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International Medieval Bibliography*
Indexes articles on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the period 450 to 1500 for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Citations classified by date, subject and location.
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ITER*
Electronic bibliography of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining
to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for articles;
bibliographies; catalogues; abstracts; and discographies are included.
The full runs of 600+ scholarly journal titles, published since 1842,
have been indexed.
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Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
New York: Gale, 1988-
Reference PN 681.5 C57
This ongoing multivolume set is an excellent starting point for
literary research: summaries, textual and critical histories, and
excerpted criticism. Consult the index of the most recent volume for
a complete list of topics. Topics are arranged alphabetically within
each volume.
Historical
Abstracts*
Search for articles about medieval history.
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MLA
International Bibliography*
Search for articles, book chapters and books about medieval literature.
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Annual bibliography of English language and literature (ABELL)*
Search for articles and books about medieval English literature.
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There are many other resiources
useful for medieval topics.
Check with the reference librarian.
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Gateways to
Medieval Resources on the World Wide Web
Online Reference Book (ORB) for
Medieval Studies
A cooperative effort by medieval scholars from a number of institutions.
Provides peer-reviewed articles, resources--such as a encyclopedia for
medieval studies--for students and instructors, and links to text resources
and other Web portals for medieval studies.
NetSERF
A well-organized index of medieval resources. Topics cover many aspects
of medieval life and culture. Provides a large glossary of medieval
terms. Sponsored by the Department of History at Catholic University
of America.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Provides teaching and research resources, online documents and links to full-text documents and supplementary materials. Sponsored by Fordham University.
Labyrinth:Resources for
Medieval Studies
Searchable--with a large directory of links and information organized
by topic. Provides links to many text resources--sorted by language.
Sponsored by Georgetown University.
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Online Medieval Texts & Images
Directories of Online Medieval Texts
ORB Library
Includes the Internet Medieval Sourcebook's links to full text sources,
ORB's own text library and more.
Anthology of Middle
English Literature (1350-1485)
Part of the Luminarium. Includes onsite introductions and links to biographies,
essays, articles and texts medieval English authors, from Chaucer to
Malory.
Sites Providing Online Medieval Texts
Online Medieval and
Classical Library (OMACL)
A wide range of medieval texts.
TEAMS
Middle English Texts
TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) offers several
Middle English texts, especially for the Robin Hood and Arthurian legends.(Univerisity of Rochester.)
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
Middle English texts. (University of Michigan.)
Middle English Collection at the Electronic Text Center, UVa
Middle English texts, including a good selection of Chaucer's works. (University of Virginia.) CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts
Irish literary, historical, and cultural texts. (University College Cork)
Corsair:
Images from Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
Ten centuries of Western illumination. (Pierpont Morgan Library.)
Sacred Texts: Legends
and Sagas
A good number of text arranged by national origin.
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Journals
Online Subscription Journals (Check the complete journals
page for other titles.)
Speculum*
(Available through JSTOR) is the oldest U.S.
journal devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages. The chronological boundaries
of the medieval period are defined as approximately A.D. 500-1500. The
primary geographic focus of the journal is on Western Europe, but Byzantine,
Hebrew, Arabic, and Slavic studies are also included.
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Journal
of Medieval and Early Modern Studies*
(Available through Project Muse)--topics include
art, literature, theater, music, philosophy, theology, and history,
and it embraces material objects as well as texts; women as well as
men; merchants, workers, and audiences as well as patrons; Jews and
Muslims as well as Christians.
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Chaucer
Review * (Available
through Project Muse) publishes studies of the texts, sources
and analogues, language, style, structure, and themes of Chaucer's poetry,
as well as articles on medieval literature, philosophy, theology, and
mythography relevant to the study of the poet.
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Directories of Free Online Journals in Medieval Studies
(Medieval)
Journals and Reviews (at the Labyrinth)
Links to online journals. No descriptions.
Book Reviews
The Medieval Review
(Formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review.) An online book review journal
for medieval studies.
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Specific Topics
Arthurian Studies
Arthurian Legend
and Literature: An Annotated Bibliography
New York: Garland, 1984
Reference PN 685 R45 1984
Volume 1 - The Middle Ages
Camelot
Project
Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, basic information, and links
from the University of Rochester.
Arthurian Resources
Essays, bibliographic guides, a character guide--authored by a member
of Exeter College, Oxford.
Charette Project
A scholarly, multi-media electronic archive of Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot). From Princeton.
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Beowulf
PR1580-
Find Articles & Criticism:
Beowulf Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography, 1979-1990.
Robert J. Hasenfratz
New York: Garland, 1993.
Reference PR 1585 .H23 1993
Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburh: A Bibliography
Donald K. Fry
Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1969
Covers the earliest scholarship through July 1967.
PR 15845 F892 1969
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
Reference PN 681.5 C57
"Beowulf." Vol 1, pgs 53-159.
"Beowulf." Vol 43, pgs 89-239.
Overview, excerpted criticism and bibliography.
Concordances:
A Concordance to Beowulf
J.B. Bessinger Jr., editor
Ithaca, New york: Cornell University Press, 1969.
Reference PR 1585 A2 B4 1969
Lists the use of particular Old English words in the poem.
Online Texts:
Old
English Text
Klaeber edition. (Fordham's Internet Medieval Sourcebook).
Modern
English Version
Translated by Francis Gummere (Internet Medieval Sourcebook). Another
Web edition of the Gummere translation is available from Bartleby.com.
Modern
Verse Version Translated by David Breeden.
Dante
PQ4332-
Digital Dante
From Columbia University--texts, images, criticism and more.
The
Decameron PQ4272
Decameron
Web
The place to start on the Web for studying the Decameron.
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Robin
Hood PR2125-
Find Articles & Criticism:
Literature Criticism From 1400 to 1800 Reference
PN 86 L56
"The Legend of Robin Hood." Vol
19, pgs 205-258.
Overview, excerpted criticism and bibliography.
Robin Hood : An Anthology of Scholarship and Criticism
Edited by Stephen Knight.
Cambridge, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. : D.S. Brewer, 1999
PR2129 .R62 1999
Robin Hood: Medieval and post-medieval
Edited by Helen Phillips.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005.
PR2129 .P45 2005
Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern
Edited by Lois Potter and Joshua Calhoun.
Newark: University of Deleware Press, 2008.
PR2129 .I63 2008
Texts:
Robin Hood : A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs
and Ballads, Now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw
Compiled by Joseph Ritson.
London : Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1997.
PR2125 .R6 1997
Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales
Edited by Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren
Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications, 1997.
PR2125 .R63 1997
Rymes of Robyn Hood : An Introduction to the English Outlaw
Rev. ed.
Edited by R.B. Dobson & J. Taylor.
Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton Pub., 1997.
PR2125 .D6 1997
On the Web:
Robin
Hood Project
From the University of Rochester--texts, images and bibliographies for
Robin Hood and related legends.
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