INTERNET SOURCES FOR MEDIEVALISTS.
Compiled by Lynette K. Edsall, April 1996; Revised September, 1998.
GENERAL INFORMATION, SOME WITH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:
The Celts
- Celts and Saxons homepage.
http://www.primenet.com/~lconley/bookmarks.html
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- A Celtic Studies
Bibliography from the Celtic Studies Association of North America
http://www2.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/celtic/csanabib.html
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Rome and Late Antiquity
- Romarch: Roman art and
archaeology
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfoss/ROMARCH.html
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- Extensive index of sites
starting in antiquity.
http://www.teleport.com/~arden/antiquity.htm
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- Medieval Scandinavia and
Anglo-Saxon England sources
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~layher1/medscan.html
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- Old English Pages: Old
English and Anglo-Saxon Resources
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/oe/old_english.html
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- Resources
for the study of Beowulf
http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/beowulf/beowulf.html
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Anglo-Saxons and Vikings
- The World of the Vikings
http://www.pastforward.co.uk/vikings/index.html
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- Elvegrimarne - The Association for
Viking Age Culture
http://hem.passagen.se/da7id/index.htm
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- The Briese-Bane Vikings
Information Centre
http://www.powerup.com.au/~rhayes/vikingb/vikingsh.htm
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- The Jorvik Viking Center at York
http://www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/
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- A homepage devoted to things
Viking.
http://www.spoon.demon.co.uk/vikes/index.htm
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- Viking Heritage - Viking server & database
http://ottes.got.kth.se/
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- RUNES - The Viking Oracle
http://www.ipcc.com/market/newage/runes.htm
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- Runic inscriptions database
http://gonzo.hd.uib.no/NCCH-docs/Runes.html
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The Middle Ages
- Laws of William the
Conquerer.
gopher://wiretap.spies.com:70/00/Gov/Other/william.law
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- The Labyrinth
contains bibliographies, journals, teaching materials
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html
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- The Camelot Project:
Arthurian texts, bibliographies etc.
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm
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- Kalamazoo - The Medieval Institute at
Western Michigan University
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/
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- The Haskins Society for Viking,
Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin History
http://www1.minn.net/~rob/Haskins/
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- The Middle Ages Trust
http://members.aol.com/tmatrust/home.html
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- Amsterdam Society for Medieval Studies
http://www.3wis.nl/paul/medsource.html
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- The Medieval Center -
Denmark
http://www.middelaldercentret.dk/english/us_home.htm
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- HUMBUL Gateway - the HUManities BULletin
board
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~humbul/
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- Scottish History Magazine
http://www.clan.com/history/
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- The Museum of London Archaeology Service
http://www.molas.org.uk/
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- The Institute of Historical Research
http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/
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- Medieval
and Renaissance History Links from NYU
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/history/internet/geograph/europe/medieval/
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- NetSerf from Catholic
University of America
http://www.cua.edu/www/hist/netserf/home.htm
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- Internet Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
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- Guide to
Medieval resources on the Net
http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~killings/Medieval/libellum.html
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- Medieval Academy of America.
http://www.georgetown.edu:80/MedievalAcademy/
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- ORB: On-line Text for Medieval Studies
http://orb.rhodes.edu/
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- Literature from all ages available for
downloading
http://www.promo.net/pg/
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- Middle English texts at
University of Virginia
http://etext.virginia.edu/me.browse.html
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- Luminarium - Anthology of Middle English
Literature
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/
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- The Bayeux Tapestry, searchable by parts.
http://blah.bsuvc.bsu.edu/bt
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- University of Oxford Bodleian Library-medieval images.
http://rsl.ox.ac.uk/
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- WebLouvre.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/
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- Texts and Documents: Europe
http://history.hanover.edu/europe.htm
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- The Magna Carta...searchable
by article!
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~rodmur/docs/Magna.html
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- DScriptorium: medieval
manuscripts digitized
http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/
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- Reference Materials for
Iberian History
http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/kansas/aarhms/refshelf.html
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- Plague and Public
Health in pre-Renaissance Europe
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/intro.html
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- Voice of the Shuttle:
English literature
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-med.html
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- Guide to early
church documents.
