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Where to start:

WEMSK – What Every Medievalist Should Know - http://www.the-orb.net/wemsk/wemskmenu.html
Intended for the beginning to semi-advanced graduate student, this website serves to orientate students to various subject areas within medieval studies. Contains information about a range of topics, and is an indispensable guide for any student of medieval studies.



General:

The British Academy - directory of on-line resources for medieval studies: http://www.britac.ac.uk/portal/bysection.asp?section=H8

The ORB – Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies - http://www.the-orb.net/
Primary and secondary-source material, for classroom use, including an Encyclopedia with entries covering a broad geographical and chronological range. Also contains links of interest to non-specialists.

The Labyrinth - http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
Labyrinth medieval studies website, organized by Georgetown University. Information about a range of medieval topics, with links to primary and secondary texts, visual sources (art, architectural, archaeological, maps), audio material, glossaries, bibliographies, organisations and discussion lists.

International Medieval Bibliography as part of Brepolis.net - http://www.brepolis.net/
Contains the leading interdisciplinary bibliography of the Middle Ages, with over 300,000 records of publications dating from 1967 to the present. For further details refer to http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imb/

History Online - http://www.history.ac.uk/
Guide to a range of online resources including theses in progress and completed since 1995.

Ménestrel - http://www.menestrel.fr/
Médiévistes sur l'internet sources travaux références en ligne. Online portal with a main focus on the French speaking world.

NetSerf - http://www.netserf.org/
A major resource for medieval studies online, with links to medieval texts, images and music, and current research.

Humbul Humanities Hub - Now merged with Artifact to form Intute: arts and humanities - http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities
Very useful service dedicated to discovering, evaluating and cataloguing online resources in the humanities, and providing online access to these records. It is updated regularly and contains extensive links.

Voice of the Shuttle - http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp
A general resource for the study of the humanities, with selection of links for many areas of medieval studies, including links to images, texts, conferences, publications, etc.

Retimedievali
Le principal guide italien sur l'Internet pour les études médévales. Donne accès à des ressources variées : articles de revues, bibliographies, liste de sites médiévistes, calendrier des colloques et séminaires...
http://www.storia.unifi.it/_RM/default.htm

Mediaevum
Un site indépendant allemand qui offre des ressources considérables : annuaire des médiévistes allemands, des institutions de recherche et d'enseignement, des musées, bibliothèques et archives ; banques de données et informations bibliographiques, calendrier des principaux congrès et colloques ; textes et manuscrits sur l'Internet…
http://www.mediaevum.de

The Warburg Institute Gateway- http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/mnemosyne/Gateway.htm
This site contains links to webpages on a variety of medieval and classical topics, and lists of related works in the library of the Warburg Institute.

The Global Middle Ages - http://www.laits.utexas.edu/gma/portal/
This is the website of three ambitious initiatives: the Global Middle Ages Project (GMAP, pronounced "g-map"), the Mappamundi cybernetic initiative ("mappamundi" = "map of the world"), and the Scholarly Community for the Globalization of the Middle Ages (SCGMA, pronounced "sigma"). Each initiative brings together a cluster of scholars, universities, institutes, and centers who are working toward the goal of transforming how we see and understand the world across macrohistorical time: a thousand years of history, literature, technology, cultural encounters and crossings, ideas, movement, and change. The gmap site is concerned with the details of the pedagogical project 'The Global Middle Ages', mappamundi aims to gather and coordinate the best of online/digital projects scattered across the web and SCGMA is an online site for the scholarly community for the globalization of the Middle Ages.
As yet, there is little content available on the any of the websites.


 

General interest:

Medieval Sourcebook - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
Main source for medieval texts online. Organized by Fordham University, the Internet Medieval Sourcebook contains links to English translations of key texts, including sources available in Spanish and French.

Project Gutenberg - http://promo.net/pg/
More than 13,000 electronic texts available on the internet. Not specifically medieval, but a useful all-round resource.

Scholar's Lab– University of Virginia - ww2.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab
Not purely medieval in focus, this is an on-line archive of tens of thousands of SGML and XML-encoded electronic texts and images with a library service that offers hardware and software suitable for the creation and analysis of text, some of which are available only to University of Virginia affiliates.

The Internet Classics Archive - http://classics.mit.edu/
Searchable database of 441 texts in English translation (mostly Greco-Roman authors, but also some Chinese and Persian).

Christian Classics Ethereal Library - http://www.ccel.org/
Searchable database of Christian writing from the earliest period onwards.

Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (ARLIMA) - http://www.arlima.net/
This is a bibliographic website on medieval texts and authors, mostly in French but latin and other western European languages are not excluded.

British Academy Lectures - http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/index.cfm
Some of the British Academy Lectures (not exclusively medieval) have been recorded and put online. The link to the audio broadcasts is on the left hand side.

Europäischen Totentanz-Vereinigung - http://www.totentanz-online.de
Website dedicated to the study of totentanz or the danse macabre. Includes a listing of films including danses macabres.



English:

The Wessex Parallel WebTexts Project - http://www.soton.ac.uk/~wpwt/wpwt/project.htm
An electronic anthology of Middle English works in prose and verse, together with background material for use in teaching. Each edition will normally include a short introduction, a colour reproduction of the MS, the Middle English text, a Modern English translation, notes, a full glossary, and a booklist. Annotated translations of some longer Middle English works will also be provided, as well as supplementary material.

Anglo-Saxon Index at Trinity College , Cambridge - http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/users/sdk13/asindex.html
Contains links to a range of materials for the study of Anglo-Saxon culture.

Dictionary of Old English - http://www.doe.utoronto.ca/
The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first centuries (A.D. 600-1150) of the English language. The DOE complements the Middle English Dictionary (which covers the period A.D. 1100-1500) and the Oxford English Dictionary, the three together providing a full description of the vocabulary of English. One third of the Dictionary--seven of the 22 letters of the Old English alphabet--has been published, and approximately half of the total entries have been written to date.

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature - http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
Not specifically medieval, The Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.

AHRC National Research Training Scheme in English Language and Literature - http://ies.sas.ac.uk/nrts/
The Scheme aims to develop and provide access to subject-specific research training for all UK-registered MPhil/PhD students in English Language and Literature, Palaeography and the History of the Book. Our Research Training Events Portal provides information about events being offered by specialists across the UK, and allows all UK-registered MPhil/PhD students to enquire about and register for events online. The AHRC award supports of the development and administration of this national collaborative Scheme which is hosted by the Institute's Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, and is supported by several partner institutions, including the IMS at Leeds, across the UK.

Norton Anthology of English Literature - https://www.wwnorton.com/nael/NOA/welcome.htm
The Norton Online Archive is an ongoing project that at present includes more than 150 fully edited texts, ranging from the Middle Ages through the Victorian Period. These texts were included in previous editions of the Norton Anthology, and are intended principally as a supplement to the new Seventh Edition.

Early English Books Online - http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.

Geoffrey Chaucer's weblog- http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/
I here neyther that ne this, for when my labor doon al ys and have made al my rekenynges I goon hom to my hous anoon and, also domb as any stoon, I sitte at another book tyl fully daswed ys myn look. Certes, I oghte to get outte more. Thou kanst fynde myn feede for liveiournale at the username 'chaucerhathblog,' sum swete soule hath sette yt vp for me.

