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Middle English Compendium
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- Description
- The Middle English Compendium includes 4 parts that can be searched or browsed:
- the Middle English Dictionary-an electronic version of the print MED. Its 15,000
pages offer a
comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. 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.
- a HyperBibliography of Middle English which includes all the works that are cited in
the Middle
English Dictionary. While not an exhaustive bibliography of Middle English writing, it
offers the
most comprehensive single list of ME materials presently available in electronic form.
- a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, a fully
searchable selection of 146 texts (as of 11/07), including works by
Chaucer, Gower, Langland, Lydgate, and Malory as well as many minor
figures, and a number of anonymous works. While the ultimate goal is to
include in the corpus all editions of Middle English texts used in the Middle English
Dictionary,
and the more recent scholarly editions which in some cases may have
superseded them, at present "text conversion continues at a modest rate
as time and money permit.
- Related Resources, containing links to "digitized manuscripts containing Middle
English" and online catalogs of manuscripts.
- Help
- Extensive help is available from the Middle English Compendium main page and from most search
pages.
- For help using these indexes see: How do I find an article on my
topic?
- Dates covered
- 1100-1500.
- Updating frequency
- Additional full texts will be added at an unspecified rate.
- Sources
- Middle English Dictionary and a collection of full-text Middle English texts.
- Type of coverage
- Thousands of word definitions, an extensive bibliography, and a small but growing collection of
full-text documents.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
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The Middle English Dictionary. A number of the full text works are based on print volumes
from various series,
including the Early English Text Society, available in Rutgers University Libraries.
- Producer/content provider
- University of Michigan Press Digital Projects
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- University of Michigan
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