Internet Sites for Anglo-Saxon Studies
The following list is necessarily incomplete; we apologize for any omissions and welcome any suggestions for inclusion. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the list, but inevitably not all links will be current. Please send any suggestions for inclusion, or notices or errors or broken links, to editor@oenewsletter.org.
Updated May 13, 2010
- Metasites - collections of links and gateways
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Bibliographies and Databases
- Royal Historical Society Bibliography
- Old English Newsletter Bibliography Database
- “Select Bibliography of Anglo-Saxon studies” (Carole Biggam)
- “The Old English Martyrology: an annotated bibliography” (Christine Rauer)
- Supplementary Bibliography for the Lacnunga and A-S Medicine and Magic (Edward Pettit)
- Regesta Imperia (database for European History from Antiquity to the Renaissance)
- “WEMSK: What Every Medievalist Should Know” (James Marchand)
- TOCS-IN Tables of Contents of Journals for Classicists
- Base d’Information Bibliographique in Patristique
- Course Bibliographies (Charles D. Wright, U of Illinois)
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Online Publications
- The Medieval Review, online archive of reviews
- Reviews in History, online reviews journal of the Institute of Historical Research
- Blackwell’s Literature Compass
- The Heroic Age
- Medieval Forum
- Scriptorium: International Journal of Medieval Manuscript Studies (includes a searchable index of manuscript citations in Scriptorium and Bulletin Codicologique)
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Centers, Projects, Organizations
- ISAS (International Society of Anglo-Saxonists)
- TOEBI (Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland)
- Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales
- The Medieval Academy of America
- The Richard Rawlinson Center at the Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University
- University of Nottingham Institute for Medieval Studies
- Viking Society for Northern Research
- Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: A Register of Written Sources Used by Anglo-Saxon Authors
- The Thesaurus of Old English
- Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
- Anglo-Saxon Plant Name Survey
- Institute for Name Studies, University of Nottingham
- Early English Text Society
- The Digital Medievalist Project: A Community of Practice for Medievalists Working with Digital Media
- Manuscriptorium: Virtual research environment for historical resources
- Anglo-Saxon MSS in Microfiche Facsimile
- Jorvik Viking Centre, York
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Old English Language Study and Dictionaries
- The Dictionary of Old English home page
- Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary online
- Bosworth-Toller online - another version
- Thesaurus of Old English
- Electronic Introduction to Old English (Peter Baker)
- Old English Grammar online (Murray McGillivray)
- Online copy of Bright’s Old English Reader (Sean Crist)
- Online copy of Clark Hall’s Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Sean Crist)
- Old English Literature - A Hypertext Coursepack
- History of the English Language (Edwin Duncan)
- Fonts
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Libraries and Catalogues
- Columbia University Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections
- Medieval Manuscript Catalogues & Inventories (Andy Holt Virtual Library)
- Libraries and Library Catalogues online
- The European Library: National Libraries of Europe
- Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales
- Berlin, Staatsbibliothek
- Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van Beĺgië (Royal Library of Belgium
- Cambridge University Library
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
- Cambridge, Trinity College Library
- Cambridge, St. John’s College
- Chicago, Newberry Library
- Cologne, CEEC: Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis
- Copenhagen, Koneglige Bibliotek
- Cork, University College, CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
- Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Carl A. Kroch Library
- Cornell University, Fiske Icelandic Collection
- Dublin, National Library of Ireland
- Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland
- Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota
- The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
- The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van Nederland (Royal Library of the Netherlands)
- The Library of Congress online catalog
- Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum
- Manuscript Mediaevalia (Manuscript catalogues for German libraries)
- London, The British Library
- London, National Archives (formerly Public Record Office)
- Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana
- Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
- Munich, Halm’s Catalogi codicum Latinorum Monacensium
- New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
- New York, Morgan Library
- New York Public Library
- Notre Dame University, Medieval Institute Library
- Oxford, Bodleian Library
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France
- St Gallen, Codices Electronici Sangallensis
- St Louis University, Vatican Film Library
- St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum
- Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
- Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
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Aids to Manuscript Study
- Guide to Medieval Manuscript Catalogs (U of Pennsylvania)
- Links for Source-based Textual Scholarship (Andy Holt Virtual Library)
- Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters - Handschriftenarchiv
- Resources for Finding Medieval Manuscripts (Cornell U)
- Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts (UCLA)
- E-Codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
- Electronic Palaeography: A Bibliographical Website (in memoriam Leonard Boyle, O.P.)
