Middle English Literature

• Anthology of Middle English Literature.  Open access to many authors of the Middle English period, including Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain-poet, Margery Kemp, Julian of Norwich, and others, plus a searchable bibliography and essays, which may be downloaded.   http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/

• Database of Middle English Romances – provides key information, including (where known) date and place of composition, verse form, authorship and sources, extant manuscripts and early modern prints, for each romance, as well as a full list of modern editions and plot summaries. There are direct links to all of the modern editions that are available online. The database is searchable by manuscript, by a set of fifty ‘key words’ (representing common motifs and topics found in more than one romance), by verse form, and by plot summary. Middle English Romance 

• Digital Index of Middle English Verse (DIMEV) – open access digital edition of the Index of Middle English Verse http://www.dimev.net/

• Documents of Early England Data Set (DEEDS Project) http://www.utoronto.ca/deeds/

• Early English Books Online (EEBO) – available with an LSU PAWS account

• John Gower 
  • Complete Works of John Gower — digitized facsimile of a translation. Free, open access through HathiTrust. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000394093
  • Confessio amantis of John Gower — full view of digitized manuscript of three volumes. Available to the public without cost through HathiTrust by various institutions. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006197899
  • Crowdsourcing translation of amantis — a British Academy funded online project to crowd source the translation of Confessio amantis. http://confessioamantis.org/
  • The English Works of John Gower — full digitized manuscript available through Internet Archive without cost. https://archive.org/details/englishworksjoh03macagoog
  • The Geoffrey Chaucer Page — general information and selections of text available to all online without cost. http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/gower/
  • Gower Bibliography — browsable online bibliography of Gower’s texts. http://gowerbib.lib.utsa.edu/
  • The Gower Project.com — links to online texts, PDFs of texts, related websites, and images; all free, open access. http://www.gowerproject.com/
  • International John Gower Society — offers bibliography, catalog of Gower manuscripts, audio files, and links online for free. http://www.wcu.edu/johngower/index.html
  • John Gower: Life, Work, and Times — faculty page with timeline, bibliography, and links to texts online provided free of charge. http://home.gwu.edu/~jhsy/gower.html
  • Luminarium — online portal to the works of John Gower that are available on the web for free. http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/gowerbib.htm

• William Langland
  • Biography, online texts of Piers Plowman, resources accessible to all for free. http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/langland.htm
    • The Electronic Archive brings together the three versions of the text in digitized formats. Free to the public compliments of the University of Virginia.  http://piers.iath.virginia.edu/
    • Transcription with numbered lines available without cost and with open access on the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. Hyperlinked table of contents. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/PPlLan
    • Translation available without cost on Harvard’s Geoffrey Chaucer Page.  http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/langland/pp-pro.htmlPiers Plowman

• The Middle English Compendium– 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 http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/m/mec

• The Middle English Text Collection, University of Virginia (VIRGO)– limited access http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog?f[digital_collection_facet][]=UVa+Text+Collection&facet.limit=500&id=digital_collection_facet&sort=date_received_facet+desc&width=490

Pearl-Poet (Gawain-Poet)

• Cotton Nero A.x. — only known manuscript containing the poems Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — transcription and digitized manuscript provided freely to the public by the University of Calgary in partnership with British Library. Work-in-progress.  http://gawain.ucalgary.ca/
• Cleanness — open access to transcription provided without cost by Representative Poetry Online.  http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/cleanness
• Patience — open access to transcription provided without cost by Representative Poetry Online.  http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/patience
  • Transcription provided free to the public by Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. Hyperlinked table of contents.  http://name.umdl.umich.edu/Gawain
  • 1898 Translation by Jessie Weston accessible to the public for free through University of Rochester’s The Camelot Project.  http://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text/weston-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight
  • Introduction, online texts, bibliography and links to study resources provided without cost.  http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/gawain.htmSir Gawain and the Green Knight

 

• Records of Early English Drama (REED) http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/

• Richard Rolle
  • Commentary on the Psalms — digitized manuscript accessible through Parker Library for free. https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/
  • Commentaries on the Psalms, the Canticles and the Nine Lessons of the Office of the Dead — digitized manuscript available through Parker Library for free. https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/
  • English Prose Works of Richard Rolle — selected transcriptions of texts available online for free through Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse at University of Michigan. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/rollewks
  • The English Writings — extensive though incomplete preview available for free through Google Books. http://books.google.com/books?id=zw1HUr5qS4UC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=Richard+Rolle&source=bl&ots=pf0ieVuve6&sig=Ozjx3LYw_D3Hy2Jx6JgWClmoECI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dLhBU8bZPO6nsAT14YGADw&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q&f=false
  • The Fire of Love, etc. — digitized manuscript available for free through Yale’s Beinecke Digital Collections. http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3441104
  • The Incendium Amoris of Richard Rolle of Hampole — manuscript available for free through:
    • Internet Archive, digitized manuscript: https://archive.org/details/incendiumamoriso00rolluoft
    • Lollard Society, PDF: http://lollardsociety.org/pdfs/Rolle_IncendiumAmoris.pdf
  • Mending of Life — full, digitized manuscript available for free through the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/RichardRolleOfHampolesMendingOfLifeFromTheFifteenthCentury
  • Oleum Effusum — digitized manuscript available for free through Yale’s Beinecke Digital Collections. http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3592305
  • Religious Movements in the Fourteenth Century — an online exert concerning Rolle from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume II. Searchable, open access text from Bartleby.com. http://www.bartleby.com/212/0201.html