Selected Medieval Studies Links
Dr. Carol L. Robinson ~~ Updated: February 6, 2010
(These links have been selected and organized to serve the needs of my students in ENG 25001, but feel free to browse!)

General Information Medieval Literature Studies
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Andy Holt Virtual Library (Web for Medieval Source-based Textual Scholarship)
Consulting Medieval Manuscripts Online
The ORB (On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies)
Digital Scriptorium
Penn Parsed Corpora of Historial English
The Middle Ages: Introduction (Norton Topics Online)
Medieval Estates and Orders (Norton Topics Online)
Medieval England (History: Norman Kings to War of the Roses)
Audio Recordings of Medieval Texts (Norton Topics Online)
NetSERF (The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources)
Wessex Parallel WebTexts
Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank
Mediaevum.de (Medieval Studies on the Internet)
Voice of the Shuttle (Anglo-Saxon & Medieval)
Medieval Cultures: Multiculturalism in the British Isles Before 1000 (Karen Jolly)
The Labryrinth (One of the oldest esources for Medieval Studies--sadly, many links are dead!)
Early Manuscripts (Oxford University)
Images of Manuscripts (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford)
Book of Kells Images
International Center of Medieval Art
Luminarium (Anniina Jokinen)
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Medieval Women An Interactive Exploration!
Medieval Academic Discussion Groups (Edwin Duncan)
The Online Medieval & Classical Library
Maps of Great Britain (Images of Medieval Art and Architecture)
Stonehenge (Earth Mysteries)
CANTUS (A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant)
Corpus of Early Medieval Coins
The Planets and Their Children (A Blockbook of Medieval Popular Astrology)
TEAMS Middle English Texts

Anglo-Saxon England & Old English Prosody
Old English Aerobics
Write Your Name in RUNES (NOVA)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anglo-Saxon Studies: A Select Bibliography
Sutton Hoo (Current Archaeology)
Sutton Hoo Slideshow (33 images)
Ðæt Gettysburg Gemathel of Abraham Lincoln
(Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" translated into Old English--why not?)

The Venerable Bede--Ecclesiatical History of the English People
Bede Net
Biography: Bede the Venerable
The Venerable Bede (Lowell Wilson)
Bede on the Conversion of England to Christianity
The Venerable Bede (George Brown)
Study Questions (Debora B. Schwartz)
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England (The Online Books Page)
Issues for Discussion or Papers (Arnie Sanders)
Bede's World

"Cędmon's Hymn"
Cędmon's Hymn as marginal text in Bede's Latin History
Bede's Story of Cędmon
Reading Cędmon's "Hymn" with Someone Else's Glosses (Kevin S. Kiernan)
Three Version's of Cędmon's Hymn
Study Questions (Roxanne Kent-Drury)
Study Questions (Debora B. Schwartz)

"Dream of the Rood "
The Dream of the Rood (Translation)
The People & Language of Early Scotland (Included Video)
The Earliest English Poem
The Ruthwell Cross (Image)
The Ruthwell Cross (More Images)
The Ruthwell Cross
Ruthwell Cross Factssheet (BBC)  

Beowulf
Beowulf (Old English Text) 
Close-up of a facimile of a page of Beowulf (The Electronic Beowulf)
The Electronic Beowulf (A Helpful Guide)
The Linguistic and Literary Contexts of Beowulf (Norton Topics Online)
Beowulf on Steorarume (Beowulf in Cyberspace)

Other Old English Works
The Exeter Book
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
A-Z Index to Old English Poetry
The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Anglo-Saxon Charms
Leechbook Elf Charms
The Vercelli Book

Anglo-Norman England & Literature
12th-Century English Historical Writing
The First Crusade (Norton Topics Online)
Anglo-Norman Castles (Paul Martin Remfry)

Ancrene Wisse
Ancrene Wisse (Ed. Robert Hasenfratz) 
Ancrene Wisse Preface (Early English Text Society)
Linguistic "Standards" in Middle English: The Case of the Ancrene Wisse (Shannon Donaldson)
Ancrene Wisse (The Literary Encyclopedia)

