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• Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living: Essays in Memory of David Herlihy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1996), ed. by Samuel Kline Cohn and Steven Epstein, contrib. by David Herlihy, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Anthony Molho, Roberto Barducci, Gabriella Battista, Francesco Donnini, Lisa M. Bitel, Barbara H. Rosenwein, Stephen D. White, Barbara M. Kreutz, Stephen Weinberger, Bruce L. Venarde, James Buchanan Given, Maureen C. Miller, Daniel F. Callahan, George W. Dameron, Giovanni Ciappelli, Giles Constable, Lorraine Christine Attreed, María Jesús Fuente Pérez, James M. Powell, Giorgio Chittolini, and John Jeffries Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• French Chivalry: Chivalric Ideas and Practices in Mediaeval France (originally published 1940; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Sidney Painter (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Piety in Pieces: How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Kathryn M. Rudy (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization, Christian, Islamic, and Judaic, From Constantine to Dante, A. D. 325-1300 (The Story of Civilization v4; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950), by Will Durant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vassar Mediaeval Studies, by Members of the Faculty of Vassar College (New Haven et al.: Yale University Press, 1923), ed. by Christabel Forsyth Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
• Barbarian and Noble, by Marion Florence Lansing (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen: Studie Over Levens- en Gedachtenvormen der Veertiende en Vijftiende Eeuw in Frankrijk en de Nederlanden (in Dutch; 1919), by Johan Huizinga (Gutenberg text)
• Medieval Lore: An Epitome of the Science, Geography, Animal and Plant Folk-lore and Myth of the Middle Age, Being Classified Gleanings From the Encyclopedia of Bartholomew Anglicus on the Properties of Things (London: E. Stock, 1893), by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, ed. by Robert Steele, trans. by John Trevisa, contrib. by William Morris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• When Knights Were Bold (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, c1911), by Eva March Tappan (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Medieval Life and the Hundred Years War, by Albert A. Nofi and James F. Dunnigan (HTML at hundredyearswar.com)
• Patriots and Tyrants, by Marion Florence Lansing (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Medieval Number Symbolism: Its Sources, Meaning, and Influence on Thought and Expression (New York: Columbia University Press, 1938), by Vincent F. Hopper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Typischen Strassennamen im Mittelalter und ihre Beziehungen zur Kulturgeschichte, Unter Besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ostseestädte (dissertation in German; Königsberg: E. Rautenberg, 1913), by Artur Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essentials in Mediaeval History (From Charlemagne to the Close of the Fifteenth Century) (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1909), by Samuel Bannister Harding, contrib. by Albert Bushnell Hart (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Mediaeval Lore From Bartholomaeus Anglicus, by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, ed. by Robert Steele, trans. by John Trevisa, contrib. by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• Mediaeval Lore From Bartholomaeus Anglicus (King's Classics edition; London: A. Moring, 1905), by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, ed. by Robert Steele, trans. by John Trevisa, contrib. by William Morris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Mediaeval Lore From Bartholomaeus Anglicus (King's Classics edition; London: Chatto and Windus; Boston: J. W. Luce and Co., 1907), by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, ed. by Robert Steele, trans. by John Trevisa, contrib. by William Morris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Mediaeval Socialism (London: T. C. and E. C. Jack; New York, Dodge Pub. Co., ca. 1913), by Bede Jarrett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, by Henry Adams (Gutenberg text)
• Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Medieval in the Renaissance (2 volumes), by Vernon Lee
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text

• The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries, by James J. Walsh (illustrated HTML at Notre Dame)

• The Forward Movement of the Fourteenth Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1961), ed. by Francis Lee Utley (PDF at Ohio State)
• A Selection from the Prolegomena of Ibn Khaldūn, With Notes and an English-German Glossary (Semitic Study series #4, in Arabic with English and German notes; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1905), by Ibn Khaldun, ed. by Duncan Black Macdonald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• "The Gentle Voices of Teachers": Aspects of Learning in the Carolingian Age (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), ed. by Richard E. Sullivan, contrib. by John J. Contreni, Richard L. Crocker, Bernice M. Kaczynski, Lawrence Nees, Thomas F. X. Noble, and David Ganz (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity (6 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Jan M. Ziolkowski
  • Volume 1 (The Middle Ages): PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Medieval Meets Medievalism): PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 3 (The American Middle Ages): PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 4 (Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleur): PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 5 (Tumbling into the Twentieth Century): PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 6 (War and Peace, Sex and Violence): PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• 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
  • illustrated HTML at Celtic Twilight

• Le Moyen Âge (in French) (partial serial archives)

• 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)

• 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 Rochester)
• 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 Rochester)
• 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)
• Four Middle English Romances: Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir Eglamour or Artois, Sir Tryamour, ed. by Harriet Hudson (HTML at Rochester)
• The Middle English Breton Lays, ed. by Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury (HTML at Rochester)

• Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Amelia Eileen Van Vleck (HTML at UC Press)
• Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
• The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by Phoebe S. Spinrad (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Die Biographieen der Troubadours, in Provinzalischer Sprache (in Provencal with German notes; Berlin: F. Duemmler, 1878), ed. by C. A. F. Mahn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Medieval English Literature (London et al.: Oxford University Press, 1948), by W. P. Ker, contrib. by R. W. Chambers (Gutenberg text)
• The Lives of the Troubadours (London: D. Nutt, 1896), by Ida Farnell, contrib. by C. A. F. Mahn (multiple formats at archive.org)

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