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• Structural Arithmetic Metaphor in the Oxford "Roland" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Eleanor Webster Bulatkin (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• The Quest of the Holy Grail (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1913), by Jessie L. Weston (multiple formats at archive.org)
• From Ritual to Romance, by Jessie L. Weston
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Poem as Green Girdle: Commercium in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by R. A. Shoaf (frame-dependent HTML at ufl.edu)

• The Tristan Legend: A Study in Sources (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1969), by Sigmund Eisner (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

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• Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Aldo D. Scaglione (HTML at UC Press)
• Ritterzeit und Ritterwesen (2 volumes in German; Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1823), by Johann Gustav Büsching
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at Google
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• The Two Noble Kinsmen, by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare (multiple editions)
• Ivanhoe (libretto, some music, and commentary), by Julian Sturgis and Arthur Sullivan (multimedia at Gilbert and Sullivan Archive)

• The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc, by Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan de Galba, trans. by Robert S. Rudder (Gutenberg text)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain (multiple editions)
• The Once and Future King (c1958), by T. H. White (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Black Arrow, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • HTML at kellscraft.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1923), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Knight of St. John: A Romance (3 volumes; London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, 1817), by Anna Maria Porter
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Clemence Housman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Musta Nuoli (The Black Arrow in Finnish; c1913), by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
• Sir Cleges; Sir Libeaus Desconus: Two Old English Metrical Romances Rendered Into Prose (London: D. Nutt, 1902), trans. by Jessie L. Weston, illust. by Caroline Watts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Ivanhoe, by Walter Scott
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania

• The Gauntlet of Dunmore (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by Hawthorne Daniel, illust. by Henry C. Pitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Honor of Dunmore (New York: Macmillan, 1929), by Hawthorne Daniel, illust. by Henry C. Pitz
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Otto of the Silver Hand (illustrated; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1914), by Howard Pyle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Gold of Fairnilee, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• In the Court of King Arthur (1918), by Samuel E. Lowe, illust. by Neil O'Keeffe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Stories from the Faerie Queene, by Mary Macleod, contrib. by Edmund Spenser and John W. Hales, illust. by Arthur G. Walker (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Knight's Castle (author died in 1964; c1956), by Edward Eager (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• A Knight of the White Cross, by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg text)
• The White Dove: A Tale (Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, n.d.), by Christoph von Schmid (page images at ufl.edu)

• King Arthur's Knights: The Tales Retold for Boys and Girls, by Henry Gilbert, illust. by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Queen Summer: or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose, by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ami and Amile: A Medieval Tale of Friendship (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c1996), trans. by Samuel N. Rosenberg and Samuel Danon, contrib. by David Konstan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Torrent of Portyngale (EETS extra series #51; London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trubner, and Co., 1887), ed. by E. Adam (Gutenberg text)
• Idylls of the King, by Alfred Lord Tennyson (Gutenberg text)
• Lancelot, or, The Knight of the Cart, by Chrétien de Troyes, trans. by William Wistar Comfort (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Morien, ed. by Jessie L. Weston (PDF at In Parentheses)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon (HTML at Michigan)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (with modern prose translation), ed. by Karen Arthur and Ian Lancashire (HTML at Toronto)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. by William Allan Neilson (PDF at In Parentheses)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. by Jessie L. Weston (PDF at In Parentheses)
• Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace, ed. by Edward E. Foster (HTML at metseditions.org)
• Op. I. (Oxford: B. H. Blackwell (Adventurers All Series), 1916), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales, ed. by Thomas Hahn (HTML at metseditions.org)
• Four Middle English Romances: Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir Eglamour or Artois, Sir Tryamour, ed. by Harriet Hudson (HTML at metseditions.org)
• The Middle English Breton Lays, ed. by Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury (HTML at metseditions.org)
• Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain, Reproduced in Facsimile From the Unique Ms. Cotton Nero A.x in the British Museum (EETS original series #162; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Pres, 1923), ed. by Israel Gollancz (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100-1343 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by John B. Freed (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Note su la Fortuna di Luciano nel Rinascimento: Le Versioni e i Dialoghi Satirici di Erasmo da Rotterdam e di Ulrico Hutten (in Italian; Milan: C. Signorelli, ca. 1914), by Natale Caccia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

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