Greetings everyone. This week's Links list is about Medieval Literature, thanks to a suggestion form one of my faithful readers :). Here you will find information on not only works of fiction, but also philosophical treatises, song lyrics, poetry and prose, and from a variety of cultures from Icelandic to Serbian to Portuguese, Italian and Spanish, and of course the prolific English and French. All the sites I've chosen are in English or provide English Translations. Of particular note to scribes, there is a link which shows Serbian medieval manuscript photos in an article on Serbian literature. This week's list is just the tip of the iceberg. I encourage those interested to search any meta-search engine with the words "medieval literature," and see how many hits they'll get. In 17 seconds on google I found 811,000. It's truly amazing the wealth of information we can find on the 'net, though you have to be very careful about reliability. Even more amazing is the fact that most if not all of these sites link to yet more sites on medieval literature. I have tried to include those deemed most reliable by scholars, but some other interesting stuff has also crept in to the list. Enjoy this list in the spirit it's created and have a wonderful Summer! Cheers Aoife liontamr@ptd.net Dame Aoife Fin of Ynos Mon Riverouge Aethelemarc Anthology of Middle English Literature http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/ This is a delightful site, well presented and easily accessible. If you click on the Medieval Lyrics link, for instance, you get a simple page which plays a Medieval tune with recognizable instruments(no medieval muzac here), a delightful historical illustration of musicians, and a simple list of links which includes texts, resources, articles, and a bookstore which sells books on the subject. The Sir Thomas Mallory Link also offers movies on Arthurian Times. (Site Excerpt) Menu: Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Sir Gowain, Wiliam Langland, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Sir Thomas Malory, Everyman, Medieval Plays, Medieval Lyrics, essays and Articles, Additional Sources. The Online Medieval and Classical Library (Berkeley Digital Library SUNsite) http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/ (Site Excerpt) The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization. Douglas B. Killings is responsible for the project.....You may search all of the texts in this collection (note: there is also a browse feature which provides a comprehensive list of links, but you must scroll farther down the page to see it. Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) http://orb.rhodes.edu/ (Site Excerpt) Welcome to ORB! ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval studies. NOTE: ORB'S OCLC number is 35987956. The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies Sponsored by Georgetown University http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/ (Site excerpt) The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world. Each user will be able to find an Ariadne's thread through the maze of information on the Web. This project not only provides an organizational structure for electronic resources in medieval studies, but also serves as a model for similar, collaborative projects in other fields of study. The Labyrinth project is open-ended and is designed to grow and change with new developments in technology and in medieval studies. Internet Medieval Sourcebook Paul Halsall, ORB sources editor http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html (Site Excerpt) The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is organized as three main index pages, with a number of supplementary documents. Each individual section is still large - an organizational goal here is to avoid incessant "clicking" to get between pages and to information. Selected Sources: This is an index of selected and excerpted texts for teaching purposes. Since it had grown too large for many users to manage, as of October 10 1998, it has been extensively reorganized. For teachers who wish to refer students to the Sourcebook, this page is the best starting point. Full Text Sources: Full texts of medieval sources arranged according to type. Saints' Lives: Devoted to Ancient, Medieval and Byzantine hagiographical sources. Netserf http://www.netserf.org/ Netserf is a search engine of Medieval historical information. You can find information by either clicking on a link or entering a search term. The WWW Virtual Library History Index Medieval Europe http://www.msu.edu/~georgem1/history/medieval.htm This site contains so much information, that it is impossible to provide a list here. Try it. You'll see :) Project Gutenberg e-texts archive http://promo.net/pg/ (Site Excerpt) Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts)...Project Gutenberg is the brainchild of Michael Hart, who in 1971 decided that it would be a really good idea if lots of famous and important texts were freely available to everyone in the world. Since then, he has been joined by hundreds of volunteers who share his vision. Now, more than thirty years later, Project Gutenberg has the following figures (as of November 8th 2002): ....1975 New eBooks produced in 2002 (they were 1240 in 2001) for a total of 6267 Total Project Gutenberg eBooks. Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ (Site Excerpt) The Center combines an on-line archive of tens of thousands of SGML and XML-encoded electronic texts and images with a library service that offers hardware and software suitable for the creation and analysis of text. French Medieval Drama Database http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/fr/french.html (Site Excerpt, Menu) The Charette Project; Édition synoptique des Manuscrits de la "Charrette," Marie de France: Bisclavret, Manuscripts of Marie de France, French Medieval Drama Database Project , ARTFL Project (A project of the University of Chicago and CNRS (France) for French e-texts, 15th-20th century), Bibliography of the Provencal Database | Bibles in Latin, French, and German Literature of the French Middle Ages by Tennessee Bob Peckham http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/middle.ages.html (Site Excerpt) Local Websites with French Medieval Content, General, Category and Multi-Work Literature Sites, Works by Author or Title Literary Resources -- Medieval http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/medieval.html This is simply a list of links to other sites, but is a good jumping-off point for research. (Site Excerpt) This page is part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers -- Newark. WWW Medieval Resources http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/medieval/medieval.ebbs.html (Site Excerpt) Discussion Lists & Information Useful, basic information about the use and function of academic discussion lists, how to subscribe to them, what and where they are... Links to Texts from and about the Medieval Period Medieval History, Archeology, & Architecture Links to Databases Labyrinth, Chaucer Bibliography, ANSAXDAT, & others... Links to other Home Pages Links to Archives of MSS Facsimiles, Art, etc. Medieval Sciences Libraries Links to Miscellaneous Materials British Library Portico, WebLouvre, Gregorian Chant, etc.... The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry ftp://ftp.std.com/obi/Anglo-Saxon/aspr/contents.html FTP Anglo-Saxon Literature download site ftp://ftp.std.com/WWW/obi/Anglo-Saxon/ Geoffrey Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: A Hypertext Edition http://www.ucalgary.ca/ucpress/online/pubs/duchess/Websample/titlepge.htm (Site Excerpt) The "Reading Edition" of the Book of the Duchess presents a text of the poem (identical as far as possible with the "Critical Edition" text) on the left side of the screen, together with glossary and explanatory notes on the right hand side of the screen. Most words in the text of the poem are clickable links. Clicking on a word in the poem will bring the glossary definition for that word into the top frame on the right hand side. The explanatory notes are also brought into the bottom right hand frame by clicking, in their case on an asterisk to the left of the line to which the note refers. Sound files and manuscript transcriptions can also be accessed from the reading edition. Robin Hood: The Early Poems Selected Studies by Thomas H. Ohlgren http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ohlgren/ (Site Excerpt: Menu) Edwardus Redivivus in A Gest of Robyn Hode... The 'Marchaunt' of Sherwood: Mercantile Ideology in A Gest of Robyn Hode... Richard Call, the Pastons, and the Manuscript Context of Robin Hood and the Potter... The Geste of Robin Hood (In Modern English)... FTP Site to download Canterbury Tales ftp://ftp.std.com/WWW/obi/Geoffrey.Chaucer/ Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word: Money, Images, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry R. A. Shoaf http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rashoaf/currency/dccw.html This site contains nuggets of mined material regarding the subject, cataloged for reasonably easy access. The Gregorian Chant Home Page http://silvertone.princeton.edu/chant_html/ (Site Excerpt: Menu) Links to other chant research sites on the Web...Medieval Music Theory Sites...Resources for Chant Performance...Other Chant Web Sites...Web Sites Helpful for Chant Researchers...Historical and Humanistic Sciences... Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629) http://www.nd.edu/~italnet/Dante/ (Site Excerpt) THIS EXHIBITION presents Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy from the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame, together with selected treasures from The Newberry Library. The Zahm collection ranks among the top Dante collections in North America. Purchased for the most part by Zahm in 1902 from the Italian Dantophile Giulio Acquaticci, the 15th- and 16th- century imprints presented here form the heart of Zahm's collection, which totals nearly 3,000 volumes, including rare editions and critical studies from the Renaissance to the present. The nine incunable editions and nearly complete series of 16th-century imprints featured in this exhibit constitute essential primary sources for both the history of Dante's reception during the Renaissance and the early history of the printed book. Luminarium http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm This site is a graphic-heavy anthology of Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century Literature. MEDIEVAL DRAMA LINKS A personal selection made by Sydney Higgins http://collectorspost.com/Catalogue/medramalinks.htm (Site Excerpt) I have wasted countless hours chasing after alleged medieval drama links on the World Wide Web that turned out to be either non-existent or of little value. The following selection gives the ones that I have found to be most useful. All the links are divided into categories but, because there are about 200 links, they are presented on eight pages. You may go either to the page or the category of your choice by clicking on the selected heading below. The Middle English Collection at the Electronic Text Center, UVa http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/mideng.browse.html A large collection of medieval texts. Some are freely available, some available only to Virginians. The Middle English Compendium http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/m/mec/ (Site Excerpt) The Middle English Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources. William of Ockham: Dialogus LATIN TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION edited by John Kilcullen, George Knysh, Volker Leppin, John Scott and Jan Ballweg under the auspices of the Medieval Texts Editorial Committee of the British Academy http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/dialogus/ockdial.html (Site Excerpt) William of Ockham was a medieval English philosopher and theologian who lived about a generation before Chaucer (he was born about 1285, perhaps as late as 1288, and died in 1347 or 1348). In his earlier years he wrote many influential works in logic, philosophy and philosophical theology. For a study of these works see Marilyn McCord Adams, William Ockham (Notre Dame, 1987), or, for a brief account, "William of Ockham" in The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, ed. P. Edwards, vol. 8, pp. 306-17....The purpose of the present project is to restore the text of the Dialogue to the state in which it left the author's hands -- or, since this is not really possible, to bring it as close as we can to that state. To do this we will compare the text of the early printed editions (1476, 1494, 1614) with the surviving 14th and 15th century manuscripts (there are more than thirty). We intend also to produce a translation of the whole work to make it accessible to readers who do not read Latin. Ockham's Dialogue deserves a place beside Marsilius's Defensor Pacis, Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Hobbes's Leviathan and Locke's Two Treatises, among the classics of political thought. DATABASE OF NORDIC NEO-LATIN LITERATURE http://www.uib.no/neolatin/ (Site Excerpt) Before you start searching in the database, you may need a description of its contents or some help for its use. Also available are lists of addresses of Neo-Latin scholars, a bibliography, a map of Scandinavia, a note on the historical background, some lists of Nordic rulers, abbreviations used in the database, and other relevant WWW-servers. (Note, all these things are inlcuded, available in hotlinks through the various words above). Saganet: Icelandic medieval literature http://saga.library.cornell.edu/ (Site Excerpt) The material will consist of the entire range of Icelandic family sagas. It will also include a very large portion of Germanic/Nordic mythology (the Eddas), the history of Norwegian kings, contemporary sagas and tales from the European age of chivalry. A great number of manuscripts contain Icelandic ballads, poetry or epigrams. These Collections are kept in The National and University Library of Iceland, The Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland and in the Fiske Icelandic Collection at Cornell University. All manuscripts, on vellum and paper, and printed editions and translations of the Sagas as well as relevant critical studies published before 1900 will be included and available through the Internet. Serbian Medieval Literature BY RADMILA MARINKOVIC http://www.suc.org/culture/history/Hist_Serb_Culture/chd/Medieval_literature.html?Suc_Session=1c81b34c0d0c8a7d3c28f04173259d68 (beware hotlinks with wrapped URLS. Copy-paste to your browser window to be sure you get the entire address). An article on Serbian Medieval Literature with some links to actual facsimiles of that literature, in small bits. Voice of the Shuttle: Anglo-Saxon & Medieval Literature http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2740 (Site Excerpt) . General Resources in Anglo-Saxon & Medieval Lit. . Authors, Works, Projects . Criticism . Anglo-Saxon & Medieval Courses . Reference Works . Medieval Studies Programs, Centers & Associations . Journals (Anglo-Saxon & Medieval Literature) . Listservs & Newsgroups (Anglo-Saxon & Medieval Literature) . Conferences (Anglo-Saxon & Medieval Studies) . Fonts For Display Of Old English Medieval Literature in Portugal http://www.geocities.com/correia72/medieval.htm (Site Excerpt) Courtly troubadour poetry in Portugal began in the 13th century with the reign of Alfonso III and reached its height during the reign of his son Dom Diniz, an excellent troubadour himself. A few authors stand out in the 13th century; the priests Airas Nunes and Joan Airas de Santiago, João Garcia de Guilhade, and the jogral (professional musician) Martin Codax. Old French On The Web http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8716/ (Site Excerpt) This page is designed to provide you with information about the Old French language and its literature. The "Old French" era covers the period from the year 842 (date of the "Serments de Strasbourg", the earliest known document written in the emerging vernacular) until about the year 1400 (the period when the 'two-case' system, which distinguished Old French from its modern, uninflected forms, were disappearing from the written language). "Old French" normally refers to the variety that developed in the North of France--Langue d'Oïl--which existed in numerous dialects and of which one--Francien--became the ancestor of modern standard French. However, a related Southern French language (which some would call a 'dialect')--Langue d'Oc--which exists today in a number of varieties collectively known as Occitan, must be considered, too; its linguistic, historical, literary and cultural importance is inestimable. At Oto's Medieval European Literature http://www.gksdesign.com/atotos/medievalliterature.htm Site includes links to literature form: Spain, England, Italy and France. Classical & Medieval Literature http://invictus.quinnipiac.edu/LIS901/Literature/classmedlit.html Articles on Medieval Literature (1000-1450) http://www.ehrc.ox.ac.uk/legenda/medieval.html