The Middle English Compendium - http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/m/mec
This has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.

TOEBI: Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland - http://toebi.org.uk/
The webpage of TOEBI, the professional organisation of Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland. The organisation aims to promote and support the teaching of Old English in British and Irish Universities, and to raise the profile of the Old English language, Old English literature and Anglo-Saxon England in the public eye. The website contains information on joining TOEBI, details on meetings and conferences, and a good Anglo-Saxon links/resources webpage.



French:

The ARTFL Project - http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/

Editions en ligne de l'Ecole des chartes - http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/
The Ecole des chartes has made available on the Internet several databases of their collections. Of interest to scholars of the Middle Ages and Early Modern period are: Le Cartulaire blanc de Saint-Denis , L'édit de Nantes et ses antécédents (1562-1598), Esprit des livres, and Estampes de l'Ecole des chartes.

International Medieval Society, Paris/Société Internationale des Médiévistes, Paris - http://www.ims-paris.org/
Contains links to a range of materials for the study of medieval France and beyond.

The MARGOT website - http://margot.uwaterloo.ca
This site offers electronic versions of French literary texts in the following areas:
The Campsey Project: an electronic corpus of Anglo-Norman verse hagiography (1100-1400)
Debating the Roman de la rose: A Critical Anthology - Excerpts from the Roman de la rose in the original and in English translation
Women Writers of the Ancien Régime

Medfrench - http://www.leeds.ac.uk/french/medfrench/
A software package created to prepare students for the study of medieval texts in Old French. Although it requires the knowledge of Modern French, the package is straightforward and easy to use, with grammatical and historical notes, and practice excercises.

Société internationale Alain Chartier / International Alain Chartier Society - http://people.hsc.edu/alain/
The goal of the IACS is to foster international collaboration and research on the author and royal secretary. This is the main website of the society, and includes information about upcoming events and publications.



Greek/Byzantine:

Dumbarton Oaks Electronic Texts - http://www.doaks.org/publications/doaks_online_publications.html
Selected Dumbarton Oaks publications are being presented on the web in an effort to increase access to the material. The full text and illustrations are available using Acrobat Reader. Single copies may be printed for individual use.




Scandinavia:

Saganet - http://sagnanet.is/
The Saganet website contains images of works of Old Icelandic literature - page by page, manuscript and printed, dating from the 13th century through the year 1900. These works include the entire range of Icelandic family sagas. They also include a very large portion of Germanic/Nordic mythology (the Eddas), history of Norwegian kings, contemporary sagas and tales from the European age of chivalry. A great number of manuscripts contain Icelandic ballads, poetry or epigrams.

Database of Nordic Neo-Latin Literature - http://www.uib.no/neolatin/
A searchable database of Latin-language literature from Scandinavia.



Irish:

CELT – the online resource of Irish history, literature and politics - http://www.ucc.ie/celt/
Texts in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English are presented in immediately usable form and accompanied by introductions, translations (where possible and necessary), and scholarly bibliographies. Images will be an integral part of text presentation and texts will be accompanied, where useful and possible, by graphics, maps, line-drawings etc.



Text-specific sites:

ARTFL Project – Multilingual Bibles - http://efts.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/public/bibles/
Multilingual Biblical texts in a searchable format.

Gutenberg digital - http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/
Web-based version of the Göttingen Gutenberg Bible, along with Model Book and Notary Instrument, presented by the University of Göttingen .

The Electronic Grosseteste - http://www.grosseteste.com/
The Latin works of Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1170-1253), accompanied by materials relating to Grosseteste's life and the thirteenth century may also be found here. Access is freely available to all users, although some parts of the site will require registration.

Electronic Beowulf - http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm
The Electronic Beowulf is an image-based edition of Beowulf, the great Old English poem surviving in the British Library in a composite codex known as Cotton Vitellius A. xv. In addition to digital images of the Beowulf Manuscript, Electronic Beowulf includes images of Cotton Vitellius A. xv, indispensable eighteenth-century transcriptions, copies of the 1815 first edition with early nineteenth-century collations of the manuscript, a comprehensive glossarial index, and a new edition and transcript, both with search facilities.

The Ancrene Wisse Project - http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Projects/EETS/
Early English Texts Society project to provide a translation, reproductions, and transcriptions of the relevant sections of three important early manuscripts of the text.

Wulfstan’s Homilies - http://webpages.ursinus.edu/jlionarons/wulfstan/Wulfstan.html
This electronic edition of the Old English eschatological homilies is designed to bring together Wulfstan's writings on the last days and his sources in an easily accessible format. It includes newly edited texts and new translations of the five homilies, fully glossed texts of each homily, and transcriptions of the manuscripts in which they are preserved, combined with the Latin and Old English sources and analogues which pertain to Wulfstan's work and a bibliography of primary and secondary materials.

The Confessions of Augustine: electronic edition - http://www.stoa.org/hippo/
This document is an on-line reprint of Augustine: Confessions, a text and commentary by James J. O'Donnell. Each book of the text has a link to introductory commentary on that book, and each section of the text has a link to detailed comments on the section. Links within the commentary connect not only to the section of text directly being annotated, but also to other parts of the text and commentary. Footnotes in the commentary appear at the end of each book; the footnote numbers are links from the commentary text to the footnote and from the footnote text back to the commentary. Where possible, links have been provided to the texts of classical works and Biblical passages cited in the commentary. Links at the end of each book of the text and commentary allow navigation to the next book or the previous one of text, commentary, or both together.

The Dartmouth Dante Project - http://dante.dartmouth.edu/
The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.

The Princeton Dante Project - http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/pdp/
An annotated electronic text of Dante's Comedy and minor works for instructional and scholarly use. It includes the text of the Comedy in both Italian and English (facing translation); an Italian and English voice recording of the poem; the Doré and Nattini illustrations for the Comedy; maps and diagrams; Toynbee's Dante Dictionary; and historical, philological, visual, and interpretive footnotes.

Dante's Monarchia - http://www.sd-editions.com/Monarchia/index.html
An online sample / preview of the digital edition (DVD-ROM) of Dante's Monarchia containing Prue Shaw's edited text and translation of Dante's treatise on political theory, supported by full transcripts of the text of all twenty manuscripts and of the 1559 editio princeps , together with digital images of all pages, many of them newly made in high-resolution full colour. A full word-by-word collation shows all variants at every word, viewable in either the original manuscript spelling or in the standardised form found in the edited text. Variant search and variant map features offer new ways of exploring the textual tradition. Editorial commentaries analyse the relations among the surviving texts, presenting the editorial rationale which guided the choice of readings contained in the edited text. Throughout, the publication interface provides access to every word in every version, to the variants on every word, and to tools and commentaries permitting exploration of the different versions.

Medieval History Texts in Translation - http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/weblearning/MedievalHistoryTextCentre/medievalTexts.htm
Selected translated texts on 'The Norman Kingdom of Sicily', 'The Crusades', and 'The Pontificate of Gregory VII'. These are used in the teaching of medieval history modules in the School of History, University of Leeds, so should be regarded as 'works in progress', liable to change with the modules. Almost all of the texts appear in English translation for the first time, with one or two exceptions. The links all lead to Microsoft Office Word documents, which may cause issues for a small number of users.

