Literary Resources -- Medieval

• Mailing lists and calls for papers (see also the Labyrinth's page of Medieval Conferences)
• Voice of the Shuttle -- Anglo-Saxon and Medieval
• Course Syllabi
• General:
  • The Labyrinth (Georgetown) -- Without exception the best site on the Web for Medieval studies. Impeccably scholarly and well organized. O si sic omnes!
  • Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Paul Halsall, Fordham) -- Superb collection of primary texts on medieval culture.
  • Argos: Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet (Univ. of Evansville) -- A "limited area search" engine, which restricts indexed items to only those concerning the ancient and medieval worlds. A good place to start on a search on these areas.
  • ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (Laura V. Blanchard and Carolyn Schriber, Rhodes College) -- An impressive, ambitious, and very scholarly collaborative collection of resources, mostly for students, including an in-progress encyclopedia, a collection of electronic texts, bibliographies, and annotated links. "The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World-Wide Web." First-rate.
  • WWW Medieval Resources (Dan Mosser, Virginia Tech) -- A good collection of links to other medieval sites, databases, and mailing lists.
  • Luminarium (Anniina Jokinen) -- An attractive anthology of medieval and early modern texts. Very graphics-heavy.
  • Medieval Academic Discussion Groups (Edwin Duncan, Towson) -- A thorough list of electronic discussion groups.
  • Journals:
    • Exemplaria (R. Allen Shoaf and Judith P. Shoaf, Florida) -- A refereed journal of theory in Medieval and Renaissance studies. Requires frames.
    • Essays in Medieval Studies (Illinois Medieval Association) -- Several volumes of the journal in Gopher format.
  • Centers, Programs, Institutions:
    • Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University -- Information on the Institute and its annual meeting in Kalamazoo.
    • Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor Studies (Univ. of Kent) -- Information on the Centre.
    • Centre for Renaissance and Medieval Studies (Glasgow) -- Information on the Centre.
    • Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Univ. of Oklahoma) -- Information on the Center.
    • AVISTA (NYU) -- The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science and Art. Information on the Association.
  • Arthur:
    • Arthurian Legend Home Page (Alan Baragona, VMI) -- A handy collection of links, bibliographies, and articles on Arthur.
    • Arthuriana (Bonnie Wheeler, SMU) -- Information on the society and its publications.
  • Paleography and Manuscripts:
    • Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web (Timothy W. Seid, Brown) -- Illustrated guide to paleography.
    • Commission of Paleography and Codicology of Medieval Manuscripts in Austria -- Information on Austrian resources, with some links. In German.
    • Images from the Book of Kells (Wisconsin) -- Some high-resolution scans.
    • Illuminated Manuscript Images from the Bodleian Library (Oxford) -- A few dozen images; thumbnails lead to high-resolution scans.
  • The Exile Home Page (Liz Broadwell, Penn) -- Temporarily down.
  • CANTUS Database of Gregorian Chant -- A searchable Gopher database of Gregorian chants.
  • Guide to Early Church Documents (Jim O'Donnell, Penn) -- "This hypertext document contains pointers to Internet-accessible files relating to the early church, including canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and other historical texts relavant to church history."
  • The Online Medieval and Classical Library (Douglas B. Killings, DL SunSITE) -- "A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization." Dozens of medieval texts, most in translation.
  • Medieval & Renaissance History (NYU) -- A few dozen links on culture and history in the Middle Ages.
  • NetSERF (CUA) -- A large collection of links on medieval culture.
  • Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (MEMDB) (Rutgers) -- "Its aim is to provide scholars with an expanding library of information in electronic format on the medieval and early modern periods of European history, circa 800-1815 C.E." Contains information on historical prices and currency exchange.
  • European Medieval Drama (Leeds) -- Information on the annual conference and hundreds of links.
  • Nominalism and Medieval Literature: A Bibliography (Richard J. Utz, Univ. of Northern Iowa) -- An extensive and learned bibliography of secondary works.
  • Medieval Studies at Stony Brook -- Information on the SUNY program, along with a good selective guide to Internet resources.
  • Feminist Studies:
    • Medieval Feminist Index: Scholarship on Women, Sexuality, and Gender (Haverford) -- A searchable index which "covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages." "MFI covers over 300 journals as well as many essay collections devoted in large part to topics dealing with women, sexuality, or gender. However, no year's worth of publications is completely indexed yet." Graphics-heavy.
    • Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (Iowa) -- Information on the Society, with a few links.
    • Women Writers of the Middle Ages (Bonnie Duncan, Millersville) -- Bibliographies texts, essays. Haphazard organization and heavy on the graphics, but some good links.
• Old English:
  • The Electronic Beowulf (Kentucky) -- "A full-color electronic facsimile of Cotton Vitellius A. xv. ... The archive already includes fiber-optic readings of hidden letters and ultraviolet readings of erased text in the early 11th-century manuscript; full electronic facsimiles of the indispensable 18th-century transcripts of the manuscript; and selections from important 19th-century collations, editions, and translations." Only samples are available on-line.
  • Old English Pages (Cathy Bll, Georgetown) -- "An encyclopedic compendium of resources for the study of Old English and Anglo-Saxon England. Now part of ORB, the On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies."
  • The Electronic Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (Melissa J. Bernstein, Rochester) -- Annotated hypertext. Requires frames.
  • Hwæt! (Cathy Ball, Georgetown) -- Learn Old English through reading.
