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Middle English Literature
Below are sites that offer background, criticism, examinations, and online modern English translations of texts in Middle English as well as original ME texts.
Who's Who in Medieval History: Geoffrey Chaucer
From your About.com Guide, an extensive, multi-page index of useful sites offering criticism, online works, historical background and other Chaucerian topics, plus suggested reading.
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
Searchable collection of works at the Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan.
The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
This searchable site by Hoyt N. Duggan includes manuscript facsimiles and aims to create a multi-level, hyper-textually linked electronic archive of Piers Plowman.
The University of Virginia's Middle English Collection
Primarily literature and poetry. Half of this is for UVa users only, but there are still many titles available to the general public.