The Taxatio Database - http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/taxatio/info.html
From the website 'A taxatio is an assessment for taxation and the taxatio with which this database is concerned is often called the Pope Nicholas IV taxatio because it was carried out on the orders of that pope. For nearly 250 years virtually all ecclesiastical taxation of England and Wales was based on this extremely thorough and detailed assessment. It is a unique source for the medieval period: no other complete survey of its kind survives for any part of medieval Europe. An edition of one of the many extant manuscripts of the assessment was produced by the Record Commission in 1802: Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae Auctoritate P. Nicholai IV, ed. T.Astle, S.Ayscough and J.Caley. All the detailed material concerning the values of ecclesiastical benefices in this printed edition (the 'spiritualities' part of the assessment as distinct from the 'temporalities' part) has been entered onto the database.' The database is easy to understand, but you do need to know specific church names, as it is not possible to browse the tables.

The Anglo-American Legal Tradition - http://aalt.law.uh.edu/
Documents from Medieval and Early Modern England from the National Archives in London. This site now contains about 2.1 million frames of documents from the U.K. National Archives from the years 1218 to 1650. There is no charge for access and documents can be browsed on-line or downloaded in quantity by ftp.
The main document series on the site are CP40 (court of common pleas plea rolls), KB27 (court of king's bench plea rolls), KB26 (king's bench and common pleas plea rolls from Henry III), E159 and E368 (exchequer memoranda rolls), C33 (chancery orders and decrees), CP25(1) (feet of fines), DL5 (duchy decrees and orders), and REQ1 (court of requests orders and decrees). Examples of other series are also available and will be augmented. The AALT website runs through the O'Quinn Law Library at the University of Houston under a non-commercial license from the U.K. National Archives.
This website is straightforward and easy to use, and also contains sample transcriptions to help users understand the scripts involved, as well as advice on reading court cases.

MIRABILE , Digital Archives for Medieval Latin Culture - http://www.mirabileweb.it/
Mirabile is an online content aggregator for medieval resources that enables users to search in the highly-specialized-databases promoted during the last three decades, by the Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino ( search in Mirabile ). In addition, Mirabile lets you get access to the online digital versions of the scientific publications from Edizioni del Galluzzo ( search in riviste on line ). Using a quick and powerful web application you could browse for periodicals and articles, as well as search in the vast amount of records coming from: Medioevo latino (MEL) , the well known bibliographical bulletin, with more than 250.000 records; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Latinorum Medii recentiorisque Aevi (BISLAM) , the most influential authority list for names of latin medieval authors, with more than 15.000 entries and 80.000 variants; and Compendium Auctorum Medii Aevi (CALMA) (currently only a limited number of issues), the authoritative index of medieval authors and works, with more than 3.000 records. There is a charge for accessing full records and articles.

Henry III Fine Rolls Project - http://www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/cocoon/frh3/index.html
A window into English history, 1216 - 1272. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and combining King's College London's Department of History and Centre for Computing in the Humanities with The National Archives and Canterbury Christ Church University, The Henry III Fine Rolls Project is a unique and pioneering enterprise which democratises the rolls by making them freely available in English translation with a sophisticated electronic search engine, the first medieval source to be treated in this way. The project is making the rolls intelligible, investigatable and freely available in the following ways: An English translation of the rolls in electronic form on the KCL website, with indexes and a search facility; Printed volumes of the same translation, with full indexes, published by Boydell and Brewer; Digital facsimile images of the rolls on the KCL website. In addition the Project Team is writing a book about the historical value of the rolls and their place in English royal government.

Codex Sinaiticus Bible- http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/
Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. Its heavily corrected text is of outstanding importance for the history of the Bible and the manuscript – the oldest substantial book to survive Antiquity – is of supreme importance for the history of the book. The Codex Sinaiticus Project is an international collaboration to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time. Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars, conservators and curators, the Project gives everyone the opportunity to connect directly with this famous manuscript.



Art history:

International Center of Medieval Art - http://medievalart.org/
International Center of Medieval Art website, with links to medieval art history resources on the internet.

The Index of Christian Art - http://ica.princeton.edu/
Contains information about subscribing to the online database of the Index, as well as information about current research, including the Mills-Kronborg Collection of Danish Church Wall Paintings, and conferences.

The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland - http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/
The aim of the project – still in progress - is to photograph and record all the surviving sculpture, volunteer fieldworkers describe, measure and photograph Romanesque sites. The project editors convert the raw materials of their research into an electronic archive. Church plans, generously made available by the Church Plans Online project, are included where available as an additional visual aid.

Exeter Cathedral Keystones and Carvings - http://hds.essex.ac.uk/exetercath/index.html
A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculptures & Their Polychromy, written by Avril K. Henry and Anna C. Hulbert. This is an illustrated introduction to, and explanatory catalogue of all the figurative sculpture of the medieval building. This extensive web-site is designed primarily for art historians and medievalists, but can also be useful for the non-specialist.

Medieval Art in Pisa - http://www2.alfea.it/
Italian site dedicated to the art and architecture of medieval Pisa.

History of Architecture - http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/ha/html/medieval.html
This History of Architecture Web site is designed to support undergraduate education, from introductory art and architectural history surveys to advanced courses on specific art historical periods and themes. The project has been funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Education Programs, with additional support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Office of the Provost, Columbia University. This link takes you to the medieval section.

The Cambridge Illuminations: virtual exhibition - http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/cambridgeilluminations/
This is a representative selection of images from some of the most sumptuous manuscripts displayed in the Cambridge Illuminations exhibition (Fitzwilliam Museum, 26 July - 30 December 2005). Includes flash animation of how manuscripts are made.



Manuscripts:

Catalogue of Digitized Manuscripts - http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/
This site was designed to enable users to find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web. Straightforward and easy to use, and seems to be comprehensive.

The Digital Scriptorium - http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/
The Digital Scriptorium, a searchable image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts.

‘Formatting the Word of God’ - http://www.smu.edu/bridwell/publications/ryriecatalog/titlepg.htm
Online form of a Bridwell Library exhibition about the manuscript and print history of the Bible that serves as a good introduction to the topic.

The Roman de la Rose - http://rose.mse.jhu.edu/
This site is a prototype testing ways to present medieval manuscripts in digital form. We have scanned six manuscripts of the Roman de la Rose from the collections of the Walters Art Museum (W. 143), the Pierpont Morgan Library (M. 948), the Bodleian Library of Oxford University (MS. Douce 195, MS. Douce 332 and MS. Selden Supra 57), and the J. Paul Getty Museum (MS. Ludwig XV 7). All folios of these manuscripts may be viewed and compared, and a portion of the text is searchable.

