Resources

Whether your interest is medieval manuscripts, languages, or animal lore, there’s something here for you.

Old English

• Old English Wordhord (mine) – Old English Word of the Day blog.
• Bosworth-Toller Dictionary – Look up Old English words.
• Toronto Dictionary of Old English – Much more thorough (think Oxford English Dictionary for Old English), only includes words beginning with A-I so far. Get 20 free logins per year, or if you’re affiliated with a university, check to see if the library has a subscription. You can see the Word of the Week without paying for a subscription, and you can sign up to get this in email form.
• A Thesaurus of Old English – Search for Old English words by subject rather than alphabetically.
• Old English Translator – Translate an Old English word to modern English or vice versa.
• Þæt Eald-Ænglisce Blog – Great post on Old English alphabet and pronunciation.
• Old English Poetry – Database of poetry written in Old English, glossed but not translated.
• The Riddle Ages – Provides texts, translations, and commentary of the Old English riddles in the Exeter Book.
• Beowulf Translations – Compare over 100 different translations of Beowulf, from the beginning of the 19th century to the present.
• Wikipǣdia – Wikipedia in Old English. Why not.

Middle English

• METRO – Middle English Teaching Resources Online.
• TEAMS Middle English Texts – Middle English texts available online.

Manuscripts

• British Library Digitised Manuscripts – Search the British Library’s collection of digitised manuscripts.
• The Walters Art Museum – Manuscripts digitised by The Walters Art Museum, as well as photos of metalwork, sculpture, paintings, and stained glass.
• Digital Bodleian – Digitised medieval and renaissance manuscripts at the Bodleian Library.
• J. Paul Getty Museum – A beautiful collection of medieval manuscripts online.
• Wren Digital Library – Digitised collections from the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge.
• Open Marginalis – A selection of digitized medieval manuscripts working to guide new users to open collections for casual and scholarly use.

Blogs

• The Medieval Bestiary – An amazing database of medieval animals.
• Medieval Comics: how to be human in the Middle Ages (mine) – A blog about the medieval, comics, and medieval comics, exploring what it means to be human in the Middle Ages.
• British Library Medieval Manuscripts Blog – Fun, user-friendly blog posts about medieval stuff, illustrated with beautiful images from the British Library’s collection.
• Medievalists.net – Articles and links to papers on everything medieval.
• Discarding Images – Probably my favourite medieval Tumblr, amusing medieval images that are very well cited.
• Sexy Codicology – Making codicology (the study of books as physical objects, especially manuscripts) sexy one post at a time.
• Erik Kwakkel – A medieval book historian’s Tumblr of medieval book eye candy.
• A Clerk of Oxford – A blog about the literature and history of medieval England, as well as about saints, churches, folklore, Vikings, etc.