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ORB Online Encyclopedia Late Medieval England A Guide to Online Resources Section Editor: A. Compton Reeves, Professor of History, Ohio University Compton Reeves can be reached at profcr@kachina.net. Professor Reeves will be happy to work with potential contributors on paper proposals. Routine site maintenance is provided by Laura Blanchard, lblancha@pobox.upenn.edu. Please contact Blanchard with links to resouces of interest to teachers and students of later medieval England. Contents of this Section: ORB Encyclopedia--Original Essays Medieval England online textbook by Stephen Muhlberger, Nipissing University Margery Kempe, a lecture by Lynn Nelson, University of Kansas Primary Sources--Literature, chronicles, other texts Literature (see also Chaucer Resources) Humanities Text Initiative, Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. At the University of Michigan, this comprises the largest collection of texts in Middle English on the World Wide Web. Online Medieval and Classical Library, maintained by Doug Killings and hosted by the Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite. Includes works by Chaucer and Gower, as well as Orioso and Tasso. TEAMS Texts, maintained at the University of Rochester Library. These Arthurian texts are derived from editions published by the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS). University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center, offering 26 full-text Middle English works, including the York and Towneley Plays. Chronicles and Other Primary Sources Anonymous, the Ballad of Bosworth Ffeilde. Sixteenth-century poem possibly based on eyewitness account. From the Hales & Furnivall edition based on Bishop Percy's Folio. Keyboarding and hypertext markup by Judie C. Gall. Anonymous, Croyland Chronicle. A portion of the Second Continuation, and the full text of the Third and Fourth Continuations. Covers all entries for the period 1453-1486. Important primary source for the study of the Wars of the Roses and especially the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III. Anonymous, Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV in England and the Finall Recouerye of His Kingdomes from Henry VI. A.D. M.CCCC.LXXI, based on the 1838 John Bruce edition. Keyboarding and hypertext markup by Judie C. Gall. Anonymous, The Edward IV Roll -- Free Library of Philadelphia Ms. Lewis E201, a Chronicle of the World from the Creation to Woden, with a Genealory of King Edward IV of England. England, ca. 1461. Online facsimile with commentary. Various Authors, Battle of Bosworth Field, contemporary and Tudor accounts. Reprinted with permission from Michael Bennett, The Battle of Bosworth,(1985; rev. 1993, Alan Sutton and St. Martin's Press). Keyboarding and hypertext markup by Judie C. Gall. Various Authors, Source Documents Relating to the Wars of Edward III. Excerpts from Clifford J. Rogers (ed.), The Wars of Edward III: Sources and Interpretations (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1999), by permission of the editor. Brews, Margery. Two Fifteenth-Century Valentines (to John Paston), ed. Paul Hyams. The Cely Papers, 1475-1488 letters from a fifteenth-century merchant family. DeCommynes, Philippe, Memoirs. Translated and with an introduction by Michael Jones. Froissart's Chronicles Lord Berners' Translation, from University of Virginia Text Center. Steve Muhlberger's Tales from Froissart page. Holinshed's Chronicles, in digital facsimile from the University of Pennsylvania Library's Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image. Site uses Flash. Images are large, ca. 250KB each. Many other Renaissance works related to Shakespeare's history plays at the same location. Holinshed's Chronicles, e-text edition covering the reigns of Edward IV (partial), Edward V, Richard III. More, Thomas, The History of King Richard the Third. This hypertext edition was produced by Richard Bear from a facsimile of the Rastell edition, and is mounted on the University of Oregon server. (180KB file) Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, The Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York: The Wardrobe Accounts of Edward IV.Transcription of 1830 edition. A lengthy series of documents, consisting of 24 interlinked files, ranging in size from 22KB to 40 KB. Excerpts from the Scrope-Grosvenor Trial of 1390 from the Harvard University Chaucer web site. Polydore Vergil, Anglica Historia, Books 23-25. History of the deposition of Edward V and the reign of Richard III by humanist historian Polydore Vergil. One of the classic traditionalist sources. HTML markup by Jeff Wheeler, San Jose State University. (Large file, ca. 109KB, original spelling, from 1846 J.B. Nichols edition). Also: Jeff Wheeler's essay on Vergil, "The Color of Honesty." John Warkworth, DD. A Chronicle of the First Thirteen Years of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth. Contemporary chronicle with Lancastrian leanings. Bibliographies Late Medieval England, A.C. Reeves (reading list for course on late medieval England) Fifteenth Century Marriage: Primary Souces, annotated bibliography, Sharon D. Michalove, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Fifteenth Century Marriage: Secondary Sources, annotated bibliography, Sharon D. Michalove, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bibliography on Richard III. The "Further Reading" section of A. J. Pollard's Richard III and the Princes in the Tower, reprinted online by permission of the author. Resources for Learning/Teaching Learning Resources for Richard III and the Wars of the Roses Curricula, review article, preliminary filmography, links to other online resources. Lollard Studies Mapping Margery Kempe, interdisciplinary teaching tool created by Sarah Stanbury and Virginia Raguin, Holy Cross College Engelonde: Resources for Fourteenth Century English Studies, supporting students of Linda Ehrsam Voigts, University of Missouri-Kansas City. The Chaucer Studio, audio recordings. The Black Death, course syllabus by David Herlihy, Harvard University, edited and with an introduction by Charles T. Wood, Dartmouth College. Other Online Resources Netserf's page of medieval drama resources, primarily late medieval English. English local history images by David Postle, University of Leicester, including many late medieval sites. Leaves of Gold: Treasures of Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections. Online version of 2001 exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Frist Gallery (Nashville), which includes several later medieval English manuscripts.

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