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Arthurian Resources
This website looks at a number of topics, including whether or not King Arthur existed -- does he belong to history or legend? -- and what was the nature of the original British Arthurian legend, before it developed into the international Romance familiar from Tennyson and Malory.
British and Irish Authors on the Web
A list of authors and links to their web sites (from Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Associate Professor Research Division of Comparative Language and Culture Faculty of Language and Culture Graduate School of Languages & Cultures, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan)
The Camelot Project
THE CAMELOT PROJECT is designed to make available in electronic format a database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information. The project, begun in 1995, is sponsored by the University of Rochester and prepared in The Robbins Library, a branch of Rush Rhees Library.
The Canterbury Tour
Peter Collinson's tour of the City of Canterbury contains 500 pages, each with a photo and some text. The pages are paired, so a view in one direction is complemented by the view "behind you."
The Electronic Beowulf
The Electronic Beowulf is an image-based edition of Beowulf, the great Old English poem surviving in the British Library in a composite codex known as Cotton Vitellius A. xv.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
A very thorough guide to Medieval studies, this online source offers such things as historical documents, histories of saints, commentaries of medieval lifestyles and much, much more. This is a good place to start for critical resources as background for teaching any medieval literature.
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Study
The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world.
Luminarium
A site about medieval, rennaissance, and 17th century literature.
Norton Topics Online
Prepared by the Norton Anthology editors, this extensive, freely accessible Web resource for The Norton Anthology of English Literature offers twenty-eight topics — four per period — for study and discussion.
Renaissance Electronic Texts
A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works, published on the World Wide Web as a free resource for students of the period. (University of Toronto)
The Victorian Web
The Victorian Web is the WWW translation of Brown University's Context 61, which serves as a resource for courses in Victorian literature. These materials ultimately derive from Context 32, the Intermedia web that provided contextual information for English 32, "Survey of English literature from 1700 to the Present."
The Victorian Women Writers Project
Literary works by British women writers in the late Victorian period. (Indiana University)
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