Online Resources for Medieval Historians
Gateway sites
- Online resources for
Historians
-- a new 'hub-site' provided by HUMBL and the Institute of
Historical Research -- with links to Primary Sources online (all periods)
NEW - The Royal Historical Society
Bibliography
- an excellent resource for building your dissertation
and long essay bibliographies - British History Online
(at the IHR)
- you need to register, but it is free - Labyrinth
- Medieval 'hub-site' - Internet Medieval
Sourcebook
- A very helpful (and growing) set of primary source materials
and commentaries - The Online Medieval and Classical
Library
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- The Perseus Digital Library
- very good for translations of classical texts
Medieval Resources at Leicester
- International Medieval Bibliography
online - Medieval Palaeography
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- Saints Cults and aids
for studying the Middle Ages
Compiled by Graham Jones (ELH) - a very
useful gateway site forstudying saints cults, and links to a multitude of
other resources - Manuscripts and Special Collections in Leicester University Library - online catalogue : try this for dissertation ideas.
- University of Leicester Library History Resources - compiled by the History-subject librarian, Evelyn Cornell.
- Manchester Medieval Sources
Online
- full-text translations of primary sources from AD 640-1600
(also available through the University
Library home page)
Word/phrase searchable websites
- Concordance
site
allows you to search for quotations from different versions/translations
of the Bible -
The Bible
(King James Version). See also the Bible sites on Graham Jones'
pages (above). - Early Church Fathers
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- The Koran
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- Latin
dictionary
(Oxford Reference Online) - French
dictionary
(Oxford Reference Online)
Useful sites on specific medieval topics
- Fontes Anglo-Saxonici
- a register of written sources used by Anglo-Saxon writers - The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
- a site which allows searches of all known Anglo-Saxons (and lots of anonymous
ones) between c. 597 and 1042. NEW - Corpus of Early Medieval
Coins
- at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge - Anglo-Saxon
History: A Select Bibliography
- compiled by Simon Keynes, Cambridge
(up to 1998) - Anglo-Saxon Charters on
the World Wide Web
- British Academy sponsored site, key resource for
charter studies - The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon
Stone Sculpture
- with digital images from published volumes - Anglo-Saxon Index
- this site contains useful images and maps - BIBLIOTECA
AUGUSTANA
- contains texts in Latin and Old English from the classical
world to the modern period, with illustrations - History
of the Norman World
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- Dictionary
of Popes
(Oxford Reference Online) - Dictionary
of Saints
(Oxford Reference Online) - Dictionary of British History
(Oxford Reference Online) - Dictionary
of Britsh Kings and Queens
(Oxford Reference Online) - Dictionary
of Local and Family History
(Oxford Reference Online) - Historical Atlas of Europe
to AD1700
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- Manuscripts Catalogue
at the British Library
for all BL mss. or try the Catalogue
for Illuminated Manuscripts
with links to images online - Guide
to Early Church Documents
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- St Augustine's
Mission to the English
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- The
Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
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- Richard III Society
- (American Branch) Primary texts and sources on-line - Holy Land of the
Crusaders
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- The Middle
English Electronic Text Centre
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- English
Medieval Towns
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- Medieval Manuscripts
in the Schoenburg collection
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- The British
Museum
-- search the BM collections through COMPASS - Medieval Manuscripts
and Textual Culture
- a research hub collating information on manuscript
projects
Gateway sites for searching for primary sources on all periods of history
- HUMBL
- key Humanities OnLine Resource
site for all periods of History - Institute of Historical Research
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- The National Archives
plus Catalogue
- The British Library Manuscript
Catalogue
- History OnLine
- maintained at the Institute of Historical Research, London - Genesis
- Women's History resources - Internet
Islamic History Sourcebook
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- Internet Modern
History Sourcebook
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- Internet
Jewish History Sourcebook
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- Internet
Women's History Sourcebook
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- Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook
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- Internet
Indian History Sourcebook
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- Internet
African History Sourcebook
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- Internet
East Asian History Sourcebook
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- History Today - search the History Today archive with links to other sites of interest
Other Useful Sites for Medieval Historians
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