- Anthology of Middle English
Literature (metapage of online texts and other resources organized as
a virtual anthology) (Anniina Jokinen)
- Bibliography
of Late Antiquity for Students
- The Celts & Saxons
Homepage (Lawrence V. Conley)
- Complete Corpus of Old
English (text-file index of 3,000+ digitized texts) (Dictionary of Old
English Project, U. Toronto)
- Corpus of Middle
English Prose and Verse (gateway to the online texts of the Humanities
Text Initiative, U. Michigan)
- DScriptorium ("devoted
to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts")
(Jesse D. Hurlbut)
- Early Manuscripts at Oxford ("digital
facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned direct from the originals";
inncludes ancient papyri (from Herculaneum), Celtic manuscripts, and other
medieval manuscripts) (Oxford U.)
- Exploring Ancient World
Cultures: Medieval Europe (Anthony F. Beavers, U. Evansville)
- Forgotten Ground Regained: A Treasury
of Alliterative and Accentual :Poetry (alliterative and accentual poetry
from medieval to modern) (Paul Deane)
- 14th
Century Outline (Michael Hanly, Washington State U.)
- History and Development of Prose Style (John F. Tinkler, Towson State U.,
Maryland)
- HUMBUL
Gateway to Medieval Studies (Oxford U.)
- Ian's English Calendar
(dating resource for students of English history and literature: "converts
between old and new style dates, calculates day of the week, British regnal
years, and the date of Easter and other moveable religious holidays")
(Ian McInnes, Albion C.)
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook
(includes full-text and excerpted sources; also Saints' lives) (Paul Halsall,
Forham U.)
- Internet
Resources for the Anglo-Saxon World (Trent and Peak Archaeological Trust)
- Kevin S. Kiernan (U. Kentucky), "Digital
Preservation, Restoration, and Dissemination of Medieval Manuscripts"
- The Labyrinth
(the best-known medieval metapage, with deep resources) (Deborah Everhart
& Martin Irvine, Georgetown U.)
- Medieval
Cultural Studies: A Basic Reading List (Martin Irvine, Georgetown U.,
and Michael Uebel, U. Virginia)
- Medieval
Feminist Index - Scholarship on Women, Sexuality, and Gender (Margaret
Schaus)
- Medieval Feminist
Newsletter Bibliography Fall 1996 (plain-text) (Chris Africa, Society
for Medieval Feminist Scholarship & U. Iowa Libraries)
- Medieval Irish Poetry
(Maureen S. O'Brien)
- Medieval
Studies (very deep, well-annotated, multi-disciplinary metapage of online
medieval resources designed "not merely to replicate the Labyrinth")
(Isobel Stark; U. Sheffield)
- Medioevo Latino
(in Italian; "una bibliografia informativa, annuale, sulla produzione
medievistica dell'anno precedente, relativa prevalentemente ai testi scritti
in lingua latina tra l'anno 475 e il 1335") (Fondazione Ezio Franceschini
& Societé Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino)
- Middle English
Collection at the Electronic Text Center, U. Virginia
- NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval
Resources (Beau A.C. Harbin, Catholic U. of America)
- The
Old English Bible: Electronic Old-English Texts of Biblical Literature
- On-line
Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Material in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- Old English
Pages (Catherine N. Ball, Georgetown U.
- Old English Pages:
Map of Anglo-Saxon England (Matthew White)
- On-Line
Literary Resources: Medieval (Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.)
- The Online Medieval and Classical
Library (OMACL) (Douglas B. Killings/Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)
- The Period
Pages Project (resources on writers in four periods: Medieval, Renaissance,
Restoration and Eighteenth century, and Victorian) (U. Windsor graduate and
undergraduate students)
- Project Aldus:
An Early Modern Virtual Library and Resource Center (temporarily offline)
(Johns Hopkins U.)
- Richard III and Yorkist History Server
(many full-text, pedagogical, and other resources that serve as a general
introduction to the late medieval and Renaissance period; includes literary
texts) (Richard III Society, American Branch)
- Stanford
U. Library Medieval Pages
- TEAMS Middle
English Texts ("texts which occupy an important place in the literary
and cultural canon but which have not been readily available in student editions";
includes introductions to each work) (Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle
Ages)
- U. Kansas Index of Medieval Studies:
- U. Michigan Humanities
Text Initiative: Middle English Collection
- U. Virginia Middle English Server:
- Women
Writers of the Middle Ages (Bonnie Duncan, Millersville U., Pennsylvania)
- Worlds of Late Antiquity
- WWW Medieval
Resources (English Dept., Virginia Tech U.)
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- The Alliterative Morte Arthure
- The
Altered State: England, Literature, and the Pub ("looks at how inns,
taverns, alehouses and pubs have appeared in literature from Chaucer to the
present day") (Steven Earnshaw, Sheffield Hallam U., UK)
- Ancrene Wisse
| (another
version)
- Apollonius of
Tyre: A Hypertext Edition (based on Thorpe's 1834 text and translation)
(Catherine N. Ball, Georgetown U.)
