Welcome to our guide on Medieval Literature, where you will find tools to help you locate resources to further your research, whether it be on Medieval literature in general, or on a more specialized topic like the legends of King Arthur or Beowulf, or the work of Chaucer. Please note that the lists on these pages are not exhaustive lists on their topics. If you know of another good resource – or would like to see a page on another topic not currently included in this guide – let us know! Likewise, we would appreciate it if you would notify us of any dead links that you come across on these pages. Thank you!
General Resources
Selected Journals & Databases
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- AEstel∗
- Comitatus: a Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies∗
- La Corónica: a Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures and Cultures
- Eolas
- Essays in Medieval Studies∗
- Heroic Age: a Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe∗
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology
- Mediaeval Studies
- Medieval Forum∗
- Medieval Review∗
- Medievalia∗
- Medium Aevum
- Medieval Studies – Oxford Bibliographies
- Speculum
- Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History
- Studies in Philology
- Viator
- Arts and Humanities Commons
- Folger Digital Image Collection
(Medieval & Early Modern Artifacts & Manuscripts - Labyrinth @ Georgetown
- Luminarium Anthology of Middle English Literature
- Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
- Middle English Text Series @ Uni of Rochester
- Online Medieval Sources Bibliography
- Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
- Scriptorium: Medieval & Early Modern Manuscripts Online
- Turning the Pages (Virtual books from the British Library)
General Sites
- American Society for Irish Medieval Studies
- Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @ UCLA
- Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Consulting Medieval Manuscripts Online
- Decameron Web
- Early Book Society
- Ecole Initiative
- First Scottish Books
- Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi Sull’alto Medioevo
- Institute for Medieval Studies @ Uni of Leeds
- International John Gower Society
- International Piers Plowman Society
- International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook @ Fordham U
- Medieval Academy of America
- Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
- Medieval Institute @ Uni of Notre Dame
- Medievally Speaking
- Medieval Manuscripts Blog (British Library)
- Middle English Compendium
- Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
- Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
- Romaunt of the Rose
- Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
Medieval History
Arthurian Legends
General Sites
- Arthuriana/Camelot Project Bibliographies & Reprints
- Arthuriana Pedagogy
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
- Luminarium’s Sir Thomas Malory page
Societies
- International Arthurian Society
- International Marie de France Society
- Oxford Arthurian Society (disbanded in 2001)
Selected Journals & Databases:
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Expert & Academic Sites
- Arthuriana
- Arthurnet
- The Camelot Project @ Uni of Rochester
- Centre for Arthurian Studies, Bangor University
- Cotton Nero A.x. Project
- Eugène Vinaver’s Magnificent Malory: Exhibition Guide
- Lancelot-Graal Project
- Le Morte Darthur, ed. by H. Oskar Sommer
- Malory Project
- Malory’s Morte d’Arthur: Exhibition Guide
- Princeton Charrette Project
Beowulf
General Sites
Selected Journals & Databases
Expert & Academic Sites
Chaucer
General Sites
- Chaucer Bibliography Online Database (searchable annotated bibliography of Chaucer studies)
- Chaucer MetaPage Audio Files (chapters of Chaucer read aloud)
- Luminarium’s Geoffrey Chaucer page (contains biography and links to full text)
- Mapping Chaucer
- Mercers’ Company Archives (for Caxton research)
OERs and Online Texts
- Librarius – The Canterbury Tales (contains Middle English and Modern English transcription side-by-side)
- The Multitext Edition of The Canterbury Tales (Middle English transcriptions and line-by-line comparisons between 8 surviving manuscripts)
- The Open Access Companion to The Canterbury Tales (essays divided by chapter)
- Project Gutenberg – Books by Chaucer (public domain Modern English translations)
- Representative Poetry Online – Chaucer (Middle English transcription of Hengwrt Manuscript)
Selected Journals & Databases
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Academic & Expert Sites
- CantApp – General Prologue of Canterbury Tales (original Hengwrt manuscript with audio)
- Chaucer MetaPage (links to online Chaucer-related sites and resources)
- Harvard Chaucer Page
- Visualizing Chaucer (illustrations, woodcuts and ephemera)