Arts and Humanities Research Council
The AHRC funds postgraduate training and research in the arts and humanities, from archaeology and English literature to design and dance. The quality and range of research supported not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK.
Department of English, University of Hull
With some 500 undergraduates and 50 postgraduates, English is one of the largest departments in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Brepols Publishers NV
The Repertorium of Middle English Prose Sermons will be published by Brepols in 2007 as Vol. 1 of SERMO, a new series of studies on patristic, medieval, and renaissance sermons and preaching.
The Cambridge Libraries
University Library, Cambridge
The UL contains one of the greatest collections of books and manuscripts in the world.
Christ's College, Cambridge
The Old Library, which is an extension by G.F. Bodley of the original sixteenth-century College Library, contains manuscripts and early printed books, most of which were given by benefactors throughout the College's history.
The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
The Parker Library, named after Archbishop Matthew Parker (1504-1575), former master of the College, is a treasure house of Mediaevel and Renaissance manuscripts and early printed books.
Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
The College has possessed a collection of books since its foundation in 1348 and has housed them in a library since 1441. The Library is a rich learning resource available to all Caians. We also welcome scholars from around the world who wish to consult our impressive collections.
The Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge
The Pepys Building houses the famous diaries that Samuel Pepys bequeathed, along with his unique library to College in 1703.
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Sidney Sussex College, founded in 1596 by the Lady Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex, is a College of the University of Cambridge. The Richard Powell Library is on the ground floor of Garden Court, and has been recently refurbished to provide space for the stock of approximately 35,000 volumes, and a computer suite.
St. John's College, Cambridge
The Library's aim is to provide a modern, efficient and welcoming Library service for all members of the College, and for all others with valid reasons to make use of the College's library collections and facilities, so enabling the College to fulfil its statutory aims.
The Cambridge Illuminations
A virtual exhibition of notable illuminated manuscripts from the Cambridge libraries.
Sermon Studies
International Medieval Sermons Studies Society
The IMSSS promotes the study of medieval sermons by organising a biennial symposium on medieval sermon studies, sponsoring annual sessions at the Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo and the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, as well as publishing the journal Medieval Sermon Studies.
Thesaurus des Sermons de Jacques de Voragine
An ongoing international collaborative project to produce an electronic edition of a popular thirteenth-century Latin sermon collection.
Middle English Texts & Manuscript Studies
Corpus of Middle English Verse and Prose
A searchable collection of Middle English texts including Forshall and Madden's edition of the Wycliffite Bible.
Manuscripts of the West Midlands
A catalogue of vernacular manuscript books of the English West Midlands c. 1300–1475. It provides detailed descriptions of over 150 manuscripts, including several sermon manuscripts, for example, Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College MS 74, London, British Library, Lansdowne 392, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 96.
Middle English Dictionary
The printed MED, completed in 2001, has been described as 'the greatest achievement in medieval scholarship in America.' Its 15,000 pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100–1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available. This electronic version of the MED preserves all the details of the print MED, but goes far beyond this, by converting its contents into an enormous database, searchable in ways impossible within any print dictionary.
The Production & Use of English Manuscripts (1060–1220)
This ongoing project aims to identify, analyse and evaluate all manuscripts containing English and written in England between 1060 and 1220. It includes a small number of Middle English sermon manuscripts.
Identifying Sources & Citations
Cursus
An online repository of medieval liturgical texts.
Fontes Anglo-Saxonici
A database of sources incorporated, quoted, translated or adapted into English and Latin texts written down in Anglo-Saxon England.
Medieval Music Database
An online repository of medieval liturgical texts and music.
The Electronic Manipulus florum
An ongoing project to produce an electronic edition of an influential fourteenth-century Latin florilegium (collection of quotations).
The Unbound Bible
A searchable Bible which allows for parallel searches of the Clementine Vulgate and the Douay-Rheims versions.
Thesaurus Exemplorum Medii Aevi (ThEMA)
A multilingual searchable database of medieval exempla.
