Texts from and about the Medieval Period

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• Primary documents for British History
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Middle Ages
  • Texts and other resources
  • Norton Online Archive
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
• Project Gutenberg
  • Online e-texts...
• Anglo-Saxon
  • The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records
  • Cynewulf's Elene (Elizabeth Trelenberg's e-edition)
  • Anglo-Saxon Charms (Karen Jolly's translations)
  • Caedmon's Hymn (a work in progress...)
  • The "Dream of the Rood" and the Ruthwell Cross
  • Ælfric's Homilies on Judith, Esther, and the Maccabees (ed. Stuart Lee)
  • Anglo-Saxon texts
    • An FTP site for downloading Anglo-Saxon e-texts...
• Old English Resources
  • Links to e-texts, instructional software, MS images, fonts, CD-ROM, and Anglo-Saxon clip-art...
• Middle English
  • Ancrene Wisse
    • An online hypertext of Ancrene Wisse (work-in-progress)...
  • Book of the Duchess
    • Murray McGillivray's hypertext of The Book of the Duchess...
  • Usk's Testament of Love (R. A. Shoaf): includes several editions and other resources
  • Robin Hood Text Archive
  • The Julian of Norwich Web Site
  • UVa Middle English Texts
    • Middle English texts in electronic format (University of Virginia)...
  • TEAMS Middle English Texts Online
    
• ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
  • "The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World-Wide Web."
• Luminarium Anthology of Medieval Literature
  • Anniina Jokinen's page includes links to texts, essays, and other resources...
• Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word: Money, Images,
  and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry
  • A "postprint" electronic edition courtesy of the author, R. A. Shoaf...
• "Reading the Book of the Heart from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century"
  • an online essay by Eric Jager. The essay is drawn in part from his recent publication, The Book of the Heart, and traces the history of the metaphor of the self as a text. (Note: this is a University of Chicago Press site.)
• Database of Old Norse Runic Inscriptions
  • Although there are both an English and a Norwegian search, the results are (apart from the Runic texts, of course) returned in Norwegian (Bokmaal). During Norwegian office hours (7-15 GMT) the response may be sluggish at times...
• Marie de France's Bisclavret
  • Old French text of Bisclavret ...
• Marie de France's Bisclavret
  • Old Norse text of Bisclavret ...
• Latin Vulgate Bible Texts
  • An FTP site for downloading texts of the Vulgate Bible (archived as individual books)...
• Latin Liturgy Association
  • Texts of the Latin Mass with English translation and other materials ...
• The Rule of St. Benedict
  • Texts of the Rule in Latin, English, and Hungarian, with indices...
• The Decameron
  • A Web Page dedicated to The Decameron ...
• Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible
  • The ARTFUL Project's Searchable Vulgate...
• \Cassiodorus
  • Information on Cassiodorus and links to texts and images...
• Online Medieval and Classical Library
  • Medieval and classical texts in the public domain. Includes Chaucer, Henryson, Icelandic Sagas, Homer...
• The Infimae Aetatis Page
  • A Textual Database of Late Antique and Medieval Inscriptions
• Old Polish (Medieval) Literature site