Internet Sites for Anglo-Saxon Studies

The following list represents a limited and provisional collection of links to useful websites for the study of Anglo-Saxon culture. The list is necessarily incomplete; we apologize for any omissions and welcome any suggestions for inclusion. When a site is the work of a single individual, we have tried to attribute the site to its creator, and would be especially grateful to know of any omissions in this regard. Finally, every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the list, but the evolving nature of the internet makes it inevitable that not all links will be current. Please send any suggestions for inclusion, or notices or errors or broken links, to editor@oenewsletter.org).

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• Metasites (collections of links) and gateways


• ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• Simon Keynes, homepage (invaluable links)
• Humbul Humanities Hub
• Andy Holt Virtual Library
• Michelle Ziegler, Early Medieval Resources for Britain, Ireland and Brittany
• Sean Miller, Anglo-Saxon.net


• Bibliographies and Databases


• Royal Historical Society Bibliography
• Carole Biggam, “Select Bibliography of Anglo-Saxon studies”
• Simon Keynes, “Anglo-Saxon History: a Select Bibliography”
• Janet Bately, “Anonymous Old English Homilies: A Preliminary Bibliography of Source Studies”
• Christine Rauer, “The Old English Martyrology: an annotated bibliography”
• Kari Ellen Gade and R. D. Fulk, “Bibliography of Germanic Alliterative Meters”
• Regesta Imperia (database for European History from Antiquity to the Renaissance)
• James Marchand, “WEMSK: What Every Medievalist Should Know” (outstanding series of bibliographies)


• Online Publications


• The Medieval Review, online archive of reviews
• Reviews in History, online reviews journal of the Institute of Historical Research.
• Exemplaria A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• 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)


• Centers, Projects, Organizations


• ISAS (International Society of Anglo-Saxonists)
• Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: A Register of Written Sources Used by Anglo-Saxon Authors
• The Thesaurus of Old English
• TOEBI (Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland)
• AnsaxDat, full-text database of posting to the online discussion group ANSAXNET
• Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
• Early English Text Society
• Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales
• The Medieval Academy of America
• The Digital Medievalist Project: A Community of Practice for Medievalists Working with Digital Media
• The Richard Rawlinson Center at the Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University
• University of Nottingham Institute for Medieval Studies
• Anglo-Saxon MSS in Microfiche Facsimile
• Graduate Programs in Medieval Art History in North America
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
• LABYRINTH: Medieval Studies Organizations
• AcqWeb Directory of Publishers and Vendors (Vanderbilt University)


• Old English Language Study and Dictionaries


• The Dictionary of Old English home page
• Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary online
• Peter Baker, Electronic Introduction to Old English
• Murray McGillivray, Old English Grammar online
• A brief list of OE grammars online
• Sean Crist, online version of Bright’s Old English Reader


• Fonts


• Peter Baker, Junicode: a Unicode font for OE:
• Odd Einar Haugen (University of Bergen), Gullhornet: a Rune font
• Gentium, Unicode font for linguistics and most languages of the world
• Linguistics Computing Resources


• Libraries and Catalogues (not all strictly Anglo-Saxon)


• Libraries and Library Catalogues online
• Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
• Halm’s Catalogi codicum Latinorum Monacensium
• Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven

• Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan

• Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City

• Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

• Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

• The British Library, London

• British Library Images Online (by subject titles)

• Cambridge University Library

• CEEC: Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis, Cologne

• CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, University College Cork

• Charters: DEEDS Corpus of private Latin charters
• Charter search engine at Sean Miller’s Anglo-Saxon.net
• CHD Center for Handskriftstudier i Danmark / The Institute for the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts in Denmark
(specializing in Books of Hours)

• Codices Electronici Sangallensis (descriptions and facsimiles from the Abbey Library of St. Gallen)
• Columbia University Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections

• Cursus: An Online Resource of Medieval Liturgical Texts, University of East Anglia, Norwich

• Digital Scriptorium, University of California at Berkeley

• Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University

• DScriptorium

• The European Library

• Fiske Icelandic Collection, Cornell University

• The Getty, Los Angeles

• Gutenburg Digital, Göttingen

• Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota

• The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA

• The Index of Christian Art, Princeton University

• L’Institut des Sources Chrétiennes, Histoire et Sources des Mondes Antiques (HiSoMA), Lyon

• International Center of Medieval Art, New York

• Irish Script on Screen, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

• Det Koneglige Bibliotek, Copenhagen

• Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library of Belgium), Brussels
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek van Nederland, Den Haag

• The Library of Congress online catalog
• Manuscripta Mediaevalia

• Manuscript Mediaevalia: Handschriftenkatalogue 
(Manuscript catalogues for libraries in Germany listed by place name)

• Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts: Koninklige Bibliotheek and Museum Meermanno, The Hague

• Medieval Institute Library, University of Notre Dame

• National Archives, London (formerly Public Record Office)
• National Library of Ireland, Dublin

• National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

• National Library of Wales
• Newberry Library, Chicago

• New York Public Library

• Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
• Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

