Think of this site as the Big Book O' Medieval Stuff. It's got all your major authors and genres, plus a truly righteous links section that leads you to many more resources on medieval history, culture, and literature. A true labor of love, the site was started by a scholar of English literature, and it's constantly reviewed for accuracy. Oh, and it's 100% free. Hit it.

Your one-stop resource for all things Arthurian. It's got online texts, scholarly resources, and manuscript images.

Our friends at Harvard bring you this repository of Chaucerian literature. The good professor Larry Benson is one of the foremost Chaucerian scholars, and he's put together a wealth of helpful (and entertaining) resources for you. Thanks, man.

Are the challenges posed by reading Middle English keeping you from reading the Canterbury Tales? What about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? Well, don't fret, because once again, Harvard's got your back. This site breaks it down for you, covering a range of material from Chaucer, to the Gawain Poet, to some truly awesome medieval plays. Go play.

Sounds like a riveting movie about some kind of super secret, science-y experiment, right? Not quite. This site is all about Sir Thomas Malory and Le Morte D'Arthur. In an ambitious move, the authors of the site have put together a complete electronic edition; they've digitized both Malory's original text (the Winchester manuscript), and William Caxton's printed edition.

Curious about just how much work went into making a medieval manuscript? Look no further than this site. What a labor-intensive, back-breaking process it was. Luckily, medieval monks didn't have much else to do, so they could devote their time to recording all this great literature for posterity. Not so great for their posteriors, though… what with all those uncomfortably hard wooden benches and all.

If it's ever been your desire to impress your friends at parties by reciting (with harp) the first few lines of Beowulf in its original Old English, then we've got just the site for you. Two real, live professors from the University of Texas have put together this quick-and-dirty intro that can get you up and running in fairly short order. Hwæt?!

Ever wonder what scholars and translators have to do to medieval texts before they can be packaged into a modern edition? Wonder no longer, because this site takes you through the entire process, from transcribing the manuscript to translating it. And in case you're curious, poem the site has chosen to use as an example, The Wanderer, is an Anglo-Saxon elegy.