The Canon of John Lydgate Project

Some Other Sites for Medieval Literature and Manuscript Studies

Chaucer on the Web
King Arthur
Robin Hood
Medieval Literature more generally
Medieval Manuscripts and their Decoration
Castles, Cathedrals, and Towns
General Sites for Medieval Studies
Journals
Institutions and Societies
General aids to literary study and composition

Chaucer on the Web

• The Chaucer Meta-page
• Larry Benson's Geoffrey Chaucer Website including many texts, a concordancing tool, and a Chaucer glossary
• The Canterbury Tales; with the full Middle English text and an extensive glossary
• Electronic edition of the "General Prologue" to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
• 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)
• Troilus and Criseyde (Online Medieval and Classical Library)
• The Legend of Good Women (Online Medieval and Classical Library)
• The Canterbury Tales Project (Peter Robinson is putting all of the manuscript versions of each of the tales on a series of CD-ROMs)
• Professor Zatta's Chaucer Page
• Professor Hanly's Chaucer Scriptorium
• eChaucer: Chaucer in the Twenty-First Century: Gerard NeCastro's Chaucer site, including electronic versions of several Middle English texts
• Online Chaucer bibliography (from Studies in the Age of Chaucer)
• The Map of Early Modern London (an interactive version of the "Agas" map of Elizabethan London (not greatly different from Chaucer's London), with commentaries on particular sites from the works of John Stow and other historians)
• London Atlas: The Bolles Collection on the History of London; maps of London from 1600 to the present

King Arthur

• Thomas Green's Arthurian Resources: a guide to current research on King Arthur
• Teaching King Arthur: Arthuriana's "pedagogy" page
• Arthurian Bibliography: The Camelot Project's bibliographies
• The Camelot Project: Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies

Robin Hood

• Robin Hood Booklist, by Cindy Title Moore
• Robin Hood: Critical Studies; compiled by John Chandler; part of the Camelot Project
• Robin Hood Films; from the Camelot Project
• Broadside Ballads in the collections of the Bodleian Library, Oxford (including copies of many of the original Robin Hood broadsides: go to the search page and look for "Robin Hood")
• The Word on the Street: the National Library of Scotland's online collection of broadsides

Medieval Literature more generally

• The TEAMS editions of various Middle English texts (includes the full texts of most of the TEAMS published volumes)
• A collection of Middle English texts, on-line at the University of Virginia
• An Anthology of Medieval English Literature, by Anniina Jokinen
• Online Literary Resources: Medieval: Jack Lynch's medieval links page
• Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies: Saints' Lives (Hagiography)
• Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies: Alain of Lille, De Planctu Naturae (Of the Complaint of Nature), in English translation (Moffat's translation)
• The Spread of Scottish Printing: the first book printed in Scotland: a facsimile of the 1508 Chepman and Myller print of "Maying and Disport of Chaucer" (John Lydgate's "The Complaint of the Black Knight")
• On Pilgrims and Pilgrimage: a website (and CD-ROM) produced by the Centre for Christianity and Culture, University of York
• Professor McGillivray's Old English Course, including an online grammar text and selections from Old English literature
• The Medieval Season: website to accompany a series of television programs on topics in the study of the Middle Ages (BBC-TV; the programs were broadcast in the Spring of 2008)
• "The Routes of English": a website on the history of the English language, to accompany a radio series on the subject

