Helpful Websites for Lollard Studies

Metapages and Organizations

• The Bogomilism Web Page, which includes material on the links to England and Lollardy.
• The Canterbury and York Society, which has been publishing bishop's registers since 1904; membership gives a discount on their volumes.
• The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA.
• The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto.
• The Early English Text Society, publisher since 1864 of many invaluable texts for Lollard Studies; membership gives a discount on their volumes.
• The Erasmus Institute.
• European Medieval Drama, a site sponsored by the European Medieval Drama Conference and Festival, with links to over 200 websites relevant to medieval drama.
• The Geoffrey Chaucer Website from Harvard.
• The Hagiography Society.
• International Medieval Institute at the University of Leeds, which sponsors the medieval studies conference each July.
• The John Gower Society, dedicated to the poet.
• The Labyrinth, a comprehensive and fully searchable index of sources for medieval studies on the web.
• Mapping Margery Kempe: a wonderfully organized and presented site, including images, texts, contextual information, and bibliographies.
• Medieval Academy of America, which includes information about the society as well as a Conference Calendar.
• Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, which sponsors the medieval conference each May. This includes the conference program for current and past conferences.
• Mediaeval Logic and Philosophy, by Paul Spade, which contains a wonderful wealth of materials, including many downloadable texts and studies on medieval philosophy in pdf. format.
• NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources, a large and fully searchable compilation of popular and academic web resources.
• The New Chaucer Society, with news about the society as well as a collection of links for Chaucer studies.
• ORB: On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies, a growing web encyclopedia on medieval studies, including refereed articles on various topics.
• The Piers Plowman Society, which publishes the Yearbook of Langland Studies.
• The Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies in Toronto.
• Richard III Society, a well-done site on the much-maligned monarch.
• The Society for Medieval Languages and Literature.
• The Tyndale Society, devoted to the literary and ideological descendant of Wyclif.
• Voice of the Shuttle English Literature/Old and Middle English, the section from one of the most complete index of websites about the humanities.

Libraries

• Bodleian Library at Oxford
• The British Library
• Cambridge University Library
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• The European Library, the gateway to Europe's National Libraries
• Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
• The Huntington Library
• Library of Congress World Wide Web (LC Web)
• The National Archives has brought together the Historical Manuscripts Commission and the Public Record Office.
• The Newberry Library in Chicago
• The Robbins Library at the University of Rochester. The TEAMS Middle English texts series is edited out of this library; this site also has several topical bibliographies and is the home of the Camelot and Robin Hood Projects.
• Stanford University Library: Library Resources for Medieval Studies
• Warburg Institute

Journals

• Archives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Age
• Church History (published by the American Society of Church History)
• Comitatus and Viator are publications of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Early Modern Literary Studies
• The English Historical Review.
• Envoi
• Exemplaria
• Journal of the Early Book Society.
• Medium Aevum
• The Medieval Academy (which publishes Speculum)
• Traditio
• The Medieval Review
• Studies in Bibliography
• Studies in the Age of Chaucer
• Yearbook of Langland Studies

Text Projects and Databases

• The Canterbury Tales Project, the homepage of the project which is publishing collations and images of all of theCanterbury Tales manuscripts in CD-ROM format.
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library, a searchable collection of religious texts from medieval and later periods.
• The Electronic Grosseteste. This is a great site about a favorite Wycliffite auctor.
• Electronic Texts from the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries on the Internet, from Early Modern Literary Studies . This extensive list also includes links to related medieval and classical sources, and links to other sites with collections. Also on this site see a full summary of The Dialogue Concerning Heresies.
• Gallica, Bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France. The BN has a wonderful collection of images and texts to download, many of which have been out of print for centuries. Among dozens of other texts, you can download a .pdf version of the Fasciculi Zizaniorum.
• The John Foxe Project, formed to work on a new, hypertext edition of Actes and Monuments.
• The Glossarial Database of Middle English, a collection of Middle English texts tagged to enable searches by word or word group.
• John Kilcullen's site on Later Medieval Philosophy contains several later medieval philosophical texts, including an electronic version of John Wyclif's de Civili Dominio.
• The Latin Works of John Wyclif, a project at Georgetown to transcribe to the web a searchabe database of all of Wyclif's works which were edited by the Wyclif Society.
• The Literary Encyclopedia has articles on many relevant authors and texts, some with entries written by Lollard Society members.
• Medieval Sourcebook, a vast and growing collection of primary texts (some searchable, some to link to) from the late classical period to the Reformation. The site also includes secondary source texts and images.
• New Advent Catholic Supersite, an extensive database of translated patristic, medieval, and later texts. Also includes the on-line "Catholic Encyclopedia."
• The Online Chaucer Bibliography
• The Online Medieval and Classical Library from Berkeley.
• Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, a project to edit hypertext versions of Piers Plowman.
• The Protestant Reformation, a collection of British and continental texts.
• TEAMS Middle English Texts On Line, searchable versions of many of the texts printed in the Middle English texts series. Links to texts on this database can be found on our Bibliography of Primary Sources.
• Thomas Instituut te Utrecht, a wonderful site on Aquinas, including a Javascript search engine of his complete works.
• Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse at the University of Michigan, which contains on-line versions of the texts used for the Middle English Dictionary. This is a public-access part of the The Middle English Compendium at the University of Michigan. Links to texts on this database can be found on our Bibliography of Primary Sources.
• The University of Virginia Electronic Text Library is a large collection of on-line texts. Middle English texts on-line include all of Chaucer, Langland, and Gower; Latin texts include Boethius, Ovid, and Virgil. Links to texts on this database can be found on our Bibliography of Primary Sources.
• Virtual Norfolk. This site has, among many other documents, the complete, translated text of the 1428-31 Norwich heresy trials. Heresy isn't the only topic of the site; its many documents (and discussions of them, with bibliography) cover much of East Anglian late medieval religious culture, from wills to letters to plays. Sections of the site cover material through the 19th century. An outstanding example of what the web can do.

Lollardy on the Web

• A Geographical map of Lollard Influence in England and Scotland.
• John Wyclif, from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
• Lollards, also from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
• John Wycliffe and the Lollards, from the Geoffrey Chaucer Website.
• John Wyclif, by Alessandro Conti, the entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. This provides a good, brief introduction to his thought.