English 622: Medieval Women Writers (3.0 hrs)
  Fall 2011
  Dr. Jo Koster

  Selected Resources  

RESERVE LIST AT DACUS         Selected Relevant Books at Dacus

Basic Medieval Resources at Winthrop:

Medieval Studies Minor Resources Page: http://www2.winthrop.edu/mdstminor/resources.htm
Dr K’s Middle English Resources Page (updated about a year ago): http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/archives/LitClasses/midengres.htm
Dr K’s Middle English Drama Page (hasn’t been updated for a while): http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/ENGL325/online.htm

Fallback Tools

New Catholic Encyclopedia (probably the best, if limited, “orthodox” information on medieval religious topics)

Middle English Dictionary (the OED on steroids for the Middle Ages and probably preferable to the OED for most Middle English language questions, though it never hurts to check the OED as well

TEAMS: Teaching the Middle Ages Series: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm"
The Luminarium: Anniina Jokinen's wonderful site: http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/

Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham): not always up to date, but good! http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook.asp  

Vulgate text of the Bible (the version the Middle Ages knew) with parallel column Douay-Rheims (Catholic) and KJV (Protestant) translations: http://www.latinvulgate.com/

Wycliffite Middle English translation of the Bible (loads quite slowly) http://wesley.nnu.edu/fileadmin/imported_site/biblical_studies/wycliffe/ and the TEAMS edition of the Prefaces:  http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/wyclif.htm

Bibliographies for Medieval Women (in general)

Bibliography on women in the middle ages and early modern period: http://womenshistory.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=womenshistory&cdn=education&tm=15&gps=689_344_1916_908&f=00&tt=14&bt=1&bts=1&st=38&zu=http%3A//academics.smcvt.edu/gdameron/women.gender.biblio.htm    

Fordham Library bibliography (NOTE: Call #s are at Fordham, not Dacus): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/womenbib.asp  

Scriptorium (McMaster U): http://mw.mcmaster.ca/scriptorium/mbiblio.html

Monica Green's Bibliography on Medieval Women, Gender, and Medicine (outstanding!): http://www.sciencia.cat/biblioteca/documents/Green_CumulativeBib_Feb2010.pdf  

Bob Stanton's Bibliography (call numbers are for Boston College): https://www2.bc.edu/~stantoro/en877/biblio.html

Brian Pavlac's Women's History Resource Site: http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/index.html

Hildegard von Bingen

Other Women’s Voices (recently updated!): http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/hildegar.html

Hildegard.org’s page (out of date): http://www.hildegard.org/

Hrotsvit(ha) (or Hrotswitha or Roswitha) of Gandersheim

Hrotsvit page, not entirely up to date: http://go.owu.edu/~o5medww/hrotsvit/

Ann Marie Olson’s site—not up to date: http://www.letu.edu/people/annieolson/projects/hrotswitha/index.html

Medieval Sourcebook at Fordham (sometimes called the Orb): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/roswitha-toc.asp

Margery Kempe

St Margaret’s Church, King’s Lynn: http://www.stmargaretskingslynn.org.uk/margery_kempe.htm

Mapping Margery Kempe Website, Holy Cross: http://college.holycross.edu/projects/kempe/

and its bibliography portal: http://college.holycross.edu/projects/kempe/text/bibliomain.htm

and the Mapping Margery Kempe’s World (East Anglia) site: http://www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/anglia/anglia.htm

Julian of Norwich

Julia Bolton Holloway’s biblio: http://www.umilta.net/bibliogr.html

Luminarium: http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/julian.htm

Other Women’s Voices: http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/julian.html#anchor433651

Osbern Bokenham

Catholic Encyclopedia: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02625c.htm

Karen Winstead’s page from Capgrave.com: http://capgrave.com/Bokenham.html

Capgrave section from Legends of Women Saints (TEAMS): http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/51sr.htm

Christine de Pizan (or Pisan)

Other Women’s Voices: http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/christin.html#anchor384566