- Source-based Textual Scholarship (from the Andy Holt Virtual Library)
- Historische Hilfswissenschaften, Paläographie (Online resources for palaeography and manuscript study)
- Paul Oskar Kristeller’s Latin Manuscript Books Before 1600: A List of the Printed Cataogues and Unpublished Inventories of Extant Collections
- W. Wattenbach, Das Schriftwesen im Mittelater
- Michelle Brown, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (British Library)
- Theleme. Techniques pour l’historien en ligne: etudes, manuels, exercises (École Nationale des Chartes)
- Writing in the Middle Ages (syllabus and course outline, University of Southampton)
- Palaeography exercises online
- PECIA: Le manuscrit médiéval (News of publications and events)
- Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections newsletter (UK)
- MANCASS C11 Database Project
- Old English manuscripts database (Excel spreadsheet)
- Cursus: An Online Resource of Medieval Liturgical Texts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
- Anglo-Saxon Charters (includes a searchable database of Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters)
- Charter search engine at Sean Miller’s Anglo-Saxon.net
- DEEDS: Database of Dated English Charters
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Online Manuscript Images and Facsimiles
- Digital Scriptorium, Columbia University Library
- DScriptorium
- British Library Images Online
- Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
- Digital Image Collection, Cambridge University Library
- Irish Scripts on Screen (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
- Digital Manuscripts online from German libraries
- Codices Electronici Sangallensis (Library of St Gall)
- CEEC: Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis, Erzbischöflichen Diözesan- und Dombibliothek, Cologne
- Digital images from the Kongelige Bibliothek, Copenhagen
- The Art of the Book in the Middle Ages (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- The Schøyen Collection
- The Blickling Homilies (Princeton, Scheide Library MS Scheide M71)
- The Durham Liber Vitae Project, online facsimile/edition of London, BL Cotton Domitian VII (in progress)
- The Calendar and the Cloister: Oxford, St. John’s College MS 17
- The Book of Deer Project
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Old English and Anglo-Saxon Texts and Translations
- Sources disponibles en ligne à propos du haut Moyen Âge (Thomas Lienhard)
- The Oxford Text Archive
- The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose
- Online Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Murray McGillivray)
- In Parentheses, reprinted translations (mostly 19th century) of Old English texts, in .pdf format
- Electronic Ælfric Project (in progress)
- Stuart Lee, Ælfric’s homilies on Judith, Esther, and the Maccabees
- Alfred’s Boethius (Old English, from BL Cotton MS Otho A. vi)
- Alfred’s Boethius (Sedgefield’s Modern English Translation)
- Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (Latin)
- Bede, Ecclesiastical History (Modern English translation, Medieval Sourcebook)
- Hypertext edition of Beowulf (Ann Savage)
- Beowulf on Steorarume (Benjamin Slade)
- Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery (Richard Ringler)
- “Graphotactic” editions of Beowulf and The Letter of Alexander (Robert Stevick)
- Beowulfiana: Modern Adaptations of Beowulf (John William Sutton)
- Anglo-Saxon Charms (Karen Jolly)
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Tony Jebson)
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Modern English translation)
- “St. Mary of Egypt in BL MS Otho B. x: New Textual Evidence for an Old English Saint's Life” (Linda Cantara)
- Early English Laws (in progress)
- Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy (Yale Law School)
- Early Medieval Record-Keeping: exploring the preservation of medieval memoranda (Jonathan Herold)
- Anglo-Saxon Penitentials: a cultural database (Allen J. Frantzen)
- The Paris Prose - Paris Psalter, Psalms 1-50 (Richard Stracke)
