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The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

• Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Documents

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
"The Sourcebook is in two parts. The first is made up of fairly short classroom sized extracts, derived from public domain sources or copy-permitted translations, the second is composed of the full documents, or WWW links to the full documents...At the moment, the texts available still address elite governmental, legal, religious and economic concerns."
Edited by Paul Halsall, Fordham University

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The Labyrinth Resources for Medieval Studies

The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380)
1,000 illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts, BibliothËque Nationale

The Aquinas Translation Project
"The Aquinas Translation Project is a web-based project which seeks to provide scholars, religious and any interested individuals with translations of St. Thomas Aquinas's works not readily available in English. The co-ordinator of the Project is Stephen Loughlin, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at DeSales University, Center Valley, Pennsylvania, USA."

Digital Scriptorium
A Prototype Image Database & Visual Union Catalog of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
"...was conceived as an image database of dated and datable medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It has evolved into a general union catalog designed for the use of paleographers, codicologists, art historians, textual scholars and other researchers."
Part of UC Berkeley - Sunsite

The Ecole Initiative
"Creating a hypertext encyclopedia of early Church history on the World-Wide Web." Includes translations of Judeo-Christian and Islamic primary sources to 1500, essays on major topics and figures, iconography and religious art and a timeline with geographical cross-index.
Edited by Karen Rae Keck and Norman Hugh Redington, Athena University

Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516
"The Gazetteer is a catalogue of markets and fairs in medieval England and Wales. This is the first comprehensive national survey ... The Gazetteer is a major reference work which it is hoped will become a primary research tool for historians, historical geographers and economists. The Gazetteer will also be of use to non-professionals, for example those interested in local studies. It aims to provide as much information as possible regarding the establishment and operation of markets and fairs from c.900 onwards. The appeal of the Gazetteer will extend beyond those interested in the medieval period, as the markets and fairs established at this time formed the core of the network which survived into the sixteenth century and beyond."
Compiled by Dr. Samantha Letters, Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research

Online Medieval and Classical Library
"The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization. Douglas B. Killings is responsible for the project."
Berkeley Digital Library

The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380) (English or French)
1,000 Illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts, The Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Dscriptorium Home Page
"...devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts (D is for Digital)."
By Jesse Hurlbut

Gabriel - Gateway to Europe's National Libraries (English, French or German)

• Treasures from Europe's National Libraries

Harvard Law School Library - Digital Projects
Conversion Projects & Online Exhibits include: Nuremberg Trials Project ; Bracton Online ; Scarlet Trials ; History in Deed ; Charles Hamilton Houston ; "Sundry Good and Needful Ordinances"

• History in Deed: Medieval Society & the Law in England, 1100-1600

The Heroic Age
A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe
"...is a free online journal dedicated to the study of Northwestern Europe from the Late Roman Empire to the advent of the Norman Empire."

History
The Web site of the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
"In addition to the evaluation and cataloguing of on-line resources in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, HISTORY provides high quality information about the history profession including books, articles, theses, seminars and historians (searchable as HISTORY On-Line)."

• Higher Clergy 1066-1857 (Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae)

A History of the Crusades (etext)
"...published by the University of Wisconsin Press over a twenty year period beginning in 1969, was intended to serve as a collaborative and comprehensive treatment of the topic, ranging in time from the first 100 years of the Crusades to their ultimate impact on the histories of the Near East and Europe. The work is comprised of six volumes, each of which is included here in its entirety."
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries

Jesuits and the Sciences: 1540-1995 - (dead link)
Online exhibit from Loyola University of Chicago

Journal of Kabbalah Studies - Journal des Etudes de la Cabale - (dead link)
"...dedicated to Research in the field of Kabbalah, whether ancient and contemporary. It's content includes articles, reviews, various bibliographical documents, so as archives with previously published papers and students works (dissertations). One can find also announcements of Colloquia, Seminars, Lectures and news concerning living research."

King James Bible
"This text was originally created at the University of Pennsylvania by Robert A. Kraft, was made available to us by the Oxford Text Archive, and is presented here in a searchable SGML form by the University of Virginia."
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia

Labyrinth Latin Bookcase
An extensive collection of links to various hypertext projects and texts.
Maintained by Martin Irvine and Deborah Everhart, Georgetown University

Library of Congress Exhibitions

• Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert of Timbuktu
  "Timbuktu, Mali, is the legendary city founded as a commercial center in West Africa nine hundred years ago. Dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries, the ancient manuscripts presented in this exhibition cover every aspect of human endeavor and are indicative of the high level of civilization attained by West Africans during the Middle Ages and provide irrefutable proof of a powerful African literary tradition. Scholars in the fields of Islamic Studies and African Studies believe that analysis of these texts will cause Islamic, West African, and World History to be reevaluated."

Matrix
A Scholarly Resource for the Study of Women's Religious Communities from 400 to 1600 CE.
"...we aim to collect and make available all existing data about all professional Christian women in Europe between 500 and 1500 C.E. The project draws on both textual and material sources, primary and secondary, although its basis is unpublished archival evidence."
Sections include The Monasticon, The Chartulary, On-Line Articles, Bibliography, Glossary, and Images, Maps, Site Plans.
Edited by Lisa M. Bitel, and Katherine Gill

Medieval Forum (MF)
"...a new electronic journal for the promotion of scholarship in Medieval English Literature...MF is dedicated to providing a venue for the free exchange of ideas, a return to the original vision of a public forum informed by a collegial and cooperative spirit. Electronic format has been chosen to afford a wide circulation of articles by a broad range of contributors, particularly independent scholars, who wish to share their perspectives in a communal atmosphere.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET)

• The Unicorn Tapestries
  "Find out about the elusive, magical unicorn depicted in The Cloisters' beloved tapestries."

MuslimHeritage.com
"Through 1000 years of missing history and explore the fascinating Muslim contribution to present day Science, Technology, Arts and Civilisation...Through the advancement in Internet technologies, FSTC has the facility to allow global access to this new Muslim heritage database, including source materials, 3-D recreated models of Muslim technology and an online community of scholars and contributors."
- Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation (FSTC)

The Old English Bible Electronic Old-English Texts of Biblical Literature - (dead link)

Philadelphia Museum of Art

• Leaves of Gold: Treasures of Manuscript Illumination
  "Eighty manuscripts and cuttings from the collections of eleven Philadelphia-area institutions are assembled for the first time in this collaborative exhibition. Organized by the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold presents a wide variety of religious and secular works of art that represent the major manuscript centers of medieval and Renaissance Europe."

Project Wittenberg
"Home to works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans. Here you will find all manner of texts from short quotations to commentaries, hymns to statements of faith, theological treatises to biographies, and links to other places where words and images from the history of Lutheranism live. Project Wittenberg is the first step towards an international electronic library of Lutheranism. As such, we are always adding and changing our sites. This site contains Project Wittenberg texts in final form."
Maintained by Reverend Bob Smith, Walther Library, Concordia Theological Seminary

Renaissance Liturgical Imprints : A Census
A database of information on nearly 9000 worship books printed before 1601
(University of Michigan)

Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture
The Library of Congress' online Vatican Exhibit

Sacred-Texts
"This site is a freely available non-profit archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language."

• Texts of Judaism
  Sections include: Tanakh ; Talmud ; Haggada ; Kabbalah ; Midrash ; Ancient/Medieval ; Modern ; Links.

St. Pachomius Library
Electronic texts with English translations of the Church Fathers, the acts of the Christian martyrs, the proceedings of the Councils, the lives of the early saints

Tabularia
Sources écrites de la Normandie médiévale

U.S. Library of Congress

• Performing Arts Reading Room - Music Division
  • De Musica
    / Johannes, Afflighemensis.
    12th-century theoretical treatise. Manuscript on vellum.

Uniting the Kingdoms? (1066-1603)
"The exhibition looks at some key themes in the history of the Middle Ages. It is an introduction for readers new to the subject and a reference tool for those studying the period. It also provides images of over seventy key documents ... This exhibition looks at how the governments and people of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and of England's French territories, interacted in politics, warfare, religion, trade and everyday life."
Online exhibit from the United Kingdom Public Record Office

University of Calgary - Applied History Research Group - Multimedia History Tutorials

• The End of Europe's Middle Ages: Fourteenth & Fifteenth Centuries
  "...is designed to assist those students engaged in Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern studies who lack a background in medieval European history. Intended to provide a brief overview of the conditions at the end of Europe's Middle Ages, the tutorial is presented in a series of chapters that summarize the economic, political, religious and intellectual environment of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries."
• The Islamic World to 1600
  "a multimedia introduction to the first millennium of Islamic history, developed by the Applied History Research Group. It will outline Muslim beliefs and practices, as well as the history of the Islamic world from the 7th to the 17th centuries, including the expansion of the Islamic empires of Asia, Africa, and Europe."
• Old World Contacts
  "This tutorial focuses on the travellers of Eurasian and African history between 330 BCE and 1500 CE. It introduces students to the agents of contact: the merchants, military men, missionaries, and others who journeyed far from their homelands."

University of Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum

• Illuminating the Law: Medieval Manuscripts
  Sections include: Medieval Law: An Introduction ; The Texts ; Gallery ; Physical Descriptions.

Vatican Museums
"I hope that this new site may be a useful instrument of knowledge and give access to the complex reality of our five hundred-year- old art collections which are visited by more than three million people a year."

• Vatican Museums Online
  Sections include: Gregorian Egyptian Museum ; Gregorian Etruscan Museum ; Sistine Chapel ; Raphael's Room ; Pinacoteca ; Ethnological Missionary Museum.
  Online highlights include works by Botticelli ; Michelangelo ; Raphael ; Leonardo Da Vinci.

Bibliographies

Crusades Bibliography - (dead link)
Online Reference Book.

Academic Discussion Lists

Early-Medieval-Ireland (EMI)
"...is a moderated forum for the discussion of topics relating to the history and archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland, c.400AD - c.1200AD."

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