Links

My handouts

• Renaissance
• King Lear
• Volpone
• Metaphysicals and Cavaliers
• Milton
• 18th century
• Pope
• Aphra Behn and Oroonoko
• Paper Topics
  • Paper 1
  • Paper 2

General/ Meta sites

• Norton Topics Online - W. W. Norton
• English Literature on the Web - Mitsuharu Matsuoka
• Shakespeare Related Journals - Terry A. Gray
• Voice of The Shuttle - Alan Liu
• History of the English Language
• Link to Nichole Esmon's Presentation

Medieval

• Maps of Medieval Britain
• Medieval Art and Architecture in Britain
  • Anglo-saxon architecture
  • early Norman architecture (1090)
  • High Gothic architecture (ca 1500)
• Netserf's Medieval Resources
• Voice of the Shuttle Medieval Pages
• the Labyrynth--med. resources
• Medieval Feminist Index (searchable bibliography)
• Map of England after 1066
• Medieval Timeline

Anglo-Saxons (Beowulf, Wanderer, Dream of the Rood)

• Sutton Hoo Archeological Site (7th century Anglo-saxon site)
  • Sutton Hoo excavations and treasures
• Celts & Anglosaxons page
• Anglo-Saxon resource page
• Anglo-saxons Net
• Anglo-Saxons Net--Wanderer page
• The Wanderer Project--contains original (with glossary), manuscript images, 3 translations
• Dream of the Rood (article; images; anglo-saxon, runes, and modern english texts)
• Beowulf links
• Beowulf on Steorarume (Beowulf in Cyberspace)
• Audio Selections from Beowulf (U. VA)
• Old English Conversational Phrase book
• WordHord (Old English versions of Computer-ese)
• Map of Roman Britain
• Map of 8th Century England
• Lynn H. Nelson's Medieval Lectures (U. Kansas)
• Medieval English Towns (interactive)
• Lindisfarne abbey (7th century Northumbrian abbey)
  • Lindisfarne Gospels (Bishop Eadfrith, ca.700)

Irish Myths

• Celtic Cycles and the Ulaid Cycle (Read especially the Curse of Macha)
• Encylopedia: Irish Mythology and related myths
• Eight Images from the Lindisfarne Gospels
• Fact-Index's Irish Mythology Page
• Irish Tale: The Cattle Raid of the Cooley (in English and Irish)
• Irish Literary Sources and Resources
• Newgrange, an early Irish burial mound--thought to be home of the Sidhe or immortals
• Ogham Stone, an early Irish marker or standing stone
  • Photos of the stone
• An article on ancient Irish Literature

Sir Gawain

• Gawain in the Original (with audio)
• More Arthurian Legend Stuff
• Gawain Page (many links)
• Middle English Prose & Verse bibliography
• More Gawain Stuff
• Even More Gawain Stuff
• 14th Century Britain and Ireland
• Saturnalia (ancient Christmas)
  • a little history--and a recipe
  • How-to guide

Chaucer

• Harvard's Chaucer Pages
• Cantebury Tales (Downloadable text with modern version)
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Chaucer Context, Background, and Texts (including modern)
• Chaucer-related links
• Luminarium's Essays & Articles
• Audio versions of Chaucer--various
• Audio versions of Chaucer-- various (Stanford)
• Classic Text: Images from various editions of Chaucer
• 14th Century Britain and Ireland

Margery Kempe

• Luminarium page on Kempe
• Background on Kempe (Jim Jones, West Chester U. of Pennsylvania)
• Mapping Margery Kempe (interactive site by College of the Holy Cross)
• Interactive Town of Lynn (Margery's home town) site
• Rules for Anchoresses (Norton)

Noah's Flood

• Medieval Mystery plays
• The Chester Noah
• Chester Mystery plays (modern production) official site

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Everyman

• Dr. Beth Jensen's Lecture of Everyman (Georgia Perimeter College)
• Professor Don King's Lecture on Everyman (Montreat College)
• The Dance of Death (Woodcut by Hans Holbein)
• Text of Everyman in the original English
• Photos and a Video of a performance by the Miracle Players
• Morality Plays
• Morality plays as ancestors of mature drama
• Five stages of grief
• The Plague in medieval art