- Arthurian Studies
- The Bayeux Tapestry (recounts
the Battle of Hastings using images of the Tapestry)
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Beowulf
- The Electronic
Beowulf Project ("information on CD database of digital
images of the Beowulf manuscript and related manuscripts and printed texts";
includes sidebar with links to articles relevant to the both the manuscript
and the EBP) (British Library with Kevin Kiernan, U. Kentucky, and Paul
Szarmach, Western Michigan U.)
- Beowulf
(translation by Francis B. Gummere, revised and annotated)
- Resources
for Studying Beowulf (The Labyrinth)
- Bodleian
Library, Manuscript Pages
- Bodleian Library, Illuminations
from Manuscript Pages
- Boethius
- The Book of Kells
- Terry V. F. Brogan, Metrici
and Rhythmici: A Chronological List of Ancient and Medieval Theories of Meter,
with Secondary Apparatus (Versification)
- Chaucer
- General Resources
- Writings
- Chaucer
Bibliography (Michael Hanly, Washington State U.)
- The
Essential Chaucer Bibliography On-Line (Annotated, extensively
indexed; "The bibliography is divided into almost 90 topics,
including themes, techniques, and individual works by Chaucer.")
(Mark Allen, U. Texas, San Antonio)
- Online
Chaucer Bibliography (telnet)
- The
Electronic Canterbury Tales (deep, well-organized set of annotated
links to texts and materials related to The Canterury Tales)
(Diane T. Kline, U. Alaska, Anchorage)
- The
Book of the Duchess (Online Medieval and Classical Library)
- The
House of Fame (Online Medieval and Classical Library)
- The
Parliament of Fowles (Online Medieval and Classical Library)
- A Treatise
on the Astrolabe (The Art Bin)
- Treatise
on The Astrolabe: addresses to his son Lowys (Humanities Text
Initiative, U. Michigan)
- Troilus
and Criseyde (Online Medieval and Classical Library)
- Criticism
- Glenn Burger (U. Alberta), "Queer
Performativity and the Natural in Chaucer's Physician's and Pardoner's
Tales" (Cultural Frictions Conference, Georgetown U., 1995)
(HTML by Jeffrey Cohen, George Washington U.)
- R.A. Shoaf (U. Florida), Dante,
Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word (hypertext "postprint"
of Shoaf's book originally published in 1983)
- Sarah Stanbury (C. of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts), "Visibility
Politics in Chaucer's Knight's Tale" (Cultural Frictions
Conference, Georgetown U., 1995) (HTML by Jeffrey Cohen, George Washington
U.)
- Mary Wack (Washington State U.), "Chaucer
in 2001"
- Visual Resources
- Max's Chaucer Page
("digital paintings and illustrations of Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales") (Max Cordonnier, Southeast Missouri State U.)
- .Literature
& the Visual Arts (includes exhibit on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales:
Medieval & Modern Perspectives) (Max Edward Cordonnier)
- Aberdeen
BestiaryProject (Aberdeen Library, UK; digitized images of complete
manuscript)
- Dante Alighieri
- General Resources
- Works
- Criticism
- De re militari
(classical and medieval military studies) (Assoc. for the Advancement of Pre-Modern
Military Studies)
- DILS
Project (liturgical material in England before 1100)
- William Dunbar
- Early English Sonnets
(Sonnet Central)
- Everyman (Anniina
Jokinen)
- The Exile Home
Page (unique page of critical essays and reviews relating to medieval
exile literature) (Liz Broadwell, U. Penn)
- John Gower, Confessio
Amantis (U. Virginia)
- Gawain Poet
- Gregorian Chant
Home Page
- The
Harley Lyrics (Humanities Text Initiative, U. Michigan)
- Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
(medieval MSS.)
- Horses and Medieval
Culture: 600-1630 (International Museum of the Horse)
- Hwæt!
Old English in Context (learn basic OE)
- International Reynard
Society
- Julian of Norwich
- Margery Kempe
- William Langland
- The
Langland Home Page (Lawrence Warner, U. Penn)
- William Langland
(Anniina Jokinen)
- The
Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (UVA; "The long-range
goal of the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive is the creation of 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." Excellent site though still in progress.)
- Lollard Society HomePage
- John Lydgate
- The Canon of John
Lydgate Page (Stephen R. Reimer, U. Alberta) | Lydgate
Canon Project Description
- Sir Thomas Malory
(Anniina Jokinen)
- Medieval Drama (Electronic Text Center, U. Virginia)
- Medieval/Renaissance Wedding
Information [Temporarily Unavailable]
- Medieval Reproductions
Page(pictures of daggers, helmets, breastplates, gauntlets, etc.)
- Medieval
Studies Page (Isobel Stark, U. Sheffield)
- Middle English Romances:
A Website for The Norton Critical Edition (includes updates and corrections
for the printed edition) (Stephen H.A. Shepherd, Southern Methodist U.)
- Pearl
(Humanities Text Initiative, U. Michigan)
- The
Ormulum Project ("production of a new text edition, presenting the
entire text of the Ormulum, including changes and revisions, as contained
in Bodleian Library, MS. Junius 1") (Nils-Lennart Johannesson,U. Science
and Technology)
- Pater Noster:
The Lord's Prayer (collection of translations and adaptations of the Lord's
Prayer in English, from Old English to the present) (Catherine N. Ball, Georgetown
U.)
