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Dictionaries
Manuals
Language Aids
Bibliographies
Facsimiles
ONLINE
Luminarium: Chaucer
Chaucer Metapage
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
The New Chaucer Society
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 [Young Reference]

The Cambridge History of the English Language. Vol. II: 1066-1476, ed. Norman Blake (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992).
PE1072 .C36 1992 [4th floor stacks]

Bibliographies

Studies in the Age of Chaucer (SAC). Norman, Okla.: New Chaucer Society, University of Oklahoma, c1979- ).
PR1901 .S88 [3rd floor Periodicals]

The Essential Chaucer. A friendly interface to a selective, annotated bibliography of Chaucer studies by Mark Allen and John H. Fisher, available through the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Facsimiles

The Hengwrt Manuscript, (Hg), National Library of Wales Peniarth 392D, Aberystwyth, Wales.

The Ellesmere Manuscript, (El), formerly Lord Ellesmere's, now Henry E. Huntington Library MS. El.26C.9, San Marino, California.

The Lansdowne Manuscript, (La), British Library MS. Lansdowne 851, London.

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ONLINE RESOURCES

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Luminarium: Chaucer
Online texts, resources, essays and articles.

Chaucer Metapage
Gateway that organizes and provides navigation aides for Chaucer resources on the WWW.

The Essential Chaucer. A friendly interface to a selective, annotated bibliography of Chaucer studies by Mark Allen and John H. Fisher, available through the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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

The New Chaucer Society
A forum for teachers and scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his age, the Society organizes biennial international congresses of Chaucerians and publishes the annual Studies in the Age of Chaucer.

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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