Renaissance Topics

Renaissance Links

• Renaissance Interactive
• Renaissance Timelines
• Reformation-Restoration Timeline
• Luminarium's 16th Century Literature
• Luminarium's Early 17th c. literature
• Norton's 16th century pages
• Norton's 17th century pages
• A Brief History of Patronage
• Early 17th c. literature

Renaissance Patronage

• Florimène at the Court of Charles I: the Court Masque - UWashington

Medieval and Renaissance Women

• Femina: Medieval Women's Index
• Education of Girls during Shakespeare's Time
• Life of Women in Tudor England
• Women's Rights in 17th century England
• Education of Women: Norton
• Gallery of Images: Women with Books
• Norton: Women's Public Speech

Renaissance Humanism & Music

• Humanism
• English Renaissance MIDIs
• Classical MIDI : Renaissance - Raborn & Winters
• Early Music Midi Files - Curtis Clark
• Mulliner Book MIDI files - David Cooke
• English Baroque MIDI files - David Cooke
• Classical MIDI Archive: Composers born before the 17th century - Pierre R. Schwob
• English Baroque music (midis)

Baroque Art

• Selected Poetry of Richard Crashaw
• Bernini's Ecstacy of St. Teresa
• Baroque Art Links
• Art History Resources: Baroque - Chris Witcombe
• Renaissance and Baroque Architecture - UVA
• Image Gallery

Humor: 

• Shakespearean Insult Generator

Dress, Food, Everyday Life

• History of Costume
• Tudor Dress: A Portfolio of Images
• Virtual Renaissance Town
• Illustrated: Renaissance Backgrounds

The Protestant Reformation

• Discovery and Reformation
• George Herbert Page
• John Donne page

Renaissance Science and Medicine

• Renaissance Science and Medicine
• Giambattista della Porta's "Natural Magick", 1584
• 16th Century Science - UTexas Students
• The Medieval Universe - UVictoria
• Renaissance Science and Health - Maggie Pierce Secara
• The Galileo Project - Rice University
• Elizabethan Cosmology - Bruce P. Hayden
• Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist - Museum of Science, Boston
• Alchemy Virtual Library
• Universities in the Renaissance - University of Northern British Columbia
• Renaissance Science
• 17th c. prose style
• Sir Francis Bacon

Renaissance Authors

Hoby

• Renaissance Interactive*
• Humanism
• Court Life and Fashion
• Florime at the Court of Charles I -- The Court Masque
• Background to the Italian Renaissance

Spenser

• Study guide
• Summary of Faerie Queene
• Sparknotes Spenser page
• Premium Study Guide (more available on subscription basis)

Milton

• Milton at Luminarium
• Milton timeline
• Milton-l Home page
• Milton Reading Room (text with annotations)
• The Milton Page
• Paraidse Lost Study Guide
• Paradise Lost Handout

Shakespeare links

general

• Folger Shakespeare Library
• Shakespeare & the Internet
• ArdenNet (online scholarship page)
• The Virtual Globe
• Bunch of Shakespeare links
• The Shakespeare High Virtual Classroom
• Bardweb
• Bedford St. Martin Links Page
• More Links

Authorship Links

• Shakespeare Fellowships Shakespeare Authorship site
• The Shakespeare Mystery (authorship question)
• Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare page
• Shake-n-Bacon (Bacon wrote Shakespeare page)

Texts

• Shakespeare Search Engine (search text of all works)

Performance Issues

• Shakespeare's globe (staging & performance links)
• Staging at the Globe

Teaching sites

• PBS Teacher site
• TeachersFirst site

Restoration and 18th Century

• Interactive Chronology of 18th c. 
• 17th-18th c. English Culture
• 18th Bibliography (background infor)
• 18th c. Studies
• Good Essay on 18th c. Style and social structure
• 18th C. Lit & Pope
• Illustrations from first Edition
• Spiro Architecture slide library
• Stowe Landscape Garden (interactive tour)