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Primary Sources
- Dictionary of Old English: A to I This link opens in a new windowVocabulary of the first six centuries (600 - 1150 A.D.) of the English language.
- Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus This link opens in a new windowA complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts.
- English Poetry, 600-1900 This link opens in a new window
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Full-text English and British poems from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of 19th century. - English Verse Drama This link opens in a new window
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Full-text of works by named and anonymous authors from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late 13th century, through the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, to British poets of the 19th century. - Medieval Sources Online This link opens in a new windowA collection of primary source material containing over three thousand pages of medieval texts.
Indexes
- Chaucer Bibliography OnlineIncludes materials from the Annotated Chaucer Bibliography published annually in Studies in the Age of Chaucer and is sponsored by the NCS and the library of the University of Texas at San Antonio.
- English Short Title Catalog (ESTC)Indexes over 480,000 that were published between 1473 and 1800 primarily in Britain and North America. Works are predominantly in English and are from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries.
Dictionaries & Thesauri
- An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph BosworthCall Number: PE279 .B5 pt.1-4 Oversize
Location: Special Collections - A Comprehensive Old English DictionaryCall Number: PE279 .B48 1982
- A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary.Call Number: PE279 .H35 2004
- Dictionary of Old English: A to I This link opens in a new windowVocabulary of the first six centuries (600 - 1150 A.D.) of the English language.
- English-Old English, Old English-English DictionaryCall Number: PE279 .J4
- Middle English DictionaryCall Number: PE679 .M54
Websites
- British History OnlineBritish History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust.
- Brut ChronicleProvides online access to the "Brut Chronicle," an English prose chronicle that traced English popular history in the Middle Ages. The contents are fully searchable; however, users may also browse the digitized page images of the manuscript.
- Corpus of Middle English Prose and VerseComprises 54 Middle English prose and verse texts from the University of Michigan faculty. The collection may be either browsed or searched using simple, proximity, boolean, and citation searches.
- Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval StudiesServes as a guide to online Medieval resources, including primary texts, secondary texts, and bibliographies.
- Old English NewsletterThe online version of the Old English Newsletter, including events, reports, essays, and publications. Includes a searchable bibliographic database the contains the OEN Bibliography from 1973 to 2002. The database is free to use but requires registration.