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Dictionaries
Manuals
Language Aids
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Luminarium: SGGK
Labyrinth Middle English Bookcase
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Middle English Language
Middle English Compendium

UK LIBRARIES

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Dictionaries

Young Reference has the following Middle English dictionaries:

Robert E. Lewis, etc. Middle English Dictionary (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1952-).
PE679 .M54 (Also available online under UK's
Electronic Resources)

Francis Henry Stratmann. A Middle-English dictionary, containing words used by English writers from the twelfth to the fifteenth century (Oxford: Clarendon, 1891).
PE 675 .S7

Manuals

Also available in Young Reference:

A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500, by members of the Middle English Group of the Modern Language Association of America. (New Haven, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967-).
PR255 .M3

Language aids

The language of Middle English literature, David Burnley and Matsuji Tajima (Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 1994).
Z2012 .B925 1994

The Cambridge History of the English Language. Vol. II: 1066-1476, ed. Norman Blake (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992).
PE1072 .C36 1992

Bibliographies

Studies in the Age of Chaucer (SAC). Norman, Okla.: New Chaucer Society, University of Oklahoma, c1979- ).
PR1901 .S88 (moving from King to Young - please ask at desk)

Malcolm Andrew, The Gawain-poet: an annotated bibliography, 1839-1977. Garland reference library in the humanities, v. 129. New York: Garland Pub., 1979.
Z2014.P7 A55 (Young - 5th floor)

Facsimiles

Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain, reproduced in facsimile from the unique ms. Cotton Nero A.x in the British museum, with introduction by Sir I. Gollancz ..., Early English text society. no. 162. 1923 (for 1922).
PR1119 .A2 no.162 1923

The Percy Folio Manuscript. There is a facsimile of one page of this famous 17th-century collection of romances in Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances, 3 vols., eds. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall (London: N. Trübner & Co., 1867).
PR1181 .P45

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ONLINE RESOURCES

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Luminarium: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Online texts, resources, essays and articles.

Labyrinth Middle English Bookcase
Gateway to multiple resources on Middle English language and literature.

ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
An encyclopedic resource, written and maintained by medieval scholars.

Pronunciation, Grammar, and Vocabulary
An introduction to Chaucer's English with audio files.

A Glossarial DataBase of Middle English
Includes names, but currently limited to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Middle English Compendium:
(Comprehensive definitions, texts, complex search facilities, and bibliography)

  • Middle English Dictionary
  • Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
  • Middle English HyperBibliography
    (Note: For remote "proxy" access use your last name as the ID and your 13-digit library barcode number as the password. For additional instructions see Off-Campus Access Instructions).

    The Medieval Review
    Reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies.

    Citing Electronic Sources: MLA Style

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