The Aberdeen Bestiary - http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/bestiary.hti
The Aberdeen Bestiary, written and illuminated in England around 1200, is of added interest since it contains notes, sketches and other evidence of the way it was designed and executed. The entire manuscript has been digitised using Photo-CD technology, thus creating a surrogate, while allowing greater access to the text itself. The digitised version, offering the display of full-page images and of detailed views of illustrations and other significant features, is complemented by a series of commentaries, and a transcription and translation of the original Latin.

The Medieval Bestiary - http://bestiary.ca/
Animals and the imagery of beasts in the Middle Ages.

St Alban’s Psalter - http://www.abdn.ac.uk/stalbanspsalter/
Contains commentaries on each page that explain aspects of the iconography and codicology, as well as essays explore selected aspects of the book and its historical context in greater detail.

Hill Museum and Manuscript Library - http://www.hmml.org/
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) preserves manuscripts, printed books and art and makes them available to students, researchers, and visitors. HMML is the home of the world's largest collection of manuscript images and of The Saint John's Bible, a handwritten, illuminated Bible in modern English.

The Lindisfarne Gospels - http://www.lindisfarnegospels.org/
The website of the Lindisfarne Gospels, with links to the British Library, Facsimile Verlag, and wider Lindisfarne and Northumbria links.

Bergandal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts - http://www3.sympatico.ca/bergendalcoll/
The Bergendal Collection is the largest library of mediaeval codices (manuscripts) in private hands in the Americas. There are at most half a dozen private manuscript libraries which are as large in Europe .

The City and the Book, International Congresses - http://www.florin.ms/congress.html Website with links for proceedings of international congresses entitled, “The City and the Book,” held in Florence in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2007.

Theleme: Techniques pour l'Historien en Ligne: Études, Manuels, Exercices - http://theleme.enc.sorbonne.fr/
L'École des chartes présente ici le premier état d'une entreprise d'enseignement en ligne, appelée à s'étoffer dans l'avenir: une initiation aux diverses sciences et aux méthodes de l'histoire, comprenant trois volets.

Anglo-Norman Online Hub Introduction to Paleography - http://paleo.anglo-norman.org
Interesting website which requires pop-ups in order to work.

LATIN manuscript BOOKS BEFORE 1600 - http://www.mgh-bibliothek.de/kristeller/index.html
An online (searchable) version of the Kristeller List of the Printed Cataogues and Unpublished Inventories of Extant Collections of Latin Manuscripts before 1600.

The Medingen Manuscripts - http://research.ncl.ac.uk/medingen/public_extern/
'This project will bring together virtually the scattered late medieval library of the Cistercian nunnery of Medingen. Between the internal reform of the convent in 1477 and the advent of the Lutheran Reformation in the neighbouring town Lüneburg in 1526, the Medingen scriptorium developed into a major source of Latin and Middle Low German prayer-books. The nuns produced an astonishing wealth of manuscripts in which they expanded the Latin liturgy with vernacular prayers, lay-songs and meditations and which they illuminated - for themselves as well as for the noblewomen of the neighbouring town.' Many features of the database are freely accessible (introduction, bibliography, list of sigla, short descriptions of the manuscripts and a flash presentation of the main features of the database). At the moment, access to the manuscript database is restricted. If you would like to access the database for scholarly purposes, please contact Henrike Lähnemann or Andres Laubinger [ medingen-mss@ncl.ac.uk ]. In particular, the flash presentation is an excellent introduction to the database and its features.

Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) - http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en/
From the website "The purpose of the Codices Electronici Sangallenses (Digital Abbey Library of St. Gallen) is to provide access to the medieval codices in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen by creating a virtual library. The project will begin with a two-year pilot to digitally reproduce a selection of the finest illuminated codices at such a high resolution that researchers cannot only work with the manuscripts but also perform detailed (art historical or otherwise) analyses of the miniatures in the codices. Codex metadata (primarily scholarly descriptions of the codices) will be managed in a database system and referenced with the digitalised items through various access mechanisms." So far 144 manuscripts have been digitised. When the manuscript pages are maximised, the photographs are so detailed that score marks and even the texture of the pages are clearly visible.

e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland - http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en
This is follow-up project of CESG - Codices electronici Sangallenses (Digital Abbey Library of Saint Gall). It provides a single point of access for Swiss manuscripts on the internet, with high resolution digital images and over 140'000 facsimile pages. There are currently 380 complete manuscripts from 16 Swiss manuscript collections, but the site is being continually updated. There are manuscript descriptions, browse and search functions (for the manuscript descriptions), and the site is accessible in German, French, Italian and English. The site is easy to use and understand, and the level of magnification is impressive.



Archaeology:

Council for British Archaeology - http://www.britarch.ac.uk/
Website for the Council for British Archaeology, a good starting point for information about archaeology in Britain and the rest of the world.

Society for Medieval Archaeology -http://www.medievalarchaeology.org/
Searchable database of their publication, Medieval Archaeology Papers, as well as information on monograph series, regular newsletters, and further medieval archaeology links. In addition, to celebrate the Society's 50th anniversary, the first fifty volumes of Medieval Archaeology have been released online. The link to access these is available on the left hand side of the main Society for Medieval Archaeology website.

Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe - http://odur.let.rug.nl/arge/
Dutch-based website containing links to evaluated Internet resources (mainly web pages, but also other resources such as discussion lists) concerning European archaeology.

Ename Center For Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation - http://www.enamecenter.org/
The Ename Center was founded in 1998 as a non-profit association to develop and disseminate expertise relating to the public interpretation and sustainable development of archaeological sites, museums, historical monuments and landscapes both in Flanders and at partner sites throughout the world.

Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture - http://www.dur.ac.uk/corpus/index.php3
The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (CASSS) is a project to identify, record and publish in a consistent format, the earliest English sculpture dating from the 7th to the 11th centuries. Much of this material was unpublished before the work began, but it is of crucial importance as pointing to the earliest settlements and artistic achievements of the Anglo-Saxon/Pre-Norman English. It ranges from our earliest Christian field monuments (free-standing carved crosses), and innovative decorative elements and furnishings of churches, to humble grave-markers. This site contains a (currently incomplete) searchable database of sculpture records and images of the sculptures which are organised by the published volumes, and not searchable. There are, as yet, no direct weblinks between the records and the images, so each needs to be found separately, and the database is initially confusing for the casual user. There is also a very useful 'Grammar of Anglo-Saxon Ornament', which explains how the sculptures are classified and made. In summary, while the design and layout of the website is not perfect, the content is extremely useful.

Celtic Inscribed Stones Project- http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/
CISP is undertaking a collaborative, interdisciplinary study of Medieval Celtic inscriptions. One of its main objectives is the compilation of an accessible, comprehensive and authoritative database of all known inscriptions. By bringing this material together in one place and making it readily available our goal is to turn what is a largely untapped resource into usable material. The scope of the project is the Celtic-speaking regions of the early middle ages, (Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Brittany, the Isle of Man, and parts of western England, in the period approximately AD 400-1100). Included are all stone monuments inscribed with text, whether in the Celtic vernacular or Latin, in the Roman alphabet or ogham (but excluding runic inscriptions). This site and database are easy to use, with plenty of expanatory material and even a downloadable .pdf manual for more detailed information on the database. It is possible to browse indexes of the sites of stones, the names of the stones, indexes of the personal names mentioned in inscriptions and maps of the sites. The database also allows inscription (and more complex) searches. In general this is a very useful site; users should note however, that the site does not seem to be regularly maintained.



