History: Medieval History

Author manuscripts primarily in Middle and Early Modern English, with some Old English materials, from the collections of the British Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the National Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the National Library of Scotland.

Searchable vocabulary of the first six centuries (600 - 1150 A.D.) of the English language,

Images of the original Paston, Cely, Plumpton, Stonor and Armburgh Papers from fifteenth century England, along with full text searchable transcripts from the printed editions, where they are available.

The full-text and images of European travel writing manuscripts from the later medieval period, with a focus on journeys to central Asia and the Far East, including accounts of travel to Mongolia, Persia, India, China and South-East Asia.
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Access to three major Middle English electronic resources, - Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.

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