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Writing and Research

General Medieval

Beowulf

Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight

King Arthur

Christine de Pizan

Chaucer

Dante

Medieval Drama

Writing and Research Tools
10 Common Mechanical/Stylistic Errors
MLA Style from UC, Berkeley
Brief Summary of MLA Style
Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
Library Research Tutorial
Avoiding Plagiarism Tutorial
Writing Guidelines by Dr. Janice Siegel

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General Medieval Links
Five Contributions of the Middle Ages
Reference Resources in UNM Library
ORB: The Online Reference Book For Medieval Studies
Art History from Mungo Art
The Heroic Age Online Journal
Labyrinth
Medieval Studies Periodicals
Medieval Sourcebook
Medieval Women, an Interactive site
What Every Medievalist Should Know

Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon Culture
Beowulf in Hypertext
Beowulf on Steorarume
Syd Allan -- Beowulf : Start Page
Resources for the Study of Beowulf
   (a good collection of sites, though many are accessible only through
     University of Nevada, Reno)
Beowulf at the British Library
Beowulf at Wikipedia
"Beowulf: Scandinavian Traditions - Personality of the Hero;
     Origin and Antiquity of the Poem; the Religious Element"
     by H. Munro Chadwick
Peter Baker's Reading of the Prologue
The Funeral of Scyld Scefing
     RealAudio recording of the Old English text by Steve Pollington
Beowulf: The History of the Manuscript
Anglo Saxon England: 542 - 1066
Regia Anglorum:
     Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British Living History
ORB Anglo-Saxon Resources
Map of Anglo-Saxon England
Sutton Hoo
     Good explanation of the History and Background
Anglo-Saxon Art and Objects
     from the British Museum Collection
Sutton Hoo Room

King Arthur
An Archeological Quest for King Arthur
Arthurian Resources
Arthuriana: The Journal of Arthurian Studies
Backgrounds to Romance: Courtly Love
     by Debora B. Schwartz, California Polytechnic State University
Britannia's Arthurian Resources
The Camelot Project
Image of page from Winchester manuscript of Malory's Le Morte Darthur
The Historicity and Historization of Arthur by Tom Green
King Arthur at Early British Kingdoms
King Arthur: A Man for the Ages
Llys Arthur -- Welsh sources for King Arthur
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Round Table at Winchester
Tintagel -- King Arthur's birthplace

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight website
Arthurian Romance I: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
     by Debora B. Schwartz, California Polytechnic State University
Medieval Imagination: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Resources
Audio Recording of First Fitt of Poem in Middle English
Backgrounds to Romance: Courtly Love
     by Debora B. Schwartz, California Polytechnic State University
Gawain page on the CAMELOT Project
Images from the Gawain Manuscript
     (from Clare Kinney's Engl 381 course)
Introduction to the poem as edited by Thomas Hahn
"The Poem as Green Girdle: Commercium in Sir Gawain and
     the Green Knight," article by R. Allen Shoaf
Kingughthood, Chivalry, and Tournaments website

Christine de Pizan
Opening Page of the City of Ladies
Education of Medieval Women and Christine de Pizan
Christine de Pizan Database
The Life and Triumph of Christine de Pizan

Chaucer
Cambridge History of Literature: Chaucer's Life
The Cambridge History: Canterbury Tales
Harvard's Chaucer Page
BBC Radio program on Chaucer
     (click play button on upper left)
Teach Yourself to Read Middle English
Canterbury Tales Online in Modern English
Classic Text, pages of Chaucer manuscripts
The Canterbury Tour
Chaucer Metapage
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale - A Study Guide

Dante
Renaissance Dante in Print
"Hubris and Prudence" (Student paper)
"Classical Horror in Dante's Inferno, Cantos XIII and XXV"
     (Student paper)
Introductory Lecture on Dante's Inferno by Ian Johnston
"How To Win Friends and Influence People" (Student paper)
Divine Comedy's Mathematical System
"The Role of the Church" (Student paper)
Digital Dante Project

Medieval Drama and Everyman
Cambridge History Literature: Mysteries and their sources:
     traditional and original elements; mingling of comic
     with tragic incidents
Everyman at Luminaria
Everyman performed at University of Dundee
Medieval Drama
Hanly's Medieval Drama page
REED (Records of Early English Drama)