There are a surprising number of excellent web sites devoted to Old English and Anglo-Saxon studies; these are a few of the ones I visit regularly. Please feel free to recommend other links, and please report any broken, changed, or missing links, to rliuzza@utk.edu. NOTE: links open in a new window.

Metasites (collections of links) and gateways

• ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies http://www.the-orb.net/
• Andy Holt Virtual Library (University of Tennessee, Martin) – large and well-maintained site with links to texts and resources in the humanities and fine arts http://www.utm.edu/vlibrary/vlhome.shtml
• Simon Keynes’ homepage (invaluable links) http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/asindex.html
• Humbul Humanities Hub http://www.humbul.ac.uk
• Michelle Ziegler’s Early Medieval Resources for Britain, Ireland and Brittany http://members.aol.com/michellezi/resources-index.html
• Sean Miller’s Anglo-Saxon.net http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/

Bibliographies and Databases

• Royal Historical Society Bibliography http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/dataset.asp
• Old English Newsletter Bibliography database (free registration required) http://www.oenewsletter.org/OENDB/index.php
• WEMSK: James Marchand’s outstanding series of bibliographies, “What Every Medievalist Should Know” http://www.the-orb.net/wemsk/wemskmenu.html
• Carole Biggam’s Select Bibliography of Anglo-Saxon studies http://bubl.ac.uk/docs/bibliog/biggam/
• Simon Keynes’ Anglo-Saxon History: a Select Bibliography http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/rawl/keynesbib/index.html
• Kari Ellen Gade and R. D. Fulk, Bibliography of Germanic Alliterative Meters http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/saslc/fulk/
• Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: A Register of Written Sources Used by Anglo-Saxon Authors http://fontes.english.ox.ac.uk/
• The Thesaurus of Old English http://libra.englang.arts.gla.ac.uk/oethesaurus/

Old English Language Study and Dictionaries

• Peter Baker, Electronic Introduction to Old English http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/rawl/IOE/index.html
• Murray McGillivray, Old English Grammar online http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/info.htm
• A brief list of OE grammars online http://has55.www9.50megs.com/OEAS/OEGrammars.htm
• Sean Crist, online version of Bright’s Old English Reader http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/oe_bright_about.html
• The Dictionary of Old English home page http://www.doe.utoronto.ca/
• Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary online http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/BT/Bosworth-Toller.htm

Fonts

• Peter Baker, Junicode: a Unicode font for OE: http://junicode.sourceforge.net/
• Gullhornet, Rune font http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/Runefonter/Gullhornet-e.html
• Gentium, Unicode font for linguistics and most languages of the world http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/gentium/
• Linguistics Computing Resources http://www.sil.org/linguistics/computing.html

Aids to Manuscript Study

• Michelle Brown, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (British Library) http://www.fathom.com/course/10701049/index.html
• Writing in the Middle Ages (syllabus and course outline, University of Southampton) http://www.soton.ac.uk/~en648/
• Palaeography exercises online http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/exercises/exerciseindex.htm
• Manuscript-based Textual Scholarship (from the Andy Holt Virtual Library) http://www.utm.edu/vlibrary/codicol.shtml
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University – digital facsimiles of many Oxford MSS http://image.ox.ac.uk/
• Libraries and Library Catalogues online http://www.academicinfo.net/infoscilibcat.html
• MANCASS C11 Database Project http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/mancass/data/
• Paul Oskar Kristeller’s Latin Manuscript Books Before 1600: A List of the Printed Cataogues and Unpublished Inventories of Extant Collections http://www.mgh-bibliothek.de/kristeller/
• Online resources for palaeography and manuscript study (in German) http://www.vl-ghw.uni-muenchen.de/palaeographie.html

Old English and Anglo-Saxon Texts and Translations

• The Old English Literature Coursepack, hosted by Oxford University: http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/coursepack/
• The Oxford Text Archive http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
• The Brooklyn-Geneva-Amsterdam-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~sp20/corpus.html
• Tony Jebson, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle http://asc.jebbo.co.uk/
• Bede’s Ecclesiastical History (translation, from the Medieval Sourcebook) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/bede-book1.html
• Joyce Lionarons, Wulfstan’s Eschatological Homilies http://webpages.ursinus.edu/jlionarons/wulfstan/wulfstan.html
• Melissa Bernstein, Wulfstan’s Sermo Lupi ad Anglos http://english3.fsu.edu/~wulfstan/
• Exeter Book Riddles, text and Craig Williamson’s translations http://www2.kenyon.edu/AngloSaxonRiddles/texts.htm

Archaeology, Artifacts, and Art History

• Council for British Archaeology gateway – includes online bibliography, publications, and much more http://www.britarch.ac.uk/
• BIAB: the British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography http://www.biab.ac.uk/index.asp
• D. A. Postles, Images of Anglo-Saxon Churches http://www.le.ac.uk/elh/pot/leics/around.html
• Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture project http://www.dur.ac.uk/corpus/index.php3
• Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/coins/emc/
• Joseph Byrne’s Guide to Websites with Anglo-Saxon Images http://campus.belmont.edu/honors/ASImages/ASHome.htm
• Index of Early Medieval Maps 400-1300 A.D. http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/EM1.html
• Maps of Anglo-Saxon England (Simon Keynes) http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/asmaps.html
• British Museum COMPASS (images of artifacts; search for “Anglo-Saxon”) http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass
• Art History Resources on the Web – Medieval Art http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHmedieval.html
• Medieval Art History sites http://www.medievalarthistory.com/

Online Publications

• The Old English Newsletter Online http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/
• The Medieval Review, online archive of reviews http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/
• Reviews in History, online reviews journal of the Institute of Historical Research http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews
• Blackwell’s Literature Compass http://compass.bw.semcs.net/subject/literature/
• The Heroic Age http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/
• Medieval Forum http://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/
• The Digital Medievalist Project: A Community of Practice for Medievalists Working with Digital Media http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/

Centers, Projects, Organizations

• ISAS (International Society of Anglo-Saxonists) http://www.isas.us/about.html
• TOEBI (Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland) http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/toebi/
• Early English Text Society http://www.eets.org.uk/
• The Medieval Academy of America http://www.medievalacademy.org/

Sources, Backgrounds and Texts in Medieval Christianity

• The Clementine Vulgate Bible http://vulsearch.sourceforge.net/gettext.html
• The Douay-Rheims Bible (a translation of the Latin Vulgate) http://www.drbo.org/
• The Rule of St Benedict, in Latin and English http://www.osb.org/rb/index.html
• The Christian Classics Ethereal Library – large collection of texts http://www.ccel.org/
• Bibliotheca Augustana http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_chron.html
• The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1912 http://newadvent.org/cathen/
• Guide to Early Christian Documents http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html
• Works of the early Church Fathers http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/
• The Latin Library http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/index
• The Perseus Project (Greek and Latin resources, including Lewis and Short’s Latin Dictionary http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
• Medieval Latin: Introductory Bibliography http://www.people.virginia.edu/~bgh2n/medbib.html

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