The problem with Arthurian web resources is not that there are too few but that there are too many. Be careful out there. Any twelve-year-old with a good computer and some free time can make a very attractive web site about Arthurian Lit. Find out who is responsible for the site you're looking at and determine whether that person or group is reliable.
Metasites (alphabetical order)
Arthurian
Resources
By Tom Green at Exeter College, Oxford. Scroll down his Arthurian
links page to reach some useful bibliographies.
Arthuriana
Web site of the eponymous (look it up) journal. This site has bibliographies
and other pedagogical
resources.
Arthurnet
Links
Useful stuff, collected together by a reliable source (Judy Shoaf at
the University of Florida). You might be interested in subscribing to Arthurnet,
an scholarly email discussion list about all things Arthur. Please check
out the FAQ
about student research before asking a silly question that will only
embarrass us all, OK?
The Camelot
Project
From the home page: "THE CAMELOT PROJECT is designed to make available
in electronic format a database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies,
and basic information. The project, begun in 1995, is sponsored by the
University of Rochester and prepared in The Robbins Library, a branch of
Rush Rhees Library." You can also access the
TEAMS Middle English texts through this site (thanks to the NEH).
The Electronic
Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Tale
This site is so amazing that I must include it, even though we are
only spending two days on Chaucer. It's part of the Electronic
Canterbury Tales, a site by Daniel Kline at the University of Alaska-Anchorage.
The Luminarium's Anthology
of Middle English Literature
Anniina Jokinen's site includes some useful resources for the study
of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer. Just so you know,
however, I have mixed feelings about recommending the site. The editor
has worked very hard to create a beautiful and useful site. But she
has chosen to prevent people from borrowing her images--images she herself
has scanned in or borrowed from elsewhere, not original artwork.
Although she presents her site as scholarly, this is not an academic way
of looking at information, and it undercuts her credibility. Plus,
the music is very annoying. Use with these caveats.
The Labyrinth's Arthurian
Resources Page
A somewhat outdated collection of links from the Labyrinth,
source for all things medieval. They are in the midst of a major overhaul,
so try their search engine
as well as the resources page.
Medieval texts in their original languages (order of the syllabus)
Welsh Authors--Standard
Texts
Go look at Culhwch
ac Olwen--go on, I dare you! I wish I had this site when I was learning
Middle Welsh.
The Charrette Project
From the home page: "The Charrette project is a complex, scholarly,
multi-media electronic archive containing a medieval manuscript tradition--that
of Chrétien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot,
ca. 1180). It is developed and maintained by the Department of Romance
Languages, Princeton University." The site includes wonderful images of
manuscripts of Le Chevalier de la Charrette (which we will read
this term) and has an introduction
to Chrétien and to the text. It's a bit much for our purposes
(an undergraduate class, reading the poem in a Modern English translation),
but it gives you an idea of what's out there.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale