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Medieval History

General Sites | Manuscripts | Early & Medieval Christianity | Literary Works

General Medieval Sites

• Labyrinth
  The Labyrinth is a global information network providing free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University.
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
  Collection of primary and some secondary sources dealing with all aspects of Western (including the Middle East) medieval history. Also see his The Byzantine Studies Page . Both are part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project.
• NetSERF
  Index to sources dealing with medieval history sponsored by the history department at Catholic University.
• On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies
  "The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World-Wide Web." Included is the ORB Encyclopedia and the ORB Textbook Library

Manuscripts

• Aberdeen Bestiary Project
  Digitized version of the 12th century illuminated manuscript housed in Aberdeen University Library. See also the illustrations from Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.
• The Age of King Charles V
  1000 illuminations from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Includes Froissart's Chronicles and the Breviary of Martin of Aragon.
• Catalonian Manuscripts
  Collection of digitized Catalonian manuscripts and documents dating from the 11th to 15th centuries from Bancroft Library collection at the Unviersity of California, Berkeley.
• The Charrette Project
  Linked transcriptions of four manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette.
• Digital Scriptorium
  "The Digital Scriptorium 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."
• DScriptorium
  "DScriptorium is devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts." Maintained at Brigham Young University.
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
  Digitized collections of manuscripts including Celtic manuscripts dating from the 9th to 19th centuries and medieval manuscripts dating from the 9th to 16th centuries. Also see the Bodleian's Western Manuscripts to c. 1500 site.
• Enluminures
  Searchable database of more than 14,000 images of manuscript illuminations and decorative elements preserved in France.
• Late Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina
  Collection of 27 late medieval manuscripts including the Elsassiche Werkstatt von 1418.
• Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
  Digitized collection from the Koninklije Bibliotheek in the Netherlands. Also see the Copenhagens' Royal Library collection of digitized manuscripts Elektra.

Early and Medieval Christianity

• Amiens Cathedral
  Multimedia project from the Art History department at Columbia University. For more examples of medieval art and architecture in France and England see Images of Medieval Art and Architecture site at Pitt and Exeter Cathedral Keystones & Carvings.
• Early Church Fathers
  The Early Church Fathers is a 38-volume collection of writings from the first 800 years of the Church. This collection is divided into three series, Ante-Nicene (ANF), Nicene and Post-Nicene Series I (NPNF1), and Nicene and Post-Nicene Series II (NPNF2)." Also see the Ecole Initiative, a hypertext encyclopedia of the early church.
• Guide to Early Church Documents
  This site "contains pointers to Internet-accessible files relating to the early church, including canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and other historical texts relevant to church history." See also Christian Origins, section of the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.
• Hagiography
  Essays, translations of primary sources and links dealing with hagiography created by Thomas Head of Hunter College. Part of the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies. See also the Saints Lives section of the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
• Matrix
  The project "goal is to document the participation of Christian women in the religion and society of medieval Europe. In particular, we aim to collect and make available all existing data about all professional Christian women in Europe between 500 and 1500 C.E." Also see Medieval Women: An Interactive Exploration.

Literary Works

• The Camelot Project
  "The Camelot Project is designed to make available in electronic format a database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information." Sponsored by the University of Rochester. Also see their Robin Hood Project.
• Chaucer Metapage
  Compilation of sites dealing with Chaucer and his works. Includes audio files of scholars reading Chaucer's works. Also see the Chaucer Bibliography Online.
• Decameron Web
  "The guiding question of our project is how contemporary informational technology can facilitate, enhance and innovate the complex cognitive and learning activities involved in reading a late medieval literary text like Boccaccio's Decameron." Site includes sections on history, society, arts, religion, etc. Based at Brown University.
• Digital Dante
  "The ILTweb Digital Dante Project is a long-term effort of the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University to prototype and develop an online, multimedia Dante-related academic resource combining traditional elements of scholarly research with new communication and presentation possibilities enabled by networked digital technology." See also the following Dante sites: Renaissance Dante in Print and Dartmouth Dante Project.
• Saganet: Icelandic Medieval Literature
  Digitized versions of old Icelandic literature and critical works published prior to 1900.

Image: Detail from The de Brailes Hours.