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Middle English Language and Literature

This guide provides a selective list of resources on Middle English Langauge and Literature available through the Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University.

For related internet sites, see Voice of the Shuttle or Jack Lynch's Literary Resources on the Net.

If you have any questions, comments, or recommendations for additions to this guide, please contact Don Juedes, Librarian for English Langauge and Literature.

 
Selected Hopkins Electronic Resources
This link opens a new window - Info About Corpus de la littérature médiévale Corpus de la littérature médiévale  (Eisenhower AV)
This link opens a new window - Info About English Drama, 1280-1915 English Drama, 1280-1915  (All US JHU)

Selected Library of Congress Subject Headings (Search JHU Catalog)

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism. 
Romances--History and criticism. 
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism. 
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400--History and criticism.
Journals
• Comitatus; A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Exemplaria (Table of Contents)
• Medieval Renaissance Drama Society Newsletter
• Medieval Review (formerly Bryn Mawr Medieval Review)
• Speculum (Journal of the Middle Ages)
Selected Internet Resources
• Anthology of Medieval Literature
• Arthurian Literature
• Canon of John Lydgate Project
• The Canterbury Tales
• General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
• The Chaucer Pedagogy Page
• Essays and Articles on Chaucer
• Essays in Medieval Studies
• Glossarial Database of Middle English
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Labyrinth: A World Wide Web Server for Medieval Studies (Georgetown University)
• Labyrinth Middle English Bookcase (Georgetown University)
• Luminarium: Site for Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th-Century English Literature
• Medieval Feminist Index
• Michigan Early Modern English Materials
• New Chaucer Society
• Geoffrey Chaucer: The Electronic Canterbury Tales
• ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (College of Staten Island)
• Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (University of Virginia; copyright Hoyt N. Duggan)
• TEAMS Middle English Texts
Bibliography, Indexes, Guides

Old and Middle English literature, vol. 146 (Detroit: Gale, 1994). A guide to major writers and anonymous works (e.g., Alliterative Morte Arthure, N-Town Plays) that lists EETS; editions and modern English editions. Includes appendices "English Language 410-1500," "Anglo-Norman Literature," and "Celtic Background to Medieval Literature." Eisenhower General Reference PR 166 .O43 1994 QUARTO

Middle English Prose: A Critical Guide to Major Authors and Genres. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 1984. Libraries Service Center PO255 .M52 1984

Index of Middle English Verse. New York : Printed for the Index society by Columbia University Press, 1943. Eisenhower Stacks PO504.5 .B85

Language

Middle English dictionary. Hans Kurath, editor. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1956. 
Eisenhower General Reference PE 679.M54 1954 QUARTO

A Middle-English Dictionary. A new ed., re-arranged, rev., and enl. by H. Bradley. (Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1891; 1974 printing). 
Eisenhower General Reference PE 679 .S7 1974

The Cambridge history of the English language.  New York: Cambridge, 1992. 
Eisenhower D-Level Blue Labels PE1072.C36 1992.

Old and Middle English language studies: a classified bibliography, 1923-1985  / compiled by Matsuji Tajima. Philadelphia: J Benjamins Pub. Co., 1988. Eisenhower Stacks PO20 .T23 1988.

Visser, Fredericus. An historical syntax of the English language.  Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1963-73.
Libraries Service Center PN1361.V5 1963 Q

Other Works of Reference

Old and Middle English Literature. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968.
Libraries Service Center PO 20 .M5 1968

The index of Middle English verse [by] Carleton Brown and Rossell Hope Robbins. New York, Printed for the Index Society by Columbia University Press, 1943.
Eisenhower Stacks PO504.5 .B85

The index of Middle English verse: supplement. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1965 [c1966].
Eisenhower Stacks PO504.5 .B85 Suppl.

Register of Middle English Religious and Didactic Verse. Oxford : Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the University Press, 1916-1920.
Libraries Service Center PO504.5 .B87

Drama

* Medieval English Drama: an annotated bibliography of recent criticism. New York: garland Pub, 1990.
Eisenhower Stacks PO629 .B47 1990

* The Cambridge companion to medieval English theatre. New York: Cambridge UP, 1994.
Eisenhower Stacks P4587 .C36 1994

* Annals of English drama, 975-1700: an analytical record of all plays, extant or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles, dramatic companies. Philadelphia: U Pennsylvania P, 1964.
Eisenhower Stacks PO629 .H25 1964

Bibliography of Medieval Drama, rev. ed. New York: F Ungar, 1972. 
Eisenhower General Reference Z 5782.S8 1972. Updates include:
    o Bibliography of Medieval Drama 1969-1972. 
       Libraries Service Center AS36 .K22 v.34 no.4 
    o Bibliography of Medieval Drama 1973-1976.
       Libraries Service Center AS36 .K22 v.35 no.1
    o Bibliography of Medieval Drama 1977-1980. 
       Libraries Service Center AS36 .K22 v.37 no.2

Companion to the Medieval Theatre. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Eisenhower General Reference PN 2152 .C66 1989

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