Library Web Resources for English: Medieval

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Medieval: older source texts

Patrologia Latina
The Patrologiae offers, in a single source, over a thousand years of the most influential works of late ancient and early medieval theology, philosophy, history, and literature. The Patrologia Latina (Series Latina) covers the Latin Fathers from Tertullian in A.D. 200 through Pope Innocent III (d. 1216).

Perseus Project
From Tufts University. Text and Translations, English Index, Art and Archeology, Atlas, Text Tools & Lexica, Historical Overview, Encyclopedia, Essays and Catalogs. Searchable.

Medieval: texts and text collections

Middle English Compendium
Access to the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated network of electronic resources, including a large collection of Middle English texts.

The Electronic Beowulf
As part of its strategic objectives for the year 2000, the British Library has made a commitment to increase access to its collections by use of imaging and network technology.

The English Poetry Full Text Database
From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library. English Poetry includes 4,450 works by 1,350 poets from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the nineteenth century.

English Verse Drama
From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library. English Verse Drama contains more than 1,500 works by around 450 named and approximately 230 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century through the unparalleled output of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period to the end of the nineteenth century.

Hwæt!
Designed for those who would like to learn some basic Old English without having to hold a grammar book in one hand and a dictionary in the other.

The Luminarium
Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485).

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
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.

REPRESENTATIVE POETRY ON-LINE
Includes about 1,650 English poems by about 260 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century. Poetry edited by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

The Middle English Collection
The Electronic Text Center, UVa.

The Complete Corpus of Old English
This database comprises over 3,000 different texts, and contains all surviving Old English text (excluding some variants). This copy at the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center is made available to UVa users only.

Medieval: related materials

Ambrosiana Archive, University of Notre Dame
The On-Line Catalogue of Ambrosiana Drawings. Of the 12,000 drawings in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, descriptions for 4711 drawings are currently available for on-line searching.

Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)
Extensive links to quotations, biographies, works, essays, additional sources for Chaucer, Gawain, Langlland, Julian of Norwich, Kempe, Malory, and medieval plays and lyrics.

Bodleian Library: Towards an Image Catalogue . . .
Four digitized images taken from the Bodleian Library's slide collection of manuscripts.

BYZANTINE & MEDIEVAL LINKS INDEX
This page attempts to track ALL Byzantine material on the Internet, and ALL significant entry points for Medieval studies. A large, well organized index.

Guide to Early Church documents
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.

Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
One of the largest and most comprehensive archives of medieval and Renaissance sources in the world.

A hundred highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Just like the version of the Highlights published in book form, the digital Highlights can be browsed and provide an extensive introduction and index. Adapted for digital distribution by members of the staff of the Library Research Department

The Labyrinth
The Labyrinth is a global information network providing free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University.

ORB: The On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. Searchable.

Paul Halsall's Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts.

Technology of the word
Manuscript images of the technology of the word in the Middle Ages.