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Web Resources

There are many websites that provide access to primary and secondary resources pertaining to Medieval Studies. Some are listed below. If searching for additional sites on Google, be sure to note the author/sponsor of the site and see if it is a credible source.

  • The Camelot Project- Arthurian Texts, Images, Bibliographies, and Basic Information. "THE CAMELOT PROJECT is designed to make available in electronic format 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."
  • Anthology of Middle English Literature - Geoffrey Chaucer; John Gower; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; William Langland and Piers Plowman; Julian of Norwich; Margery Kempe; Thomas Malory; John Lydgate; Thomas Hoccleve; Medieval Plays; Middle English Lyrics
  • Internet Medieval Sourcebook
  • The Lollard Society - Bibliographies of primary and secondary sources on Religion, Language, Literature
  • Middle English Compendium -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 a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.
  • Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature

Medieval Manuscripts

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries & bibliographies are valuable for providing background information that can help you narrow your research topic. The bibliographies provide lists of additional resources, ranging from key scholarship on a particular author or literary period, to finding poems or reviews in older journals and magazines.

  • The Cambridge History of Medieval English literature
  • The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature - PR255 .C35 1999
  • The Oxford History of English Literature:
    •    Middle English Literature - PR83 .O93 v.1 pt.2
    •    English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages - PR83 .O93 v.2 pt.2
  • Old and Middle English Literature - PN41 .D484 1978 v.146
  • A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases - DA 129 .C67 2004
  • Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature - PN669 .E53 2000
  • Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs - GR35 .M43 2000 v.1-2

Medieval Studies Journals

  • Speculum -- Published quarterly since 1926, was the first scholarly journal in North America devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages
  • Essays in Medieval Studies Proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association -- An interdisciplinary journal of medieval studies
  • Journal of medieval and early modern studies -- Publishes articles informed by historical inquiry and alert to issues raised by contemporary theoretical debate
  • Medieval Review -- Publishes reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies
  • Comitatus -- Articles by graduate students and new scholars working in any field of the Middle Ages or the Renaissance
  • Arthuriana -- The quarterly for the International Arthurian Society - North American Branch. It is dedicated to all aspects of the Arthurian story from its inception in the Middle Ages to its enactments in the present moment.

Medieval Studies

General Guides and Resources

  • A Companion to Medieval Literature and Culture, c. 1350-c. 1500 -- PR255 .C653 2007
  • Medieval Writers and their Work: Middle English LIterature 1100-1500  -- PR255 .B8 2008
  • Companion to the Middle English Lyric  -- PR311 .C64 2005
  • Companion to Middle English Prose  -- PR255 .C655 2004
  • Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature  -- PR173 .C36 1991

Subjects: English