Medieval Manuscripts and their Decoration

• University of Glasgow Library, exhibition: The World of Chaucer: Medieval Books and Manuscripts
• DScriptorium: Images reproduced from medieval manuscripts
• The Manuscript Collection: Illuminated Manuscript Pages from the World's Leading Museums
• Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
• Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford University: digital images of manuscript pages
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University (facsimiles of complete manuscripts, from the Bodleian Library and also the libraries of various colleges)
• Manuscripts from the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (this site will be available only by subscription as of Oct. 2009)
• Free Library of Philadelphia: medieval and Renaissance manuscripts
• Choix de miniatures des manuscrits de l'Université de Liège
• Medieval Manuscripts at Stanford
• The Digital Scriptorium: manuscripts from Columbia University and the Bancroft Library, Berkeley
• The British Library
• British Library: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
• British Library: Online Gallery; the Gallery includes reproductions from a number of the Library's most famous manuscripts
• British Library: Online Gallery: Illuminated Manuscripts (medieval European)
• British Library: Online Gallery: Remarkable Manuscripts (various manuscripts, ancient and modern, from around the world)
• British Library: Online Gallery: manuscripts of important works of English literature
• British Library: Online Gallery: Geoffrey Chaucer
• British Library: Online Gallery: The Lindisfarne Gospels
• Bibliothèque nationale de France
• BNF on-line exhibition: The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380): 1000 Illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts
• The Library of Congress
• The Library of Congress: Exhibits
• The Library of Congress Exhibits: Rome Reborn (the Vatican Library Exhibit)
• Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World: a New York Public Library exhibition, including images from NYPL medieval manuscripts and early printed books
• 100 Highlights of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (national library of the Netherlands)
• The Medieval Manuscript Collection of Richard and Mary Rouse: An Exhibition
• A facsimile of a fifteenth-century Book of Hours (from D & D Galleries)
• Les très riches heures of Jean, Duc de Berry (online exhibition at the WebMuseum)
• Jean, Duc de Berry, the "Petites Heures"
• Online facsimile of "The Auchinleck Manuscript" (a collection of medieval romances and other texts; L. H. Loomis argued that Chaucer himself owned the manuscript; certainly the "Tale of Sir Thopas" is like some of the romances in this manuscript)
• The Electric Scriptorium: Approaches to the Electronic Imaging, Transcription, Editing and Analysis of Medieval Manuscript Texts: A Physical & Virtual Conference
• Rega Wood, Medieval Latin Paleography (how to read manuscripts)
• Timothy W. Seid, Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts

Castles, Cathedrals, and Towns

• Castles on the web
• The Castles of Wales
• Photographs of Maulbronn Abbey
• Pilgrimage to Santiago at Compostela, among the most important European pilgrimage sites
• Stephen Alsford's History of Medieval Boroughs, with links to other sites on medieval towns
• The Regia Anglorum website (a site on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Britain, including a "visit" to the imaginary Village of Wichamstow, where you can visit various buildings and people)

General Sites for Medieval Studies

• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
• NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources (including subpages on Medieval Art & Architecture; Medieval History & Archaeology; Medieval Literature; Medieval Law, Music, & Religion)
• Voice of the Shuttle: Medieval English Literature: Resources for the study of Old and Middle English literature
• Medieval Resources: Dan Mosser's medieval links page
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe (on the Black Death in 14th-century Italy)
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index (a bibliographical database of studies of the issues of women and gender in the Middle Ages)
• Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
• Perseus Project search tools: a collection of tools for searching the digital collections of the Perseus Project, including Latin and Greek texts and dictionaries
• Orbis latinus (an electronic version of Graesse's guide to the Latin forms of European place names)
• RBMS/BSC Latin Place Names File (another guide to place names in Latin, especially as encountered in the study of early printed books)
• "Saga Land" (formerly the "Historical-Archaeological Experimental Center"), Lejre, Denmark: a recreated prehistoric village (complete with sacrificial bog); also a working eighteenth-century farm, and other archaeological experiments; the centre is located a short distance from the site of Hrothgar's Heorot, in an area rich with ancient burial mounds and stone circles and other prehistoric remains

Journals

• Arthuriana: The Journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society
• Essays in Medieval Studies: Proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association
• Traditio: a journal of studies in antiquity and the Middle Ages (the website includes an index to vols. 1-50)
• Viator: a scholarly journal of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Institutions and Societies

• The Medieval and Early Modern Institute (MEMI), University of Alberta
• Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
• UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
• University of York, Centre for Medieval Studies
• University of Leeds, Institute for Medieval Studies. Includes the program for their annual International Medieval Congress
• Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo; Medieval Institute. Includes the program for their annual International Congress on Medieval Studies
• The Canadian Society of Medievalists
• The Medieval Academy of America

General aids to literary study and composition

• The Literary Encyclopedia: a collection of tools and guides for the study of literature
• The Virtual Classroom Glossary of Literary Terms, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
• A glossary of terms in classical rhetoric
• Queen's University Writing Centre: Online Handouts (aids for improving academic essays)
• Guide to Academic Integrity, University of Alberta (the "Truth In Education" program)
• 10 Ways to Write Papers without Plagiarism
• Academic Support Centre, University of Alberta: Effective Writing Resources
• C4W: The Centre for Writers, University of Alberta; also see their "GramWOW" advertisement on YouTube:
• GramWOW ad

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