Arthurian Literature
The Celts
Culhwvh ac Olwen (University of Wales Press)
The Camelot Project (The University of Rochester)
Gawain (The Camelot Project)
Compare with the other Loathly Lady works (The Wife of Bath's Tale & Sir Gawain and the Green Knight):
*****The Marriage of Sir Gawain (Introduction by Thomas Hahn)
*****The Marriage of Sir Gawain (Text edited by Thomas Hahn)
*****The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle (Introduction by Thomas Hahn)
*****The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle (Text edited by Thomas Hahn)
Arthuriana Chronology
Arthurian and Medieval Links (Norris J. Lacy)
Arthurian Resources (Thomas Green)
Arthurian Legend Home Page (Alan Baragona)
Glastonbury Abbey
King Arthur (Norton Topics Online)
Iron Age Celts (This is pretty goofy.)

Marie de France--"Lanval"
The Lais of Marie de France Study Guide
Marie de France (Other Women's Voices)
Marie de France
Arthurian Pedagogy Page (Audio File by Judy Shoaf)
Study Questions (Arnie Sanders)
Sir Launfal (Thomas Chestre's late 14th Century adpatation)

More Middle English and Late Medieval British Literature
Middle English Language Chronology
Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485) (Luminarium)
Middle English Phonology: General Principles
The Middle English Collection (Electronic Text Center, Univ. of Virginia Library)
Teach Yourself to Read Chaucer's Middle English (Larry D. Benson)
Middle English Compendium
York Corpus Christi Pageant Simulator (Dennis G. Jerz)
The York Plays

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Luminarium)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Website
Representative Poetry Online (Original Middle English Sample)
The Alliterative Revival
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Electronic Text Centery, University of Virginia Library)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse)
The Poem as Green Girdle: Commercium in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (R. Allen Shoaf)
King Arthur Aloud: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Arthuriana Pedagogy)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(QuickTime Player)
Aspects of Grotesque Realism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Robert Levine)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
& The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell
Source, Structure and Themes (Arnie Sanders)
Study Questions (Debora B. Schwartz)

Geoffrey Chaucer--The Canturbury Tales:
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

Interlinear Translation
Medieval Sourcebook
: Prologue to Wife of Bath's Tale (Parallel Texts)
Bibliography
The Wife of Bath's Prologue (Harvard University)
The Wife of Bath's Tale
(Harvard University)
Notes and Sources
(Jane Zatta)
Notes
(Arnie Sanders)
Notes
(Bruce Magee)
Notes
(Linda Appleton)
Notes
(D.W. Robertson)
Notes
(Christy Desmet)
Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale in Images

Chaucer Metapage
Geoffrey Chaucer Website (Harvard University)
Geoffrey Chaucer (Luminarium)
The Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales(Huntington Library Press)
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse: The Canterbury Tales
More Links (Including to online essays, that I made for my Chaucer class.)
Boethius
A Chaucer Cookery

Everyman
Everyman (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library)
Everyman (Medieval Sourcebook)
Everyman (Luminarium)
Everyman (Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse)

Study Guide (Arnie Sanders)

Medievalism(s) and Neomedievalism(s)
Beowabbit (This is cute.)
Beowulf (1999 Movie --I've blocked this one out of my functioning memory.)
Beowulf & Grendel (2005 Movie--This one takes an Existential approach, but it's a GREAT film!)
Beowulf (2007 Movie--A very liberal and hoaky adaptation; besides, Angeline Jolie scares me.....)
A Chaucer Cookery
Sir Gawain and Other Fingerlicious Stories (Peter Cook, Deaf Storyteller)
For Every Man, Woman, and Child (Willy Conley, Deaf Playwright)

Journals & Societies
Essays in Medieval Studies
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Medieval Forum
Comitatus A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The Medieval Review
The Chaucer Review
Perspicuitas
Arthuriana (The Journal of Arthurian Studies)

Studies in Medievalism

Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization
The Society for Creative Anachronism
International Marie de France Society
The Lollard Society
The New Chaucer Society
International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan Universit, Kalamazoo, MI)
The Medieval Academy of America