Check the Supplement volume published in 2004 first for new and updated articles

The Encyclopedia offers expert answers to questions on aspects of life and culture in medieval England - art, architecture, law, literature, kings, commoners, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare, religion, and others. It takes as its scope English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century. It traces England's ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, to the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent, to the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea, and to the world of medieval Christendom. The result is a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and their key historical events, personages, and cultural contexts. Multidisciplinary articles bring together a rich variety of scholarly perspectives and individual viewpoints found in no other comparable reference work. More than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars discuss topics ranging from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture, from the Vikings to the Black Death, from musical instruments to weapons, from Beowulf to The Book of Margery Kempe, from comic tales to religious allegory, from saints to lawyers, from courtly love to prostitution, from mills to monasteries, from Alfred the Great to Geoffrey Chaucer.

Although the pages are old, there is wealth of information contained on this web site devoted to scholarly resources for Medieval Studies.  Of particular use, the What Every Medievalist Should Know pages and the ORB Text Library with transcriptions and translations of medieval texts.  Hint: sometimes you will find dead links, but often doing a web search will turn up the new urls for dead links.

Also available in print. Also worth looking at the Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing and the Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance.

Provides abstracts and citations to articles on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the period 450 to 1500 for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

Searchable database of material from the Annotated Chaucer bibliography, published annually in Studies in the age of Chaucer.

Provides abstracts and/or citation information to journal articles, book reviews and essays about women, sexuality and gender in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, from 450 C.E. to 1500 C.E. Covers materials published since 1990.

Provides citations to journal articles, books, working papers, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and other materials. Areas covered include literature, language, linguistics, film, theatre and folklore. Covers 1926-present.

Baba Brinkman is the creative force behind a book and CD interpretation of the Canterbury Tales in rap/hip-hop style.

Wendy Steiner, an English professor at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote a libretto based on the Wife of Bath's tale called The Loathly Lady.  It was scored by Paul Richards and they put on a production of the opera at Penn this past spring.