Arthurnet Logs
Complete, searchable logs of the Internet scholarly conference "Arthurnet." An excellent
resource for the most current thinking of scholars and teachers, lively debates. You can search for
subject matter (e.g., "historical Arthur"), author (e.g., "Malory"), or contributor (e.g., "Laura
Hodges").
A Selected Bibliography of Arthurian Legend in Literature and the Arts
A Bibliography of Articles with Abstracts from Arthuriana
A Bibliography of Historical Materials Related to Arthurian Legend (courtesy of Lynn Nelson)
An Informal Bibliography of Knights and Armor
Homepage for the International Arthurian Society and its journal Arthuriana
An Arthuriana Chronology and A Gazetteer of Arthurian Sites
Persons, events, works, and places associated with the Arthurian legends from A.D. 175 to the present, by Chris Snyder of Marymount University.
King Arthur Aloud: Arthurian Audio Files
Readings of Arthurian texts in medieval Welsh, French, German, and English. Part of the Arthuriana Pedagogy Page.
A database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information. The project is sponsored by the University of Rochester and prepared in The Robbins Library, a branch of Rush Rhees Library. The Camelot Project has been designed by Alan Lupack, Curator of the Robbins Library, and Barbara Tepa Lupack.
Though a commercial venture, this site by Thomas Green provides a wide ranging and well organized survey of Arthur in literature and history.
A series of links from Britannia Internet Magazine, including a timeline of Arthurian Britain. A valuable site if used with care. The authors acknowledge that much of their material is supposition, but they don't always distinguish between what is historically documented and what is speculative.
Tennessee Bob's Chrétien Links
Links compiled by Dr. Robert D. Peckham of the University of Tennessee-Martin. Some web sites are in French.
Tristan and Isolt: Texts, Images, Basic Information (a subset of the Camelot Project)
International Marie de France Society
A site maintained at VCU for Marie de France, one of the great medieval authors and the only major female medieval writer of Arthurian material known so far. The site includes translations of Marie's "lais," mostly by Judy Shoaf, and historical and biographical background, as well as bibliography.
Online translations of the most famous Breton Arthurian tales with annotations by Judy Shoaf and other notable scholars.
The Lais of Marie de France Study Guide
A guide prepared by Paul Brians of Washington State University.
Many Realms of King Arthur (BookLook)
This site is intended mainly for kids, but some of the information and links are useful.
The Arthurian Society exists to explore the figure of King Arthur in history, literature and legend. The society was founded in 1982.
University of Idaho Arthurian Page
A scholarly page maintained by the University of Idaho's Arthurian Legend Club, Caliburn.
A discussion of the meaning of the words and the nature of the work by translator, John K. Bollard.
A digital facsimile of one of the earliest Arthurian texts. From the National Library of Wales. "The Book of Taliesin (Peniarth MS 2), dating from the first half of the fourteenth century, is one of the most famous Welsh manuscripts. It does not appear to have been known by its present title until the seventeenth century. The volume contains a collection of some of the oldest poems in Welsh, many of them attributed to the poet Taliesin who was active towards the end of the sixth century and sang the praise of Urien Rheged and his son Owain ab Urien. Other poems reflect the kind of learning with which the poet became associated, deriving partly from Latin texts and partly from native Welsh tradition. It is this manuscript which preserves the texts of famous poems such as 'Armes Prydein Fawr', 'Preiddeu Annwfn' (which refers to Arthur and his warriors sailing across the sea to win a spear and a cauldron), and elegies to Cunedda and Dylan eil Ton, as well as the earliest mention in any western vernacular of the feats of Hercules and Alexander."
There are 18 images from various manuscripts, 8 per page. Use the Browse feature to scroll through all the illuminations.
Manuscript of The Lancelot-Grail Cycle
Images from Yale's MS 229, containing the last part of the cycle, one of the finest examples of illuminated Arthurian manuscripts. Held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
An image from an illuminated manuscript of a Dutch version of Lancelot, the Haagse Lancelotcompilatie or Roman van Lancelot, with a description of the manuscript and the work.
A Catholic translation of the Vulgate Bible into English, often closer to the Latin text that medieval authors would have known than any more modern translations, Catholic or Protestant. If a student can't read the medieval Latin Vulgate itself, this is the translation to use. Also available at Intratext Library, which contains a built-in concordance for many of the words.
An excellent first stop for research into Catholic doctrine and the history of the medieval Catholic Church.
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval studies.
Bernard of Clairvaux's The New Knighthood (De laude novae militae)
The prologue and first five chapters of the defense of the Knights Templar by the early 12th-century Cistercian mystic, St. Bernard of Clairvaux. His ideas of a new, spiritual knighthood influenced the earliest stories of the Holy Grail. This is part of the ORB web site. The translation is by Conrad Greenia.
Fordham University's website with links to translations of many medieval texts.
A prime site for all medieval resources on the World Wide Web.
Essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Le Morte Darthur (among other medieval texts) from the Luminarium Anthology of Middle English Literature. (Note that student essays are marked with an "s.")
The Poem as Green Girdle: Commercium in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight a book by R. Allen Shoaf, originally published in 1984, now available in its entirety on the Web. Includes a bibliography.
Stories of Sir Gawain Texts of popular medieval tales of Sir Gawain with commentaries and brief bibliography from the website of TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages). Works include The Greene Knight (a version of SGGK), The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain, The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle (a version of Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale"), and Ywain and Gawain (a Middle English version of Chrétien's Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion).
The Medieval Review, both a browsable and searchable collection of electronic reviews of books on all medieval subjects, literary, historical, and cultural. A good way to find out about new books on Arthurian Legend.
A collection of links to websites with guidelines for citing material from the World Wide Web, CD-ROMs and other electronic sources. The emphasis is on MLA format, but there is information for APA, Chicago, and Turabian, as well.
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