The School of
Historical Studies

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
• The Perseus Digital Library - very good for translations of classical texts

Medieval Resources at Leicester

• International Medieval Bibliography online
• Medieval Palaeography
• 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
• The Koran
• 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
• 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
• 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
• St Augustine's Mission to the English
• The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
• Richard III Society - (American Branch) Primary texts and sources on-line
• Holy Land of the Crusaders
• The Middle English Electronic Text Centre
• English Medieval Towns
• Medieval Manuscripts in the Schoenburg collection
• 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
• 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
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook
• Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
• Internet Women's History Sourcebook
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
• Internet Indian History Sourcebook
• Internet African History Sourcebook
• Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
• History Today - search the History Today archive with links to other sites of interest

Other Useful Sites for Medieval Historians

• British Library catalogue
• Evaluating Internet Sites for Academic Use