Medieval Databases

• Labyrinth Home
  • Labyrinth is a very large index and repository of medieval resources, located at Georgetown University...
• ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
  • "The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World-Wide Web."
• Chaucer Bibliography
  • The Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, originally published in Studies in the Age of Chaucer. New and improved as of 2002.
• The Glossarial Database of Middle English
  • Glossaries for Chaucer, Gower, and more (Harvard University)...
• Middle English Compendium
  • The Compendium homepage gives access to a model version of the Compendium consisting of (i) a searchable single fascicle of the eMED covering q-ra-, (ii) a searchable 100-item sample of the HyperBibliography of ME texts used in the MED, with bibliographical information for each work, covering IMEV and Manual, the manuscripts, scribal dialects, editions and available electronic texts, (iii) a corpus of 42 ME texts, with rich search options, which can be applied to the entire database, or individual texts, or a personally selected ("bookbagged") group of texts.
• The Dictionary of Old English / Old English Corpus
• Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: A Register of Written Sources Used by Authors in Anglo-Saxon England
  • is intended to identify all written sources which were incorporated, quoted, translated or adapted anywhere in English or Latin texts which were written in Anglo-Saxon England (i.e. England to 1066), or by Anglo-Saxons in other countries.
• Glossarial Database of Middle English (Harvard)
  • A tool to investigate the contextualized uses and meanings of words in Chaucer, Gower, and others. To use:
    1. Type a word in the box at top left. Then click SEARCH DICTIONARY. The search engine will take a few seconds, come back with your word and offer to add it to the list. Click YES.
    2. At the bottom left choose a text or texts.
    3. At top right you should see the target and the text displayed. Click SEARCH (top right).
• Medtextl Database
  • The Medtextl Database is the full-text database for the Listserv discussion group Medtextl.
• ANSAXDAT
  • A searchable database of materials generated by the Ansaxnet discussion list (now on the Web!)
• MANCASS C11 Database
  • Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, Inventory of Script Categories and Spellings in Eleventh-Century English
• Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible
  • The ARTFUL Project's Searchable Vulgate...
• The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum
  • Database for Latin music theory at the Indiana University School of Music...
• Medieval Music Theory pages
• Guide to Medieval & Renaissance Musical Instruments
• English Poetry Database
  • A searchable e-text database...
• The Dartmouth Dante Project
  • When you get the opening on-line catalog menu (e.g. "Welcome to Dartmouth") type CONNECT DANTE and press RETURN (or ENTER). At the next prompt (for terminal type) type VT100, or whichever type your computer emulates. To leave the Dante Project, type q (for QUIT); to leave the Dartmouth College Library, type BYE...