LANGUAGE and WRITING

 

NEW LINK! Elizabethan English

Andy Holt Virtual Library - Web access for manuscript-based textual scholarship (lots of great links!)

 

Old English

Anglo-Saxon Aloud - Podcasts of Old English poetry

King Alfred's Grammar Book

Old English at the University of Virginia

Middle English

Middle English Compendium

Early Modern English

Lexicons of Early Modern English

Latin

Babylon's Latin Dictionary

Beginners' Latin and Advanced Latin - Online courses from the UK National Archives

Latin - English Dictionary

Latin Teaching Materials

Latin Word List

Modern Equivalents of Latin Place Names in Early Printed Books

ORB Latin Word List

REED Composite Latin Word List

Scots

Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue -12th to 17th century Scots

Dictionary of the Scots Language

Paleography, Handwriting and Manuscript studies

English Handwriting 1500-1700 - An online course

Medieval Manuscript Manual

Paleography: reading old handwriting 1500-1800 - From the UK National Archives

Palaeography and Manuscript Studies

Scottish Handwriting - Paleography of Scottish Documents from 1500-1750

Etymology and History of the English Language

Behind the Name - entymology and history of first names

History of the English Language Websites

Languages-on-the-Web English links

Linguistics Resources

Online Etymology Dictionary

World Wide Words