Literature of the Medieval Period; Medieval Texts, Famous Medieval Poets and Authors

A Comprehensive List of Websites

A C D Drama English French G German I L M Manuscripts N P T

Arthurian Romance

Arthurian Studies. Arthurian websites.

Arthurian Resources
A survey of recent academic research into the Arthurian legend, including history and bibliographies, by Thomas Gree, a post-graduate researcher at the University of Oxford.

Arthuriana
The Arthurian studies journal and the quarterly of the International Arthurian Society.

Brittania King Arthur Site. The History, the Legend, the King.
A collection of historical materials, primary and secondary texts and images.

Arthurian Romance, Wikipedia entry.

King Arthur and the Holy Grail
A website offering information, maps, images, articles and a large set of links.

Merlin Biography
A descriptive biography of the Merlin character.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
An introduction and online texts of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The site also has essays and articles, as well as links to study resources and a list of books helpful for further study.

Authors and titles index, with full online texts.
Fordham College

Averroës. Ibn Rushd
On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy. Medieval Sourcebook

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Beowolf

Studying Beeowulf
The Electronic Beowulf. Electronic Beowulf is designed to meet the needs of general readers, who require a full, line by line, translation; of students, who want to understand the grammar and the meter and still have time in a semester to study and appreciate other important aspects of the poem; and of scholars, who want immediate access to a critical apparatus identifying the nearly 2000 eighteenth-century restorations, editorial emendations, and manuscript-based conjectural restorations.

Byzantine literature

Byzantine literature, Wikipedia entry.

Byzantine texts, in Greek.

Byzantine literary forms, an article.

Cambridge History of Literature
From the Beginnings to the cycles of Romance. Old English poetry, The Arthurian Legends, Metrical Romances.

Chaucer

Chaucer, Geoffrey. Geoffrey Chaucer
Luminarium

Geoffrey Chaucer, a dedicated Website

Geoffrey Chaucer
An Annotated Guide to Online Resources

The Canterbury Tales Project :
publishing transcripts and images.

Canterbury Tales
Scans of William Caxton's two editions from the British Library.

The Canterbury Tales, in original Old English.

Canterbury Tales. Plain text version.

The Canterbury Tales, Wikipedia entry.

Courtly love in Medieval literature. Wikipedia

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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri. Digital Dante Project

Dante Alighieri, Wikipedia entry.

Dante Alighieri on the Web

Drama, Medieval Drama, Passion plays

Articles on Medieval theatre

The Official Chester Mystery Plays Website

French Medieval Drama Database Project
Bibliographies and manuscripts.

Medieval and Renaissance Drama Texts

Mystery plays, Wikipedia entry.

Passion play, Wikipedia entry.

The York Mystery plays

English Medieval literature

Medieval authors. A list from NetSerf

Arthurian Romance, Wikipedia entry.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer, Geoffrey. Geoffrey Chaucer Website

Geoffrey Chaucer
An Annotated Guide to Online Resources

The Canterbury Tales Project :
publishing transcripts and images.

Gower, John

Gower, John. John Gower, Wikipedia entry.

Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins (English)
Project Gutenberg

Complete works at Archive.org

The Gower Projecet

John Gower
Life, works, essays.

Langland, William

Langland, William. William Langland. Wikipedia entry

International Piers Plowman Society

Malory, Sir Thomas

Sir Thomas Malory. Le Morte dArthur. The Death of Arthur

French Medieval literature

The Song of Roland, Wikipedia entry.

The Song of Roland

Froissart. The Chronicles of Froissart.
Text translated from the original French by John Bourchier, Lord Berners.

Ballads Lyrics and Poems of Old France
At Project Gutenberg

Laboratoire de L'Ancien Français
Old French texts.

L'Encyclopédie médiévale.
A good collection of OF texts.

Bibliotheca Augustana.
A collection of online OF texts.

La Citadelle
An online magazine of Medieval life and culture,

Chanson de Geste
Wikipedia entry.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook - Selected Sources: France

Lectures on Medieval Literature
Online lectures at The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies.

Medieval French Literature, Wikipedia entry.

The Troubadour, Wikipedia entry.

Chrétien de Troyes

Lancelot

The Charrette Project 2.Chrétien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette
Baylor University

Works by Chrétien de Troyes
Project Gutenberg

An English translation of parts of the Chrétien de Troyes story

Dictionnaire Électronique de Chrétien de Troyes
ATILF/CNRS-Nancy Université and LFA/Université d'Ottawa

François Villon

Biography, Bibliography, Analysis, Plot overview
(in French)

Works by François Villon
Project Gutenberg

Germanic mythology, German medieval authors and poets

Germanic Myths, Legends and Sagas.

Grimm's Teutonic Mythology
A collection of Germanic Mythology compiled by the Grimm Brothers.