Libraries, heritage organisations & museums:

24 hour museum - http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/
Guide to UK museums and galleries.

The Pierpont Morgan Library - http://www.morganlibrary.org/
Contains information about the collection, with images from selected manuscripts.

The National Archives - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Britain's historical records.

The British Library - http://www.bl.uk/index.shtml
British Library’s website, with links to catalogues of manuscript collections, information about exhibitions, and various internal links.

The Bibliotheque Nationale de France - http://www.bnf.fr/
Website for the BN, with links to their manuscript collection along with a searchable database of iconographic elements.

The Bodleian Library - http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/
With links to online catalogue and electronic resources.

Bede’s World Museum - http://www.bedesworld.co.uk/
With information on Bede and early medieval Northumbria, as well as details on visiting the museum. Good links.

Royal Armouries - http://www.royalarmouries.org/
Contains information about collections, exhibitions, research, publications, and outreach programmes.

English Heritage - http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/
English Heritage website, organization that maintains a number of key medieval sites in Britain. Portal for English National Monuments Record.

Historic Scotland - http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/
Cares for and interprets archaeology, monuments and buildings in Scotland.

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland - http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/
Information about buildings, sites and monuments in Scotland. Online database.

Cadw - http://www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/
Official guardian of Wales's historic environment.

National Monuments Record of Wales - http://www.rcahmw.gov.uk/
Information about buildings, sites and monuments in Wales.

St Teilo's Church - http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/1191/
Website of the National Museum Wales with information on the medieval St Teilo's Church.


Gender studies:

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index - http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Books written by a single author are not indexed here.

Monastic Matrix - http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/
A scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE.



Britain and Ireland:

The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) - http://www.pase.ac.uk/
PASE is a relational database comprising a structured register of persons that includes, in principle, every recorded individual who lived in, or was closely connected with, Anglo-Saxon England from 597 to 1042.

Medieval English Towns - http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/towns.html
The aim of the Medieval English Towns site is to provide historical information about cities and towns in England during the Middle Ages, with particular but not exclusive emphasis on medieval boroughs of East Anglia and on social, political and constitutional history. A growing selection of primary documents (translated into English) relevant to English urban history is included.

London's Past Online a bibliography of London history - http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/lpol/
Produced by the Centre for Metropolitan History in association with the Royal Historical Society Bibliography and funded by the AHRB, London's Past Online is a free online bibliography of published material relating to the history of the Greater London area.

English Monastic Archives - www.ucl.ac.uk/history2/englishmonasticarchives/
The English Monastic Archives Databases comprise a systematic guide to the types and current locations of documents generated by medieval English monasteries, but not, as a rule, to the information contained within those documents.

British History Online - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.

The Electronic Sawyer - http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/eSawyer.99/eSawyer2.html
An online version of the revised edition of Sawyer's Anglo-Saxon Charters section one [S 1-1602].

Richard II's Treasure - http://www.history.ac.uk/richardII/index.html
The treasure roll of Richard II, compiled in 1398/9, offers a rare insight into the magnificence of a late medieval English king. The roll, unknown until it was rediscovered in the 1990s, describes in exceptional detail the crowns, jewels, and other precious objects belonging to the king and to his two queens, Anne of Bohemia and Isabelle of France . This website brings the treasure to life through images - of the roll, of Richard himself and of many exquisite objects.

Mapping Medieval Chester: place and identity in an English borderland city c.1200-1500- http://www.medievalchester.ac.uk/index.html
This project brings together scholars working in the disciplines of literary studies, geography, archaeology and history to explore how material and imagined urban landscapes construct and convey a sense of place-identity. The focus of the project is the city of Chester and the identities that its inhabitants formed between c.1200 and 1500. A key aspect of the project is to integrate geographical and literary mappings of the medieval city using cartographic and textual sources and using these to understand more how urban landscapes in the Middle Ages were interpreted and navigated by local inhabitants. One particularly innovative dimension of this is the project's use of information technologies both as a means of exploring these 'mappings' of medieval Chester, for example through the use and development of a Geographical Information System (GIS) to create a map of Chester as it was c.1500, and as a means of widening access and public interest in Chester's medieval past and in medieval urban studies generally by linking literary and cartographic sources in digital media. The project will thus not only extend our understanding of how placed-identities were forged in the medieval city through local association and relationships with imagined and material urban landscapes, but also foster transferable methodologies and working models for integrating visual and textual digital data sources in humanities computing projects.


France:

Menestral - http://www.menestrel.fr
Primary portal for French medieval studies on the web. Contains medieval sources in translation, as well as sites and images, with additional links to other medieval resources.

Literature of the French Middle Ages - http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/middle.ages.html
Good basic English-language website with numerous primary texts and secondary information, about French medieval art, architecture, and literature.

Université Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne, Centre d'Études des Textes Médiévaux - http://www.uhb.fr/alc/medieval/
Contains information about the current research of the CETM, French translations of medieval texts, and links to other websites.



Italy:

Reti Medievali - http://www.retimedievali.it/
Primary portal for Italian medieval studies on the web. Available in English, German, Italian and French, it contains links to medieval sources (in Latin), encyclopedia-style entries designed for teaching (in Italian), as well as information on current research and journal publications.

Instituto Storico Italiana per il Medioevo - http://www.isime.it/
Contains link to the Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi.

Otfried Lieberknecht’s Webpage for Dante Studies - www.lieberknecht.de/dante/welc_old.html
Starting point for research on Dante, with links to both primary and secondary source material available in a searchable, online format.

The Leeds Centre for Dante Studies Podcast - http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/cdspodcast.htm
The Centre for Dante Studies, University of Leeds will run a podcast, which can be subscribed to freely from anywhere in the world. The podcast is designed both to enrich undergraduates' study of Dante, and to be of interest to a broader audience. The Leeds Dante podcast will offer regular short items on three major areas; a series of brief commentaries on short passages selected from the Commedia; interviews with scholars about their recent work on Dante; reviews of recent publications of interest in Dante studies.

Dante Online - http://www.danteonline.it/italiano/home_ita.asp
General website on Dante, run by Societa Dantesca Italiana. The website includes online texts of Dante's works; information on his life and the manuscripts of his works; and an analytical and classified bibliography of the studies on Dante.



Germany:

Mediaevum - http://www.mediaevum.de/
Primary portal for German medieval studies online. Primary texts, teaching tools, bibliographic information, and links to specific websites on a range of disciplines.

Monumenta Germaniae Historica - http://www.mgh.de/
Institute of research into the European Middle Ages, based in Munich. Contains links to a digital version of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica.

University Library, Karlsruhe – Online Catalogue - http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html.
For bibliographical searches in the German-speaking world, not specifically medieval.

Perspicuitas - http://www.uni-due.de/perspicuitas/ 
Online journal of medieval language, literature and cultural studies.

Internationalen Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (IASL) - http://www.iaslonline.de/
Main source for book reviews, broadly useful but not specifically medieval.



