Discover our resources

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  The Auchinleck Manuscript

  The Auchinleck Manuscript provides a unique insight into the English language and literature that Chaucer and his generation grew up with and were influenced by

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  The Norman Blake Editions of the Canterbury Tales

  Online editions of seven manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

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  British History Online

  The digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain, from the Middle Ages to c.1900.

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  British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

  Descriptions and images of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the British Library, one of the richest collections in the world

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  British Literary Manuscripts Online, Medieval and Renaissance

  British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval & Renaissance offers students and researchers unprecedented online access to 565,000 page images and descriptions of rare manuscripts, c.1100 to 1660

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  Cause Papers in the Diocesan Courts of the Archbishopric of York, 1300-1858

  Cause papers relating to disputes over matrimony, defamation, tithes, probate, breach of faith by the clergy, and church rights heard between 1300 and 1858 in the Church Courts of the diocese of York

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  The Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

  A collection of transcriptions of 13th, 14th and 15th century texts in Middle English.

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  Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership

  Standardized, accurate XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early printed books.

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  Europa Inventa

  A database of information about several hundred medieval manuscripts held in major Australian libraries, galleries and museums

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  Geographies of Orthodoxy: Mapping Pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ, 1350-1550

  Geographies of Orthodoxy offers the scholarly community a range of electronic resources with which to enhance research on the texts of the English pseudo-Bonaventuran tradition

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  Imagining History: Perspectives on late medieval vernacular historiography

  The first large-scale collaborative investigation of the manuscripts of the Middle English Prose Brut chronicle, arguably the most prolificly disemminated secular text of the English Middle Ages.

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  Late Medieval English Scribes

  Descriptions and illustrations of the scribal handwriting of all medieval and early modern manuscripts of English works by Geoffrey Chaucer, John Trevisa, John Gower, William Langland and Thomas Hoccleve

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  Linguistic Geographies: The Gough Map of Great Britain

  An interactive, searchable edition of the Gough Map, one of the earliest maps to show Britain in a geographically-recognizable form.

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  Manuscripts of the West Midlands

  A Catalogue of Vernacular Manuscript Books of the English West Midlands, c. 1300 - c. 1475

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  Middle English Dictionary

  A comprehensive dictionary of Middle English lexicon and usage.

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  The Middle English Grammar Corpus (MEG-C)

  The Middle English Grammar Corpus (MEG-C) consists of samples of Middle English texts, transcribed from manuscript or facsimile reproduction.

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  Middle English Texts Series

  A series of Middle English texts which have not been readily available in student editions.

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  Production and Use of English Manuscripts: 1060-1220

  A catalogue of all known manuscripts which contain English dated from c. 1060 to 1220

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  The Taxatio

  The taxatio database contains the valuation, plus related details, of the English and Welsh parish churches and prebends listed in the ecclesiastical taxation assessment of 1291-2.

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