The Journal of Germanic Mythology and Folklore
A journal concerning all aspects of A web-published academic journalGermanic mythology and folklore, from ancient to modern.

The Lay of Hildebrandslied
Wikisource

Hildebrandslied. Text
Althochdeutsches Lesebuch

Hildebrandslied. Manuscript and transcription.
Bibliotheca Augustana

Des Minnesangs Frühling
University of Virginia, Electronic Text Center

Nibelungenlied, Wikipedia entry.

Online manuscript facsimiles of The Nibelungenlied.

The Nibelungenlied
Translated into Rhymed English verse in the metre of the original.

German texts of manuscripts A, B and C.

Authors, poets

Gottfried von Strassburg
Wikipedia entry.

Tristan
A Musical Translation
by Lee Stavenhagen

Wolfram von Eschenbach
Wikipedia entry.

Wolfram von Eschenbach. Works
(Middle High German)

List of Parzival manuscripts.

Gothic architecture, Gothic churches.

Grimm's Teutonic Mythology
A collection of Germanic Mythology compiled by the Grimm Brothers.

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Icelandic Medieval Literature
Cornell University

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Early Fathers, Middle English, Medieval Thought, Historigraphy.

Italian Medieval literature

Italian literature, Wikipedia entry.

I classici italiani in HTML Nuovo Rinascimento
Many Full texts, all in Italian. Bibliografia 'Aperta' dei Classici Italiani in Rete. A cura di Danilo Romei.

Italian literature

Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron
Full text of English translation.

The Decameron
The Decamoran Web Project, a dedicated Decameron website. In Italian and English.

Dante

Dante Alighieri. Digital Dante Project

Dante Alighieri, Wikipedia entry.

Dante Alighieri on the Web

Petrarch

Petrarch: Fifty-three poems from the Canzoniere.

The Petrarchian Grotto, Petrarch etexts.

Julian of Norwich
The Luminarium Julian of Norwich page. Here you will find a biography and online texts of her Revelations. The site also has essays and articles, as well as links to study resources and a list of books helpful for further study.

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Labyrinth
Latin texts, manuscripts, national literatures, etc.

Lancelot, or, The Knight of the Cart, by Chretien DeTroyes.

Legends. Medieval legends, folklore, ballads and personages.
A personal journey through the worlds of Robin Hood, King Arthur, D'Artagnan and other swashbuckling characters of balladry, fiction, and film, from the shores of Avalon to the dungeons of Zenda.

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Malory, Sir Thomas. Sir Thomas Malory
An introduction, with texts of Le Morte dArthur (The Death of Arthur).

Manuscripts

Medieval texts, internet sites

Medieval and Classical Library, Berkeley Digital Library.

Medieval Literature and Culture Links

Medieval Multimedia
A site promoting and disseminating projects relating to the digitization of medieval texts and manuscripts. It contains information about current projects, online courses available, and publications.

Medieval Studies Online
A site from Poland. Regional resources, listed alphabetically. Meliton

Nibelung

Nibelungenlied
Etext from Berkeley University.

Nibelung
Wikipedia entry.

The Ring of the Nibelung, an illustrated synopsis.

Old English Manuscripts Archive

Online Medieval and Classical Library, Berkeley Digital Library.
Online texts, organised by Title, Author, Genre and Language.

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Petrarch

Petrarch: Fifty-three poems from the Canzoniere.

The Petrarchian Grotto, Petrarch etexts.

Romance, romantic love, the romance epic in Medieval literature.
Wikipedia

The Song of Roland

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Text archives

Old English Manuscripts Archive

Online Medieval and Classical Library, Berkeley Digital Library.
Online texts, organised by Title, Author, Genre and Language.

Medieval, Byzantine Full Text Sources
Internet Medieval Sourcebook from Fordham University

Full Text Sources for Medieval History

Church Councils

Writings of the Church Fathers

Late Antiquity

Byzantium

Islam

Historiography

Modern Historiography

Literary Texts

Latin
French
Italian
Spanish/Portuguese
Celtic
German
Nordic
English

Medieval Thought

Medieval Spiritual Writing

Governmental, Administrative and Legal Documents

Reformation Texts

The Early Church Fathers Series - Ante-Nicene, Nicene, and Post Nicene

Wikipedia entry on Medieval literature
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Middle Eastern/Persian Literature

See also: Arabic, Islamic Literature

Ancient, Medieval, Byzantine full text sources (Fordham University).

Bodlean Library, Oxford University.
Department of Oriental Collections

Classical texts (from M.I.T). Oriental,
Arabaic classical texts.

Middle Eastern / Eastern Meditarranean / Levant literature.
Reviews, writers, books from Lebanon, Egypt, Israel (from Almashriq).

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