Links to medieval sites

What follows is by no means a comprehensive list of what is available on the Web, and I do not vouch for the accuracy of them all. The most reliable sites are those maintained by universities, programs affiliated with universities, and individuals affiliated with universities. However, there are many sites maintained by individuals (many are members of the Society for Creative Anachronism, and have wonderfully obscure specialties in medieval material culture) that are worth visiting because they have been meticulously researched and judiciously presented. I've listed sites by the themes which correspond to my medieval survey syllabus (graduate and undergraduate), but also include a miscellaneous category and a general research category.

If any of the sites below change their URL or disappear, please drop me a line at kakelly@lynx.neu.edu. And, of course, I'm always looking for new sites or overlooked sites to add.


Defining the Middle Ages



 


Anglo-Saxons, Vikings . . . and Klingons

Angelcynn: OE text and ModE translation of the Finnsburg Fragment

Angelcynn: on Beowulf

Old English Library

Old English Pages: Texts, translations, etc.

Old English at the University of Virginia

Dates in Anglo-Saxon History

Corpus of Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early
Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art

British Library: The Digital Library: Beowulf and Magna Carta


Lyrics, Medieval and Modern

Medieval Lyrics

Medieval Lyrics @Auburn U

 


The (Secular and Religious) Body and the Self: Medicine, Theology, Law, Magic

Obstetrics

Medieval Science

 Aberdeen Bestiary Project

William Langland (Piers Plowman)

Piers in Modern Translation @ Harvard's Chaucer Page

Piers Plowman @UMich, ed. A.V.C. Schmidt

Children and Families

The Medieval Marketplace

The Medieval City

Hali Meidenhad (Holy Maidenhead), ed. F.J. Furnivall, rev. Oswald Cockayne

Sawles Ward (Soul's Guardian), ed. R. M. Wilson

Secreta Secretorum

Meals and Manners @ Harvard's Chaucer Page
 


Beyond Europe: Maps
and Travel Literature

The Vinland Map

The Psalter Map (1250)

The British Library: Maps

 


Love and Romance

Andreas Capellanus @ Harvard's Chaucer page

Courtly Love @ Harvard's Chaucer Page

Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, ed. F. N. Robinson, 2nd ed.
(plus the rest of the Canterbury Tales)

Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy @ the University of Virginia

and @ Harvard's Chaucer Page

 


Arthurian Romance: Text, Art, and Film

Sir Thomas Malory, Morte Darthur, Caxton's printed edition, ed. H. O. Sommer
note: we're using Vinaver's edition based on the Winchester Manuscript
 


The Idea of History

some background on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Lincoln Diocese Documents, 1450-1544, ed. Andrew Clark

history links @ Harvard's Chaucer Page

 


Religious Texts: Drama, Passion, and Vision

Pearl, ed. E V. Gordon, rev. Iva Gordon

Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich, A Revelation of Love, ed. Marion Glasscoe

An Introduction to Julian of Norwich, by Georgia Ronan Crampton, TEAMS

Margery Kempe

An Introduction to Margery Kempe, by Lynn Staley, TEAMS

Mapping Margery Kempe

Medieval Theatre

Everyman

Everyman, ed. A. C. Cawley

Middle English Plays


General Resources

the first stop: Georgetown's Labyrinth

the second stop: The Chaucer Metapage

Larry Benson's Chaucer page @ Harvard

The Voice of the Shuttle: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval

Middle English Literature@ the Labyrinth

Corpus of Middle English Verse and Prose

The Middle English Collection at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia

Anthology of Middle English Literature

Grover Furr's Comprehensive Guide to Everything Medieval on the Web

 Athanor: Medieval Arts and Sciences

England: A Miscellany

On-Line Chaucer Bibliography

and for more specialized topics, see links @ Oral Reports


What other medievalists are doing in class

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