• PECIA: Resources en médiévistique

• PECIA: Le manuscrit médiéval
 (News of publications and events)

• The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

• St. John’s College, Cambridge

• Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
• State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

• Trinity College Library, Cambridge
• Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University


• Aids to Manuscript Study


• Michelle Brown, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (British Library)
• Manuscript-based Textual Scholarship (from the Andy Holt Virtual Library)
• MANCASS C11 Database Project
• 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
• Online resources for palaeography and manuscript study (in German)
• Fernando de Lasala, Exercises in Latin Palaeography
• Palaeography exercises online
• Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections newsletter (UK)
• Writing in the Middle Ages (syllabus and course outline, University of Southampton)
• Old English manuscripts database (Excel spreadsheet)


• Online Manuscript Facsimiles


• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University – digital facsimiles of many Oxford MSS
• Anglo-Saxon Charters (includes a searchable database of Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters)
• Digital Library at Cambridge University Library (includes the Book of Deer and the Anglo-Norman Life of Saint Edward the Confessor)
• The Durham Liber Vitae Project, online facsimile/edition of London, BL Cotton Domitian VII (in progress)
• Digital Manuscripts online from German libraries
• Codices Electronici Sangallensis (descriptions and facsimiles from the Abbey Library of St. Gallen)
• Online catalogue and facsimiles of manuscripts, Erzbischöflichen Diözesan- und Dombibliothek, Cologne
• Codex Argenteus (Uppsala University Library) online
• Digital facsimiles of medieval manuscripts in the Kongelige Bibliothek, Copenhagen


• Old English and Anglo-Saxon Texts and Translations


• The Oxford Text Archive
• The Brooklyn-Geneva-Amsterdam-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English
• Alphabetical Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (from the Labyrinth)
• Duncan Macrae-Gibson, Metric Syntactic Scan of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records
• Tony Jebson, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
• Alfred’s Boethius in Old English
• Sedgefield’s Modern English Translation of Alfred’s Boethius
• Bede’s Ecclesiastical History (translation, from the Medieval Sourcebook)
• Mary Jane Toswell, The Blickling Homilies (text and translation)
• Joyce Lionarons, Wulfstan’s Eschatological Homilies
• Melissa Bernstein, Wulfstan, Sermo Lupi ad Anglos
• Paul Szarmach et al., The Life of St. Edmund in Latin, Old English, and Anglo-Norman
• Richard Stracke, The Paris Psalter
• David W. Porter, A Glossary of Architectural Terms from Two Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
• Jonathan Herold, “Early Medieval Record-Keeping and the Nero-Middleton Cartulary”
• Karen Jolly, Anglo-Saxon Charms
• Stuart Lee, Ælfric’s homilies on Judith, Esther, and the Maccabees
• Linda Cantara, “St. Mary of Egypt in BL MS Otho B. x: New Textual Evidence for an Old English Saint's Life”
• Elizabeth Elstob’s 1709 “English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-Day of St. Gregory”
• M. D. Livingston, Wulf and Eadwacer
• Tim Romano’s edition and translation of The Wanderer
• Facsimile edition of Eduard Sievers' Heliand (1878)
• General site on the Battle of Maldon
• Wendy Collier’s “Bibliography of The Battle of Maldon”
• Rood and Ruthwell: the Poem and the Cross
• Exeter Book Riddles, text and Craig Williamson’s translations
• Grettir’s Saga (G. H. Hight translation, 1914; Online Medieval and Classical Library)
• Syd Allan’s Beowulf site
• Ann Savage, Hypertext edition of Beowulf
• Benjamin Slade’s Beowulf site
• Richard Ringler, Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery
• Robert Stevick's “Graphotactics”
• The poem of the Vercelli Book


• Archaeology, Artifacts, and Art History


• Council for British Archaeology gateway – includes online bibliography, publications, and much more
• Council for British Archaeology Research Reports
• BIAB: the British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography
• Sutton Hoo Society
• Museum of London Archaeological Service
• J.W. Huggett, Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries (descriptions and statistical analysis)
• Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture project
• Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds
• Vinolanda Tablets Online project
• Guide to Images of Anglo-Saxon artifacts
• Celtic Inscribed Stones Project
• Index of Early Medieval Maps 400-1300 A.D.
• Maps of Anglo-Saxon England (Simon Keynes)
• British Museum COMPASS (images of artifacts; search for “Anglo-Saxon”)
• Art History Resources on the Web – Medieval Art
• Medieval Art History sites


• Cultural and Historical Sites


• Bede Net: Resources devoted to the Venerable Bede
• Carolin Esser, “Apocalyptic Ideas in Old English Literature”
• Dawn Hayes, “Pregnancy and Childbirth in Anglo-Saxon England”
• Institute of Name Study, A Key to English Place-Names
• Osprey Publishing, Essential Norman Conquest
• Dofinn-Hallr Morrisson and Thóra Sharptooth, “The Saxon Lyre: History, Construction, and Playing Techniques”

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