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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture With apologies for cross-posting. The University of Michigan's freely accessible 'Corpus of Middle English prose and verse' more than doubled in size over the weekend. The additions are all in full text, transcribed from modern editions. Most are also linked page-by-page to page images of the editions from which they were taken, so you can always go back to check the transcription against the actual page of the print. Most front and back matter is omitted from the transcription (in order to maximize the amount of actual Middle English that we could produce), but the entire book was scanned in most cases, and can be read online in page-image form. A brief list of the 146 books in the CME can be found here: http://www.hti.umich.edu/c/cme/browse.html And here is the blurb from the 'what's new' page: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse http://www.hti.umich.edu/c/cme/ To the 62 searchable texts of the original CME have now been added 85 additional texts, many of them among the largest and most significant monuments of Middle English, including the earlier and later versions of the Wycliffite Bible, Trevisa's and the anonymous translations of Higden's Polychronicon, Cursor Mundi, both versions of Guy of Warwick, the chronicles of Robert Mannyng and Robert of Gloucester, two versions of Mandeville's travels, Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes, the A, B, and C texts of Piers Plowman in Skeat's edition, the Pricke of Conscience, the Ormulum, and numerous saints' legends, including the Laud MS of the South English Legendary. The new texts also include the complete Chaucer Society '8-text' single-MS transcriptions of the Canterbury Tales. The bulk of these additional texts, transcribed from modern editions, were produced during 2000 thanks to a generous grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. One text of the original CME (Marion Glasscoe's edition of Julian of Norwich, obtained from the Oxford Text Archive) has been removed at the request of its present publisher. Our apologies to those who have linked to this text; they should remove their link. These texts have been in the queue to go online for five years, and their appearance coincides with some major changes to our retrieval and display system: we would appreciate hearing about any problems you may encounter using them. pfs -------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Schaffner | [log in to unmask] | http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfs/ 316 Hatcher Library N, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1205 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html