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html
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- Gregorian Chant Homepage
http://members.aol.com/tmatrust/home.html
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- Searchable Latin Vulgate Bible
http://estragon.uchicago.edu/Bibles/
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- Medieval studies
at Stanford with links to other locations.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/medieval/medieval.html
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- A course syllabus
taught by Deb Everhart at Georgetown. Includes a suggested readings list.
http://www.georgetown.edu/everhart/medieval_women/women.html
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- School of History at Bangor, Wales
Contains essay topics, bibliographies and tutorial topics.
http://www.history.bangor.ac.uk
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- Medieval Woman Homepage...still
under construction.
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~mmedia/mw2.htm
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- List of medieval academic
discussion groups.
http://www.towson.edu/~duncan/acalists.html
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SITES DEALING PRIMARILY WITH BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
- Anglo-Saxon History: A
Select Bibliography
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/rawl/keynes1/home.htm
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- Women
Writers of the Middle Ages. Contains teaching materials as well as bibliography.
http://www.millersv.edu/~english/homepage/duncan/medfem/medfem.html
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- Bibliography of
english translations from medieval sources from 1968-1991.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/medieval/engtrans.html
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- Medieval cultural
studies bibliography from a '95 conference at Georgetown.
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/conf/cs95/medbib.html
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- Medieval cookbooks bibliography.
http://paul.spu.edu/~kst/bib/feast2.txt
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- Bibliography of cookbooks and feast
books.
http://paul.spu.edu/~kst/bib/feast.txt
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- Medieval and Renaissance Marriage
customs bibliography.
http://paul.spu.edu/~kst/bib/articles.txt
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- Bibliography of general history
covering most everything.
http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~ashoaf/bib.html
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- An urban history
bibliography.
http://www.uoguelph.ca/history/urban/citybiboutline.html
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- Medieval World
Bibliographies. Features scholarly bibs as well as bibs for children and young adults.
http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~etsulliv/medieval.html
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LIBRARIES:
- Library of Congress searchable
index
http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html
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- Library of
Congress via University of Toronto: often S-L-O-W!
http://utcat.library.utoronto.ca:8002/db/LCMARC/numbers.html
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- Libraries on the Web...access
libraries all over the world.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/
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- WWW Virtual
Library. Index of all subjects.
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html
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- On-Line
catalogs with web interfaces.
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/alcuin/wwwed-catalogs.html
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- Ancient and Medieval reading
room with serchable index.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/manc/
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- Hill Monastic Library. Info on how
to use the library at St. John's in Collegeville, MN
http://www.csbsju.edu/hmml/index.html
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- Online Medieval and Classical Library
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
SEARCH ENGINES:
- MetaCrawler. Searches all the engines and
returns top matches.
http://www.metacrawler.com/
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- Alta Vista
http://www.altavista.digital.com/
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- Deja News
http://www.dejanews.com/
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- Excite
http://www.excite.com/
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- Lycos
http://www.lycos.com/
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- Webcrawler
http://webcrawler.com/
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- YAHOO
http://www.yahoo.com/
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JUST FOR FUN:
- Not medieval, but it contains interesting information about Tyburn Hill in London.
http://www.columbia.edu/~zll1/tyburn.html
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- Castles on the Web
http://fox.nstn.ca/~tmonk/castle/castle.html
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- What a comprehensives
reading list might look like from someone at NYU who took them.
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/history/internet/compexam.html
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- Shakespearian Insult
Generator. Each time its accessed, it will give you a new insult. Not really medieval but
fun anyway! :+)
http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/bard.pl
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- Two "medieval" guys who dispense
humor.
http://jvj.com/bakerbg.html
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- List of prices of
medieval items compiled from several sources.
http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/~mcarthur/medieval.html
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- Feudal
Terms
http://www.msstate.edu:80/Archives/History/scholarship/feudal.terms
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- 100 Years War
http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/topics/100yw/100yw.html
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- Medieval and Renaissance Brewing
Homepage.
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/brewing.html
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- Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html
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- The British Heraldic Archive.
http://www.kwtelecom.com/heraldry/
- My homepage has
direct links to many of the sites ( and I am always adding more) on these pages. Feel free
to use it if you like.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~camelot/homepage.html