Literatures in English - Anglo-Saxon and Medieval

William Blake's "Canterbury Pilgrims"

Catalogs

_ESTC: English Short Title Catalog (through the British Library)
The English Short Title Catalogue provides extensive descriptions and holdings information for letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language—as well as for materials printed in English anywhere else in the world. Coverage is from the beginnings of print to 1800 including all recorded English monographs printed between 1475 and 1700.

Dictionaries

Dictionary of Old English Corpus
Middle English Dictionary

Full Text Resources

Canterbury Tales (Riverside edition)
Full text, searchable edition of the Canterbury Tales.

Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
This collection of Middle English texts was assembled from works contributed by University of Michigan faculty and from texts provided by the Oxford Text Archive.

Early English Books Online (EEBO-TCP)
A growing collection of searchable texts (13,246 documents as of September 2006) listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalog of printed materials published in the English language from 1475 to 1640, in Wing's Short-Title Catalog of works dating from 1641 to 1700, and in Thomason Tracts, a compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War printed between 1640 and 1661. The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (TCP) will create 25,000 searchable and readable editions that link immediately to the corresponding ProQuest image files.
To search all EEBO titles (almost 125,000) and view full-page images, use the ProQuest version below.

Early English Books Online (ProQuest)
Full images from the more than 96,000 works listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalog of printed materials published in the English language from 1475 to 1640, in Wing's Short-Title Catalog of works dating from 1641 to 1700, and in Thomason Tracts, a compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War printed between 1640 and 1661. Documents may be viewed online using the DjVu Plugin or downloaded using Adobe Acrobat. Users may search by author keyword, title keyword, subject keyword, or bibliographic number. In addition, users may choose to search only within the illustrations, and may limit searches by originating collection, source library, language or date. Among the resources are over 200 editions of the works of William Shakespeare. Searchable by keywords in the citation only. To search within the texts, use the EEBO-TCP version.

English Poetry Database 600-1900
Virtually the entire canon of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to 1900; in all more than 165,000 poems by 1,250 poets drawn from 4,500 printed sources. Users may search by keywords and may employ Boolean operators. A complete, searchable bibliography of contained works is also available. Certain categories of material have been excluded from the database: translations into English verse after 1800, hymns published after 1800, works in languages other than English, verse drama intended for the stage, and poems never published or only published in contemporary newspapers, journals or miscellanies.

Literary Theory
Key texts from the history of literary theory and criticism.

Middle English Collection
Contains 65 tiles, most of which are publicly available through the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center.

Online Medieval and Classical Library
A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization TEAMS Middle English Texts The goal of the TEAMS Middle English text series is to make available to teachers and students texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily available in student editions.

The Orb: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

Indexes/Bibliographies of Journal Articles and Books

ABELL: Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
ABELL includes more than 700,000 bibliographic records in English and other European languages comprising scholarship on the English language, literature, bibliography, and traditional culture of the English-speaking world.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Available through Web of Science (Comes up as an option at the bottom of the opening screen)

Chaucer Bibliography Online

Humanities Abstracts
Bibliographic citations from more than 450 periodicals in topics such as archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Records added since 1994 have abstracts, and many citations have links to the full text of the article. Humanities Abstracts is searchable by keyword, author, title, and a variety of other fields. Articles in periodicals not held by NU libraries may be requested online through the Interlibrary Loan Deparment using the 'ILL' button at the top of the screen.

Humanities International Index
Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Humanities International Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.6 million records. The database includes all data from American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works. This database provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. Humanities International Index is a unique, essential collection for comprehensive coverage of the humanities.

The Hyperbibliography of Middle English
The HyperBibliography includes all the Middle English materials which are cited in the Middle English Dictionary.

International Medieval Bibliography
Covering the European Middle Ages, the International Medieval Bibliography includes entries from 4,000 periodicals and 5,000 miscellany volumes, including conference proceedings, essay collections, and Festschriften.

ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Iter provides citations to articles in approximately 230,000 records indexed from the complete runs of more than 400 scholarly journal titles covering the Renaissance and Middle Ages in Europe. Also under construction is a separate file comprising approximately 46,000 records encompassing monographs, material published in monographs, and collected essays. Users may search by subject, author, title, keywords, and publication date. Includes: Iter Bibliography, Iter Italicum, International Directory of Scholars (IDS), International Directory of Renaissance and Reformation Associations and Institutes (IDRRAI), Scholars of Early Modern Studies (SEMS), Renaissance Quarterly (RQ Online), Baptisteria Sacra, Electronic Capito Project.

MLA
The MLA International Bibliography consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. The database provides access to scholarly research in nearly 4,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Users may search or browse by author, title, subject and by several other fields using the 'Search Builder' feature. In addition, searches may be limited by language, publication type and publication year or range of years. The database includes a searchable thesaurus, and allows subject searches to be focused using 'role indicators' and 'subfield codes.'