Some Internet Resources for Medieval Literary Study

Internet Resources

This webpage lists some links that are helpful to students in our course. While it doesn't pretend to be a comprehensive listing, it does give students a good place to investigate course topics. Look over these links and investigate more about the scholarship available to your studies through WWW resources.

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Old English | Texts | Dictionaries

General Resources

• Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
  Georgetown University website with many "threads" and links to a wealth of resources for studying medieval literature.

• Anthology of Middle English Literature
  Set of webpages for works read in our course including links to texts, background, bibliographies, and on-line criticism.

• NEH EdSitement
  National Endowment for Humanities projects for teachers, includes teacher's plan for studying the Wife of Bath and links to various medieval literature sources.

• Edwin Duncan's Website
  Edwin Duncan, a teacher at Towson State University, provides helpful links to Web resources on the English language and medieval literature. He also includes material for his own courses.

• Studium: Collected Web Resources on Medieval Topics
  A listing organized by a medieval studies student group at the University of North Carolina--lots of helpful links for research.

• Norton Anthology Topics
  The Middle Ages section of this website has topics and links for many works read in our paperback Norton Anthology IA. You might check its other pages for use in other courses.

Chaucer Websites

• Harvard Chaucer Website
  Excellent set of webpages for Middle English and Chaucer, including individual tales, cultural background topics, literary contexts, and Middle English language (even pronunciation samples).

• Chaucer Metapage
  A central place to find various Chaucer scholarship and study helps.

Middle English Language

• Harvard ME language exercises
  Set of exercises on individual sounds, short phrases, and Canterbury Tales passages. You'll need a computer with a speaker.

• Alan Baragona's passages
  Links to readings of various passages in the Chaucerian canon.

Old English

• Catherine Ball's Old English Pages
  One of Catherine Ball's specialties is teaching Old English so she has arranged a helpful website with links to all kinds of material on Old English, including links to manuscripts for students to look over.

• Old English Writing
  

  • Two websites that include samples of OE writing are at the University of Virginia and Northwestern University. Peter Baker provides a sample OE alphabet for students in his OE courses at UVa. Catherine Regan has organized an interactive page where a student can recognize OE graphs in a manuscript. Both sites offer other interesting OE information and activities for Anglo-Saxonphiles.

• Seamus Heaney's Beowulf
  Translator's statement on his work and reviews of it.

Medieval Texts and Text Search Programs

• University of Virginia Middle English Texts
  A large collection of Middle English texts, including The Canterbury Tales, available through the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center. The site includes a word search capability.

Dictionaries

• Oxford English Dictionary website
  This website is the base for an on-line Oxford English Dictionary, the most complete historical dictionary of English, and a set of search engines for research in the OED. Click the buttons for different displays of information: spelling, etymology, and date chart. Available on campus; off-campus dial in must have certain browser preferences loaded. (If you can't get to the University of Michigan Middle English Dictionary, the OED would be your next best-bet to investigate words in a Middle English poem.)

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