- Piers Plowman
- The Planets
and Their Children: A Blockbook of Medieval Popular Astrology ("a
hypermedia presentation of a blockbook or "Planetenbuch", in which
I have attempted to make the 15th-century experience of reading a popular
astrology text accessible to a modern, nonspecialist audience") (Marianne
Hansen)
- Pre-1600 English
Ballads ("The goal of this project is to produce a short book of
"interesting" ballads from before 1600, containing sheet music and
lyrics, both in their original form, and in a form intelligible to a modern
listener") (Gregory Blount of Isenfir [Greg Lindahl] / Society for Creative
Anachronism)
- Recentiores
(currently includes Prudentias' "Liber Peristephanon" & the
Barlow Lectures on Dante's "Epistle to Cangrande") (gopher)
- Richard III Foundation, Inc. ("international
non-profit, tax-exempt organization . . . specializ[ing] in
the education and research of Richard III, his contemporaries and era")
- Roman Scotland: An
Exhibition ( Hunterian Museum, Glasgow)
- "The
Ruin" (hypertext of poem includes translation into modern English)
- RuneType: The Rune
Typology Project (Computerizing Runic Inscriptions at the History Museum
in Bergen) (searchable)
- So Funny, They Forgot
to Laugh: British and American Women's Comedy, 1100-1998 ("Women's
comedy has frequently been ignored or disparaged. We seek to change that.
Our mission is to furnish scholars and teachers with information about primary
and critical sources, and a sample course, on women's comic writing from 1100
to 1998") (Teresa Canosa & Diana Solomon, U. California, Santa Barbara)
- The Song of Roland
(Online Medieval and Classical Library)
- Society for Creative Anachronism:
Minstrel Homepage ("songs, filk, story-telling, and juggling, . .
. mostly Western Europe from the fall of Rome until 1600")
- Technology
of the Word in the Middle Ages (manuscript images) (Jim O'Donnell, U.
Penn)
- Les Tres
Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (Project ARTFL)
- Verticals of Troy: A
Study of Trojan Mythography in Medieval English Literature (especially
relevant to Geoffrey of Monmouth and John Lydgate) (Michael Ullyot)
- Virgil in Late Antiquity,
the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance: An Online Bibliography (David Wilson-Okamura)
- Wulfstan
- Wulfstan (writing as "Lupus"), The
Electronic Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (Sermon of the Wolf) ("This
edition allows you to point-and-click your way to a better understanding
of one of the most important and powerful sermons of the Anglo-Saxon world
. . . composed by Wulfstan, Bishop of York and Archbishop of Worcester,
in approximately AD 1014") (Melissa J. Bernstein, U. Rochester) Mirror
Site
- York
Play of the Crucifixion (U. Virginia)
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CRITICISM
& CRITICS (GENERAL) (for criticism of specific periods or authors, see
see above)
- James L. Matterer, "Medieval
Botanica: Mythical Plants of the Middle Ages"
- Medieval
Feminist Index - Scholarship on Women, Sexuality, and Gender (Margaret
Schaus)
- R.A. Shoaf's Home Page
(U. Florida)
- Papers from
the Cultural Frictions Conference (Georgetown U., 1995) (searchable) (HTML
by Jeffrey Cohen, George Washington U.)
- Kathleen Biddick (U. Notre Dame), "English-America:
Curricular Masks/Imperial Phantasmatics"
- Glenn Burger (U. Alberta), "Queer
Performativity and the Natural in Chaucer's Physician's and Pardoner's
Tales"
- Robert L. A. Clark (Kansas State U.) & Claire Sponsler (U. Iowa),
"Queer
Play: The Cultural Work of Crossdressing in Medieval Drama"
- Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington U.)
- "Masoch/Lancelotism"
- "Medieval
Masculinities"
- Leslie Dunton-Downer (Harvard U.), "The
Horror of Culture"
- Andrew Galloway (Cornell U.), "Private
Selves and the Intellectual Marketplace in Late 14th Century England:
The Case of the Two Usks"
- Martin Irvine (Georgetown U.), "The
Pen(is), Castration, and Subjectivity: Abelard's Negotiations of Gender"
- Gerhard Jaritz (Krems an der Donau/Budapest), "Everyday
Life in the Middle Ages and Digital Image Analysis" ("research
into the history of everyday life and of material culture have been starting
to concentrate on the analysis of [patterns of] messages borne by images")
(CHart)
- Steven F. Kruger (Queens C., City U. of New York), "Medieval
Christian (Dis)identifications: Muslims and Jews in Buibert of Nogent"
- JoAnn Moran, "Homosexuality
and the Romance of the Rose"
- D. Vance Smith & Michael Uebel (U. Virginia), "Leaving
the Fold" (internet version currently unavailable)
- Sarah Stanbury (C. of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts), "Visibility
Politics in Chaucer's Knight's Tale"
- Robert Stein (New York SUC, Purchase), "Medieval,
Modern, Post-Modern: The Middle Ages in a Post Modern Perspective"
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