- Exeter Book Riddles, text and Craig Williamson’s translations
- Rood and Ruthwell: the Poem and the Cross
- Wulfstan’s Eschatological Homilies (Joyce Lionarons)
- Wulfstan’s Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (Melissa Bernstein)
- Grettir’s Saga (G. H. Hight translation, 1914; Online Medieval and Classical Library)
- Saganet - MSS and printed texts of the entire corpus of Icelandic Sagas
- Facsimile edition of Eduard Sievers' Heliand (1878)
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Archaeology, Artifacts, and Art History
- ArchNet - Guide to Archaeology web sites
- Guide to Images of Anglo-Saxon artifacts
- Council for British Archaeology
- Archaeology Data Service
- BIAB: the British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography
- Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
- Museum of London Archaeological Service
- Current Archaeology magazine
- Gazetteer - Roman Military Sites in Britain
- Internet Archaeology online journal
- Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture project
- Celtic Inscribed Stones Project
- Infimae Aetatis - Data Bank of Late Antique & Medieval Inscriptions
- Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds
- Celtic Digital Archive (images, texts, articles)
- Vindolanda Tablets Online project
- Frisia and Frisians (Artifacts, Texts, Links)
- Sutton Hoo Society
- Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Index of Christian Art, Princeton University
- International Center of Medieval Art
- Art History Resources on the Web – Medieval Art
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Cultural and Historical Sites
- Maps of Anglo-Saxon England (Simon Keynes)
- Index of Early Medieval Maps 400-1300 A.D.
- Perry-Catañeda Library Map Collection, U of Texas, Austin
- Maps & Images, Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- Bede Net: Resources devoted to the Venerable Bede
- Bibliotheca Hagiographical Latina Manuscripta (Société des Bollandistes)
- Apocalyptic Ideas in Old English Literature (Carolin Esser)
- Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
- Anglo-Saxon Penitentials: a cultural database (Allen J. Frantzen)
- Osprey Publishing, Essential Norman Conquest (for students)
- Anglo-Norman Hub
- The Saxon Lyre: History, Construction, and Playing Techniques (Dofinn-Hallr Morrisson and Thóra Sharptooth)
- Calendar Calculator & Tools (O. Lieberknecht)
- Ian’s English Calendar (Ian MacInnes)
- Online Calendar of Saints Days
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Sources, Backgrounds and Texts in medieval Christianity
- Medieval Latin: Introductory Bibliography
- Manuel pratique de latin médiévale (Dag Norberg), English translation by R.H. Johnson
- A Guide to Research in the History of the Medieval Christian Church (Thomas Head)
- Aids for Studying Saints’ Cults (Graham Jones)
- Documenta Catholica Omnia - huge collection of scanned texts in .pdf format
- The Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Guide to Early Christian Documents
- Father of the Church (New Advent)
- Works of the early Church Fathers
- The Latin Library
- Bibliotheca Augustana
- Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum (David Camden)
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica
- Latin Literature via Google Books (Mischa Hooker)
- L’Institut des Sources Chrétiennes, Histoire et Sources des Mondes Antiques (HiSoMA), Lyon
- Medieval Christian Biblical Exegesis in English Translation, c. 600-1515 (Jonathan Hall)
- The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1912
- Resources on the Old Latin and Vulgate Bible versions
- The Clementine Vulgate Bible
- The Douay-Rheims Bible
- The Unbound Bible (many versions, searchable)
- The Rule of St Benedict (Latin and English versions)
- The Perseus Digital Library (Greek and Latin resources, including Lewis and Short’s Latin Dictionary
- Du Cange, Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis
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