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Ancrene Wisse

Ancrene Wisse Preface is a prototype digital edition from the Early English Text Society. This trial electronic edition of the Preface to Ancrene Wisse is based on a non-electronic edition of the full text currently being prepared for publication by EETS. It includes most of the components of a traditional EETS edition, but the electronic edition also includes a translation (no longer provided by most EETS editions), and reproductions and transcriptions of the relevant sections of three important early manuscripts.  

Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (Arlima)

The website contains today over 900 pages of bibliographies about medieval authors and works, the whole content being freely available.

Digital Medievalist

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.

Editions en ligne de l'Ecole des chartes

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.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale)

Intute: Arts & Humanities

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

IMB offers full and partial texts of medieval literature in English translations. Users select texts by their original language.

Labyrinth  

Users of Labyrinth will find access to electronic sources on a wide range of topics about the Middle Ages. There are several ways to use Labyrinth. Users with specific interest can go directly to the search option. Those unsure about what they want can pick one of the many subjects listed on Labyrinth’s homepage. Labyrinth’s homepage also provides access to professional organization dedicated to the Middle Ages.

Manuscripta Mediaevalia

The Medieval Review (formerly Bryn Mawr Medieval Review)

Since 1993, The Medieval Review (TMR; formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review) has been publishing reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies, a field it interprets as broadly as possible. The electronic medium allows for very rapid publication of reviews, and provides a computer searchable archive of past reviews, both of which are of great utility to scholars and students around the world.

The Medici Archive Project

The archive was established by Grand Duke Cosimo I in 1569, and offers the most complete record of its kind in Renaissance and Baroque Europe. The archive consists mainly of letters. The project aims to produce documentary sources for the arts and humanities, with particular emphasis on the documentation of Jewish History, and the History of Costume and Textiles. The project also aims to pioneer technological innovation in the fields of archive management and humanities research. The site offers highlights from the archive, in the form of its Document of the Month pages. Selected documents appear both in Italian and in English translation, with suggestions for further reading and research questions suitable for undergraduates working with archive material. Background information on the historical context for each document is also available.

Ménestrel: Médiévistes sur l'Internet 

Ménestre, an initiative of Urfist de Paris, brings together a wealth of materials (texts, images, Internet links, etc.) for the study of the Middle Ages on the Internet.

NetSerf–The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources

NetSerf is an Internet search engine for all things medieval and links to all sort of web sites and not just scholarly ones. Links can be found by clicking on subjects of interest listed on the Netserf homepage.

ORB—Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

ORB is an academic site intended to help scholars and serious students of the Middle Ages in research and teaching. Nonetheless the site does offer some resources of interest to the non-specialist. ORB offers a variety of resources: online textbook resources for medieval studies in easy-to-read English translations; excerpts and full-text of medieval texts in English translations; and resources for teaching the Middle Ages.

PECIA

French publisher whose aim is to provide direct access to sources, mainly manuscripts, for the study of medieval history by making new and reprinted editions available to medievalists. The website provides information about PECIA's current editorial programmes: Archives Testamentaires du Moyen Age; Le Livre Médiéval; and Sources Manuscrites d'Histoire Médiévale. The books can be ordered online. There are also links to bibliographies on manuscripts, university masters, copyists, and booksellers in medieval Britanny, as well as more general bibliographies about the medieval book.

Stanford University Library Medieval Pages

TEAMS- Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages

TEAMS offers online resources for the teaching of the Middle Ages at all levels. The MSS (Medieval Studies for the Schools) page lists resources for elementary and secondary education, both for teachers and students.

University of Florida Libraries Medieval Pages

University of California, Berkley's Online Medieval & Classical Library

Voice of the Shuttle

WESS (Western European Studies Section of College and Research Libraries) Medieval and Renaissance Web

Wessex Parallel WebTexts

Wessex Parallel WebTexts is a project which aims to link research and teaching by producing scholarly editions freely available on the World Wide Web for student use. Its website offers an electronic anthology of Middle English works in prose and verse, together with background material for use in teaching.  

Yale University Library Medieval Pages

 

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