Spain and Portugal:

PhiloBiblon - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/PhiloBiblon/
PhiloBiblon is a bio-bibliographical database of early texts produced in the Iberian Peninsula. Contains links to the Bibliografía Española de Textos Antiguos (BETA), Bibliografia de Textos Antigos Galegos e Portugueses (BITAGAP), and Bibliografia de Textos Catalans Antics (BITECA).

The Library of Iberian Resources Online - http://libro.uca.edu/
A joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas , its book list is principally drawn from recent, but out-of-print university press monographs. In addition, the collection includes a number of basic texts and sources in translation. These are presented in full-text format and reproduce all the matter included in the original print version. The collection focuses upon peninsular history from the fifth to the seventeenth centuries.

The Cantigas de Santa Maria - http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/
General online resource for the study of the cantigas, with images from facsimiles, transcriptions, and related links.

El Camino de Santiago - http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/santiago/iagohome.html
Good introductory website, run by the University of California - Los Angeles, to the study of the pilgrimage to Santiago . Organized around resources for classroom use.

Medievalismo - http://www.medievalismo.org/
From the website: Medievalismo - Site of Medieval History, tries to be a point of contact, meeting and reflection on Medieval History. In the network from 1998 (1 of May), now, we initiated a new way, more dynamic and modern. With ambition and the necessity to adapt us to the changes of articles of incorporation, historical and technological of century XXI. We want to be a reference of utility, communication and interactivity, between the professionals and interested of the Medievo and the New Technologies. For it, in this space, you will find all the information necessary to be able to complete your works and restlessness. Let us do of History a referring one for the society.



Byzantine:

Byzantium : The Byzantine Studies Page - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/index.html
Resources for Byzantine Studies online, from Fordham University. Information about conferences, teaching resources, academic programmes, secondary and primary texts, images, and music.

Dumbarton Oaks’ Byzantine Studies - http://www.doaks.org/research/byzantine/
Contains information about conferences, the Dumbarton Oaks collection (with selected images), fellowships, research library facilities and catalogue, publications, the Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database of the 8th-10th Century, and related internet links.



Music:

Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music - http://www.diamm.ac.uk/
An online resource for the study of fragments and complete manuscripts of European Medieval Polyphonic Music.

Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum - http://www.music.indiana.edu/tml/start.html
An evolving database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

The CMME Project - http://www.cmme.org/
The CMME Project is 'a scholarly initiative to offer free online access to new, high-quality early music scores produced by today's leading experts.' At present, there are not many scores completed, but even what is there is extremely good and allows one to manipulate the data (toggling old clefs to modern or ancient and modern accidental systems, or editorial text underlay with the sources' presentation of the text). It has a superb board of emininent scholars and is designed to interact with several other large net-based music projects.

CANTUS: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant - http://publish.uwo.ca/~cantus/
The purpose of CANTUS is to assemble and publish indices of the chants found in manuscript and early printed sources for the liturgical Office. Since the inception of this project over a decade ago, it has been understood that a CANTUS index of a particular source will normally be used by a scholar who possesses a microfilm, a printed facsimile or digital images of that source (or access to the actual document). It has been recognized, however, that the project has attracted a much wider audience of chant scholars and enthusiasts who have discovered the many ways in which the indices can be used without reference to a microfilm or facsimile, although it can take a while to get used to.



Drama:

REED - Records of Early English Drama - http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/index.html
REED’s mission is to locate, transcribe, and edit all surviving documentary evidence of drama, minstrelsy, and public ceremonial in England before 1642. Website contains performance texts, modern editions, and a useful page of links to the study of drama.



Religion and philosophy:

Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion - http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/default.aspx
A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, websites, bibliographies, listserv discussion groups, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc.

Mediaeval Logic and Philosophy - http://pvspade.com/Logic/
This Web site is maintained by Paul Vincent Spade at Indiana University. It is intended for anyone interested in mediaeval logic and philosophy broadly construed.

TRADITIO: Studies in Ancient and Medieval Thought, History and Religion - http://www.fordham.edu/traditio/
Website of Traditio, journal for medieval studies produced by Fordham University . Has links to full-text articles, organized geographically and chronologically.

Monastic Matrix - http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/
A scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE.

Rete Vitae Religiosae Mediaevalis Studia Conectens - http://www.vita-religiosa.de/
The international research in the field of medieval monasteries and religious orders is hard to grasp, particularly since it is scattered in many individual research centres. Mostly one even fails to overlook the studies undertaken for a particular order, and this in spite of the fact that a comparative approach towards the history of medieval religious orders is still a desideratum even in modern research. With RE.VI.RE.S. we hope to provide a helpful mean to solve this problem.

Analecta Cartusiana - http://monsite.wanadoo.fr/AnalectaCartusiana
Since 1970 the Analecta Cartusiana has been the sole international series on the Carthusian Order, with more than 290 volumes having been published. This website includes some 100 links to Carthusian related websites, up-to-date bibliographical information, upcoming colloquia and much more .If you have information you wish to share - or need to have - on the subject of the Carthusian Order do not hesitate to contact them. Further information: jean-christ.HENEL@wanadoo.fr

Military Martyrs - http://www.ucc.ie/milmart/#Intro
The primary purpose of this site is to enable people to begin to explore the cult of the military martyrs during the late antique and early medieval periods by:

  • providing original translations of many of the primary sources which have yet to be translated into English as well as making earlier translations which have gone out of copyright available online;
  • summarizing the state of current research into the origin and growth of the cult of each these martyrs;
  • providing a bibliography of specialist works in respect of each martyr.


  • Oseney Abbey Studies- http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/pot/oseney/oseney.html
    Online book on Oseney Abbey. People are invited to download the book for free at the URL above, where you will find details of the content, file types available (.pdf and .lyx) and the size of the files. Unfortunately, the front cover and back cover are not available to users from outside the University of Leicester.

    Monastic Wales - http://monasticwales.org/
    In an attempt to identify more firmly Wales's place on the monastic map of Europe, this new large-scale project seeks to establish a comprehensive monastic history of medieval Wales, the findings of which will be made available to scholars and students, as well as the wider public, both electronically and in print.



    Medieval topography:

    Orbis Latinus - http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html
    Resource for medieval place-names. A digitization of the 1909 source, and will reflect the geographical and political reality of that time. For more detailed information, please consult the more recent multi-volume edition: Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, Orbis Latinus; Lexikon lateinischer geographischer Namen des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1972).

    Roman Map of Britain - http://www.romanmap.com

    Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe - http://www.euratlas.com/summary.htm
    Atlas with 21 maps depicting Europe at the end of each century from AD 1 to AD 2000.

    Mapping the Realm - http://www.qub.ac.uk/urban_mapping/gough_map/
    English cartographic constructions of fourteenth-century Britain.

    Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/
    The TGN is a structured vocabulary currently containing around 1,102,000 names and other information about places. Names for a place may include names in the vernacular language, English, other languages, historical names, names and in natural order and inverted order.



    Medieval chronology:

    Eccleciastical Calendar - http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html
    Calculates the ecclesiastical calendar for years after AD 325, for New and Old Orthodix Calendars and the Western Calendar. Also contains a list of Orthodox and Western Easter dates listed in the Julian Calendar or the Gregorian Calendar, 1875-2124, and a table of the frequency of the difference between the dates of Orthodox and Western Easter, AD 1583 to AD 3000.