  • Old English at UVA -- Miscellaneous resources, many on UVa only, but some quirky things (audio files of spoken Old English, computer typefaces, &c.) not available elsewhere.
• Middle English:
  • The Middle English Collection (Virginia) -- Large librtary of Middle English texts. Some publicly available, others restricted to Virginians.
  • Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English (Penn) -- A massive corpus of heavily parsed Middle English texts.
  • TEAMS Middle English Texts (Rochester) -- "The goal of the TEAMS Middle English text series is to make available to teachers and students texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily available in student editions." Dozens of glossed texts in Middle English, each with a good introduction.
  • The Middle English Compendium (Michigan) -- Provides "easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated network of electronic resources." Free through January 1999, then available for a fee.
  • Chaucer:
    • Geoffreychaucer.org (David Wilson-Okamura, MacAlester College) -- Very useful collection of information on Chaucer, including an annotated bibliography, commentary, biographies, images, and links. O si sic omnes!
    • Chaucer Pedagogy: The Electronic Canterbury Tales Home Page (Daniel T. Kline, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage) -- Very extensive guide to the Canterbury Tales, with annotated texts, translations, contexts, and links. O si sic omnes!
    • Online Chaucer Bibliography -- Telnet to a large on-line bibliography of Chaucer studies.
    • The Canterbury Tales Project (Sheffield) -- Information on the CD-ROM project, including technical information on textual scholarship.
    • A Limited Canterbury Tales Bibliography (M. Hanly, WSU) -- A few dozen items without annotation.
    • Chaucer: A Semi-Systematic, Serendipitous Bibliography (Baragona, VMI) -- Several dozen items, arranged by topic, without annotation.
    • A Glossarial DataBase of Middle English (Larry Benson, Michigan) -- Fully parsed Canterbury Tales.
    • A Basic Chaucer Glossary (Edward Duncan, Towson) -- Text-only list of a few hundred common Chaucerian words.
    • The Canterbury Tales -- Annotated with links from text to a rudimentary glossry; requires frames. More commercial than scholarly.
  • Julian of Norwich:
    • Julian of Norwich: Her 'Showings' and Their Contexts (Julia Bolton Holloway) -- "An Internet version of the Julian Library Portfolio, a collection of booklets which began as a series of lectures given to Quakers on Medieval Mystics." Dozens of essays and links. Admirably extensive, though directed at the faithful rather than the scholarly.
  • Langland:
    • Langland Home Page (Lawrence Warner, Penn) -- Pointers to all the major Langland resources on the Net.
    • Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (Hoyt N. Duggan, Virginia) -- "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 text. A sample is available now, with essays on the project itself.
  • John Lydgate:
    • The Canon of John Lydgate Page (Alberta) -- Extensive information on the project to identify the Lydgate canon.
  • William of Ockham:
    • William of Ockham's Dialogus (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi) -- Superb electronic edition and translation of a major work of medieval philosophy. O si sic omnes!
  • York Corpus Christi Play Simulator -- PSim 2.1 (Dennis G. Jerz, Univ. of Wisconsin -- Eau Claire) -- A novel use of technology to show the progress of the York play through the city. Still a little buggy. Requires Java.
  • The Planets and Their Children (Marianne Hansen, Cornell) -- Illustrated hypertext blockbook on medieval popular astrology.
  • Middle English Romances: A Website for the Norton Critical Edition (SMU) -- Includes a good set of links. Frustratingly graphics-heavy.
  • The Lollard Society Homepage -- Information on the Society, with links and a bibliography.
• Continental:
  • Italian:
    • Duecento: Italian Poetry from the Origins to Dante (Italy) -- "Il Duecento è un archivio che raccoglie testi della poesia italiana antica, del periodo che va dalle origini fino a Dante. Nel corso degli ultimi anni, ho raccolto un grande corpus testuale, probabilmente il più grande archivio del genere, e comunque l'unico disponibile in rete." In Italian. Requires frames.
    • Boccaccio:
      • The Decameron Web (Brown) -- Impressive site on Boccaccio, with texts, contexts, bibliographies, maps, and a search engine. Text in English and Italian. Requires frames.
    • Dante:
      • The World of Dante (Deborah Parker, Virginia) -- "A hypermedia environment for the study of the Inferno." Impressive experimental approach to the Commedia.
      • Renaissance Dante in Print (Chicago) -- Illustrated exhibition of 15th- and 16th-c. impressions.
      • Dante Society (Princeton) -- Information on the Society, with many links to other resources.
      • American Dante Bibliography (Richard Lansing, Brandeis) -- Indispensable collection of annotated bibliographies of Dante scholarship.
  • French:
    • The Charrette Project -- "A complex, scholarly, multi-media electronic archive containing a medieval manuscript tradition -- that of Chrétien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot, ca. 1180)."
    • Vincent of Beauvais/Vincentius Bellovacensis (Hans Voorbij, Utrecht, Netherlands) -- "The Vincent of Beauvais page aims to be an aid for scholars who are not directly involved in research on Vincent of Beauvais and his works, but who come into contact with Vincent while pursuing other research projects." Bibliographies, lists of papers, electronic editions, a newsletter, and information on current research.
  • Norse:
    • RUNER Project (Norway) -- Information on various projects. In English and Norwegian.
    • Database of Nordic Neo-Latin Literature (Norway) -- A well-designed, scholarly, and searchable database of Latin-language literature from the Norse countries, with supporting material.