INFORMATION SHEET

NAME

Middle English Compendium

PRODUCER

University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service

DESCRIPTION

“The Middle English Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.”

The electronic MED is the core of the project and provides a searchable database of all of the original 54, 081 entries.

As of 2006, the Corpus contains 146 searchable texts in Middle English, including the Canterbury Tales.

RESOURCE TYPE

Online Medieval Dictionary with additional texts.

COVERAGE

1100-1500

UPDATES

Completed Jan 2007