Educational Resources

[Page under reconstruction]

A Selection of Websites, Bibliographies, Journals, Conferences, and Societies

begun in the mists of modern times by Carol L. Robinson; updated by Deborah Sinnreich-Levi some years ago, and now again with the invaluable help of Lindsay Pereira.

There are four parts to this list of resources: I) Electronic tools, II) Bibliographies & General Information, III) Online Sources Listed by Subject, and IV) Conferences, Journals, and Societies.  This is a revised project that will be continually updated.  If you have a scholarly link that you would like to suggest — or if you would like to help build and maintain this list of resources (become a part of the TEAMS Educational Resources Team) — please send an email  to Deborah Sinnreich-Levi, profsinnreichlevi@gmail.com.  Thank you.

UPDATED: March 14, 2025

Where possible, in an effort to save surfing time, links listed will include descriptions from the websites they point to.

First and foremost, for reliable texts and translations, always see:  the Middle English Text Series.  "METS is a diverse, ever-growing collection of edited medieval texts, [whose] editions represent the medieval literary traditions and cultures that flourished in what is modern-day Britain and Ireland. [METS] is committed to publishing affordable print and open access digital editions that are accessible to all."

"The Middle English Text Series was established in 1990 with the goal of providing authoritative and accessible editions of the widest possible range of literary production from the Insular Middle Ages to the widest possible readership....In 1988, a collective of like-minded scholars in the field of medieval English literature took action to lower the barriers to entry that exist for students accessing medieval texts. This collective, then called the Consortium for Teaching the Middle Ages and now known as the Teaching Association for Medieval Studies (TEAMS), established its inaugural Editorial Board that year ...."

Section I:
General Electronic Tools

When TEAMS first began publishing electronic resources, they were neither abundant nor easily found.  This section will either be greatly augmented [volunteers sought to assist with that endeavor] or subsumed into another category.  Contact Deborah Sinnreich-Levi profsinnreichlevi@gmail.com if you would like to help.]

Teaching the Middle Ages in Higher Education (Omeka)

Middle Ages for Educators (Princeton)

Medieval Digital Resources (Medieval Academy of America)

Section II:

Bibliographies & General Information

The following list of resources is based on Alan Lupack's original list, published some years ago in The Once and Future Classroom.  As is the way with everything electronic, some pages have vanished, some moved to other institutions, some just changed.  TEAMS acknowledges the work Dr. Alan Lupack, Curator of the Robbins Library (University of Rochester) originally curated as "Library Resources on Medieval Topics."

General Information Online Sources

greatly changed, moved from Georgetown

"MDR is a curated database of peer-reviewed digital materials for the study of the Middle Ages. Users can browse an alphabetical list or search using controlled-vocabulary subject tags to find vetted online resources of many types, including: imagebanks; bibliographies and reference works; pedagogical tools; editions and translations; music and other multimedia collections; interpretative websites; and new works of digital scholarship. Please note that MDR does not include resources that are paywalled or require password access, although some resources may have restrictive use-licenses. The Database can be accessed from the Resources tab of the Medieval Academy of America website."

"The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (MEMDB) is a project established at Rutgers University and originally cosponsored by the Research Libraries Group (RLG), Inc. Its aim is to provide scholars with an expanding library of information in electronic format on the medieval and early modern periods of European history, circa 800-1815 C.E.."

"This resource explores the history and development of words related to impairment in all its forms."

List of links for NYU grad students

"The Medieval and Classical Literature Library is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization. Search or Browse by: Author, Title, Genre, Language"

Part of The Voice of the Shuttle:  http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=1904

Section III:
Online Sources Listed by Subject

Archeology

Art

Arthurian Studies

"This is the personal academic website of Dr Caitlin R. Green, ... maintained since 1998."  

See also Arthuriana:  The Journal of Arthurian Studies.  The Chronology was once a project of that journal.

Beowulf

Geoffrey Chaucer

"The Canterbury Tales Project aims to transcribe, collate, and edit the 88 fifteen-century witnesses of the text."

"The Chaucer Bibliography Online is supported by The University of Texas at San Antonio Library and The New Chaucer Society. This bibliography includes Chaucer studies from 1958 until the present....This bibliography reproduces in searchable form the annotated Chaucer Bibliography published annually in Studies in the Age of Chaucer (1979-present), with corrections and additions."

"This project was initiated at the 33rd International Congress of Medieval Studies by a group of medievalists interested in promoting Chaucer studies on the internet. Its aims are:  to organize and provide navigation aides for Chaucer resources on the internet; to work towards enhancing and extending those resources; and to encourage Chaucer studies, including those undertaken via “distance learning,” at all levels of education."

"This site provides materials for Harvard University's Chaucer classes in the Core Program, the English Department, and the Division of Continuing Education. (Others of course are welcome to use it.) It provides a wide range of glossed Middle English texts and translations of analogues relevant to Chaucer's works, as well as selections from relevant works by earlier and later writers, critical articles from a variety of perspectives, graphics, and general information on life in the Middle Ages. At the moment the site concentrates on the Canterbury Tales, but the longer-term goal is to create a more general Chaucer page."

"In his own day, Chaucer’s London-based variety of Middle English incorporated vocabulary from Latin as well as living vernacular languages (French, Italian, and Dutch among them), and the poet’s work shows how Middle English varies depending on a person’s social class, gender, ethnicity, and regional background. In this spirit, Global Chaucers embraces the wide variety of Englishes across the globe today, including local dialects or regional variants, pidgins, creoles, and many diasporic language varieties. We maintain an openness to language and culture, and we seek to challenge narrow ideas of what “counts” as proper English, past or present."

Cooking & Food

  • A Chaucerian Cookery  
  • clearly, we need more links to fill out this section.  Do send some to profsinnreichlevi@gmail.com.

English Language and Literature

Anglo-Saxon England & Old English Literature

Anglo-Norman England & Literature

"Middle Ages for Educators" – a video  and many useful links

Middle English & Late Medieval Literature

Gender Studies,  Feminism, and LGBTQ+

Graphics: Maps, Manuscripts, . . .

History

Music

Robin Hood

Section IIV:
Journals, & Societies

NB:  This section used to include a set of links to scholarly conferences.  Readers are advised to look on the pages of various societies to find information about conferences, calls for papers, and other information that does not linger long past its usefulness.  Similarly, links to blogs have been deleted.  Since TEAMS first had a website, use use of blogs has faded.  

Academic Journals

Blogs & Podcasts

Members are asked to send links to other blogs, AND to help build a list of podcasts, which did not exist when this page was first built.

Academic Societies

Non-Academic Societies