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English Vernacular Literature

Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse A text searchable database containing a large range of medieval texts. Very useful if You are trying to identify some text rather than just look up a title.

The Voice of the Shuttle, English Literature Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Links to a range of works of medieval literature online.

Robbins Library Home Page This provides a set of Middle English texts, useful bibliographies, and two fascinating literary web projects, The Camelot Project and The Robin Hood Project.

The Middle English Collection From the Electronic Text Centre, University of Virginia, a large selection of medieval literary texts, as well as An Anthology of Chancery English, a collection of the texts of a large number of chancery documents in English.

Middle English Compendium A corpus of Middle English prose and verse online and includes an associated bibliography and Middle English dictionary, which are both now freely available on the open web.

Luminarium: Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485) Links to electronic editions of various Middle English works, as well as some essays and contextual material. This includes Middle English Lyrics a site with texts of English lyric poems and images from manuscripts. There are also links to other sites with texts.

The Geoffrey Chaucer Website Chaucer's works in Middle English and modern English, other authors, contextual material, social history and linguistics.

The Wanderer This is an edition of an Anglo-Saxon poem from The Exeter Book with page facsimiles, a running transcription in a separate frame, glossary and translation. Very tricky stuff and indispensable for anyone into Old English paleography (not to mention poetry!).

Beowulf in Hypertext From McMaster University, the most famous of Anglo-Saxon poems.

Wessex Parallel Web Texts Scholarly but accessible electronic editions, especially of medieval English lyric poems, and translations of longer Middle English works. Academic editions have finally escaped "default font on white background" mode and are presented in a well organised and designed site.

The Electronic Sermo Lupi ad Anglos From the University of Rochester, transcriptions from five manuscript texts of the Sermon of the Wolf to the English, a significant 11th century English text, with a translation and glossary and one manuscript image.

Texts on Music in English A set of plain vanilla text files of writings in English on the subject of music theory and aesthetics from the middle ages to the 17th century.

Medieval Imagination Course resources from the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, largely consisting of links to literary sources and appropriate background.

 

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