    Epigraphy:

    Epigraphisches Forschungs- und Dokumentationszentrum - http://www.epigraphica-europea.uni-muenchen.de/
    German-language website dedicated to epigraphy, or the study of inscriptions. 'Epigraphica-europea' in addition to information on the work of the Epigraphical Research and Documentation Centre (EFDZ) offers an introduction to epigraphy, a dictionary of epigraphical terminology and links to related sites on the web.



    Numismatics:

    Department of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge - http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/coins/
    Online exhibition,listing of coins, and coin search functions.



    Medieval Societies and Associations:

    TEAMS – The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages - http://www.teamsmedieval.org/about/index.html
    The website for The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages, with links to their teaching texts and online library of Middle English texts (note: not available in full electronic versions).

    Ecclesia et Societas Workshop - http://www.es-ken.net/index.php or http://www.es-ken.net/modules/siteinfo2/ (English language version)
    A research group on the history of Medieval and Early Modern Europe, based in the University of Tokyo, which holds regular discussion meetings.

    International Society of Anglo-Saxonists - http://isas.us/
    A gateway for those interested in English history, archaeology, literature, language, religion, society, and numismatics between the years c. 450 and 1100 AD. The site also contains information on how to become a member of The International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, an events and conferences listing, and a webpage devoted to Anglo-Saxon web resources.

    Richard III Foundation, Inc. - http://www.richard111.com/
    The Richard III Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit educational organization that was founded to promote the life and times of King Richard III, his contemporaries and his era and to attempt to cast a new light on the misconceptions of his life and reign. The Foundation is active in many diverse areas. Our categories encompass the fields of research, scholarship, publishing, exhibitions, public relations, study days, symposiums and other activities to attempt to bridge the gap between the 15th century and today.

    Medium Aevum - http://mediumaevum.modhist.ox.ac.uk/index.shtml
    The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature exists to advance education by the encouragement and dissemination to the scholarly community and wider public of research on medieval languages and literature. The Society does this primarily through its publications – the journal, Medium Ævum , and its monograph series. In addition, the Society sponsors conferences and has established an essay prize.

    Société des Historiens Médiévistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur Public - http://shmesp.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/
    Elle vise à développer et établir des contacts réguliers entre les médiévistes afin qu'ils puissent se rencontrer, discuter, confronter leurs idées, être informés; organiser la profession d'enseignant-chercheur pour être mieux en mesure de discuter avec les représentants des organismes de tutelle et des autres organisations d'historiens spécialistes; favoriser le développement de la recherche et des études médiévales, permettre aux jeunes chercheurs de présenter leurs travaux devant leurs pairs, faire connaître la médiévistique française grâce à un annuaire et à un site internet.

    Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East - http://www.staff.u-szeged.hu/~capitul/sscle/
    The Society enables its members to exchange information about research and publications relevant to the history of the crusades and the Latin East. Membership is open to all those with a scholarly interest in the Crusades and the Latin East.

    The Yorkshire Archaeological Society - http://www.yas.org.uk/content/about.html
    The Society exists to promote the study of Yorkshire's past. The Yorkshire Archaeological Society was founded in 1863 (as the Huddersfield Archaeological and Topographical Association) to promote interest in the history and archaeology of the Huddersfield area. In 1870 it expanded its interest to cover the whole of Yorkshire, and today it is the main society in this field for the historic county. Throughout its history the Society has been active in publishing articles on many aspects of Yorkshire's past and transcripts of important Yorkshire records. The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal was first published in 1869, and the Record Series in 1884. The Society also encourages interest in Yorkshire's past and promotes the study of its history through events, lectures and outings.

    Soper Lane - http://www.et-tu.com/soper/cgi-bin/index.cgi
    Soper Lane is a group of women who have studied the working lives of fifteenth century silkwomen.The function of the group is to bring to life as accurately as possible the work of the 15th century English silkwomen.

    British Brick Society - http://www.britishbricksoc.free-online.co.uk/
    The Society, founded in 1972, promotes the study and recording of all aspects of the archaeology and history of bricks, brickmaking and brickwork. Members are drawn from many backgrounds - geologists, archaeologists, schoolteachers, artists, historians, brickmakers, bricklayers, architects, engineers, etc. Some have a professional interest in a particular aspect of the subject, for others membership is an extension of a general interest or hobby. All share a fascination for the history and development of the manufacture and use of bricks.

    Ecclesiastical History Society - http://www.ehsoc.org.uk/
    The Ecclesiastical History Society (EHS) aims to foster interest in, and to advance the study of, all areas of the history of the Christian Churches. Membership is open to scholars who are professionally engaged in the study and/or teaching of ecclesiastical history at universities or other institutions of higher education in the UK and abroad, as well as individuals who have a general interest in the subject. Institutions may also take out membership.

    Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft e.V - http://www.wolkenstein-gesellschaft.com/
    The Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft is an international association of medievalists. Goals: Research in the culture of the European Late Middle Ages. Special focus: Oswald von Wolkenstein (ca 1376/77-1445), knight and courtly singer,
    one of the foremost poets of German literature. The fifteenth-century South Tyrolean nobleman, Oswald von Wolkenstein, is now recognized by a growing number of critics as the most talented poet of his age, a genius capable of imbuing traditional literary forms with new content and fresh vigor.

    The Eckhart Society - http://www.eckhartsociety.org/
    The Eckhart Society is dedicated to the study and promotion of the principles and teachings of Meister Eckhart, a medieval theologian, philosopher and mystic. The Society is committed to the highest possible standards in scholarship and spirituality – which was also the goal of the Meister. It welcomes all, no matter of what faith or none, to whom Meister Eckhart is of interest.

    Meister-Eckhart-Gesellschaft - http://www.meister-eckhart-gesellschaft.de/meg-engl.htm
    The Meister-Eckhart-Gesellschaft is an international society for the promotion of the study and research into the life, writings, and reception of Master Eckhart (c. 1260-1328) in an interdisciplinary context. Meetings of the society will be held annually in March or April around eastern. The first meeting took place on April, 9-10, 2005 in Erfurt and the following years in Strasbourg (2006), Würzburg (2007), Trier (2008) and Regensburg (2009). The principal publication organ of the society will be a yearbook, the " Jahrbuch der Meister-Eckhart-Gesellschaft ", which will be open to the whole range of disciplines that have an impact on Eckhart studies.

    PLATINUM LATIN - https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/shanzer/www/Platinum_Latin_Web.htm
    Platinum Latin values the philology and the close study of texts in the original medieval Latin. It also seeks to promote the study of Latin by authors from late antiquity onwards, both the "high" and the "low," the technical and the literary. It does this by organising sessions at various international conferences. All topics are considered from the theological and legal to the erotic. Most of the current members work on Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, but they are delighted to consider abstracts from later periods, provided they fit our panels' themes.

    Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship - http://hosted.lib.uiowa.edu/smfs/mff/
    SMFS promotes the study of the Patristic Age, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women's studies, and feminist studies. It actively promotes and supports interdisciplinary exchanges at all levels of higher education across the world. Members represent every continent and every academic discipline within the arts & humanities.

    ANZAMEMS (Australian and NZ Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies) - http://www.anzamems.arts.uwa.edu.au/
    ANZAMEMS exists to promote medieval and early modern studies in Australia and New Zealand. It was formed in 1996 by the merger of ANZAMRS (Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Renaissance Studies) and AHMEME (Australian Historians of Medieval and Early Modern Europe).

    International Piers Plowman Society - http://www.piersplowman.org/
    The International Piers Plowman Society (IPPS) was formed at the 2nd International Langland Conference held in Asheville, North Carolina in 1999. IPPS oversees publication of The Yearbook of Langland Studies ( YLS ) , sponsors sessions at the International Congresses at Kalamazoo, MI and Leeds, UK; organizes international conferences on Piers Plowman ; and maintains this website, which includes information on these activities and a searchable database of the annual annotated bibliographies published in YLS .

    Society for the Medieval Mediterranean - http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/smm/
    The society aims to foster cross cultural investigation, create a forum of ideas and encourage debate on the influence of Islamic culture on the medieval Mediterranean.

    Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages - http://gustavus.edu/groups/ssbma/
    The Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages was formed several years ago to promote the area of medieval biblical studies, to provide a forum for the discussion of themes and topics related to that subject, and to share current research. The society sponsors several sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, held in May of each year. The Society's business meeting, held during the Congress, determines the focus of the following year's sessions, and solicits participation in the Society's activities.

    MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application) - http://myweb.csuchico.edu/~asmittman/mearcstapa/
    MEARCSTAPA is an organization committed to the scholarly examination of monstrosity as an area of social and cultural interest to past and present societies. Our inter/trans/post/pre-disciplinary approach allows us to explore the significance of monstrosity across cultural, temporal, and geographic boundaries. We are interested in a multivalent approach using materials on monsters and monstrosity from literary, artistic, philosophical, and historical sources.

    Viking Society for Northern Research - http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/viking/
    Founded in 1892 as the Orkney, Shetland and Northern Society, or Viking Club. The Society was founded to promote interest in the Scandinavian North, its literature and antiquities.

    Haskins Society for Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Angevin and Viking Research - http://www.haskins.cornell.edu/
    T he Haskins Society is an international scholarly organization dedicated to the study of Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and early Angevin history as well as the history of neighboring areas and peoples. The Society holds its annual conferences in November at Georgetown University; additionally, it organizes and sponsors scholarly sessions at the International Congress of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan in early May of each year and at the Leeds International Medieval Congress each summer.

    Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages - http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/medica/
    The purpose of Medica is to assist those interested in healing in the Middle Ages. As this is an interdisciplinary topic, they invite members from all fields and specialisations. The website provides information on the society, and includes news and resources relevant to those studying healing in the Middle Ages.

    Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society - http://mrds.eserver.org/
    The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society is an academic association of scholars and other persons interested in medieval and Renaissance drama whose activities include organizing annual meetings, sponsoring long-range research projects, and publishing material of interest to the Society including Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama.



    General links pages:

    CARA Data Project - http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/web_pages/online_resources/online_resources_cara.html
    The CARA Data Project, which is maintained by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at Arizona State University , is a compilation of information on North American centres, programs, committees, libraries, and regional associations. Appended to the Data Project are links to centres and associations outside North America.

    The Medieval Page - http://www.efn.org/~acd/medievalpage.html
    Independent list links to medieval studies online. Not exhaustive, but useful.

    Medieval Resources - http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/medieval/medieval.ebbs.html
    Contains a fairly extensive set of links ranging from discussion lists, texts from and about the medieval history, archaeology, architecture, and science, and links to databases and libraries.  

    Literary Resources - Medieval
    http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/medieval.html
    List of medieval literary resources available online, with links.

    Digital Medievalist - http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/
    The Digital Medievalist Project is an international web-based Community of Practice for medievalists working with digital media. It was established in 2003 to help scholars meet the increasingly sophisticated demands faced by designers of contemporary digital projects. The DM (The Digital Medievalist) is a peer-reviewed on-line journal for technology and medieval studies, and links to it can be found on the main home page.

    Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto – Medieval Links - http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/medieval/
    Extensive selection of resources for medieval studies online.

    Medievalismo - http://www.medievalismo.org
    General portal for medieval studies. ' Medievalismo - Site of Medieval History, tries to be a point of contact, meeting and reflection on Medieval History.' The site is currently aimed at the Spanish-speaking academic world. It contains an online journal, Medievalismo Digitial, conference listings, journal listings, extensive links and resources pages, and an international list of medievalists.



    Mailing lists:

    Electronic discussions lists are another major vehicle of communication on the Internet. The following list is by no means exhaustive, but instead indicates what is generally available. A good guide to consult is: George Ferzoco, "Electronic Discussion Lists and Medieval Studies," Bulletin of International Medieval Research 2-3 (1996-97), 1-9.

    ART HISTORY (medart) List owner: Harriet MSonne (hsonne@chass.utoronto.ca) To subscribe, send the message: subscribe medart-l your name to: listserv@listserv.utoronto.ca

    ARTHURIAN STUDIES (arthrunet) List moderator: Judy Shoaf (jshoaf@clas.ufl.edu) To subscribe, send the message: subscribe arthurnet your name to: listserv@morgan.ucs.mun.ca

    CHAUCER List owner: Thomas Bestul (tbsetul@uic.edu) To subscribe, send the message: subscribe chaucer your name to: listserv@listserv.uic.edu

    ENGLAND: CULTURE AND HISTORY [PRE-1100] (ansax-l) List owner: Bill Schipper (schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) To subscribe, send the message: subscribe ansax-l your name to: listserv@wvnvm.wvnet.edu

    FEMINIST STUDIES (medfem-l) List owners: Willis Johnson (willis@socrates.berkely.edu) and Linda Wright (lwright@cac.washington.edu) To subscribe, send the message: subscribe medfem-l your name to: listproc@u.washington.edu

    GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES (medgay-l) List owner: RClark (medgay-l-request@ksuvm.ksu.edu) To subscribe, send the message: subscribe medgay-l your name to: listserv@ksuvm.ksu.edu

    HISTORY (mediev-l) List owners: Lynn Nelson and Rob Helmerichs (medowner@raven.cc.ukans.edu) To subscribe, send the message: subscribe mediev-l your name to: listserv@ukans.edu

    RELIGION (medieval-religion) List owners: George Ferzoco, Caroyn Muessig and Ian Wei (medieval-religion-request@mailbase.ac.uk) To subscribe, send the message: join medieval-religion your name to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk

    SCIENCE (medsci-l) List owner: medsci-l-request@brownvm.brown.edu To subscribe, send the message: subscribe medsci-l your name to: listserv@brownvm.brown.edu

    TEXTS: PHILOLOGY, CODICOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY (medtextl) List owner: Charles Wright (cdwright@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu) To subscribe, send the message: subscribe medtextl your name to: listserv@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu

    Please direct suggestions for other links to be listed here to Axel Müller.

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